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Sp. Char. ^Superciliary stripe lacking, or extremely indistinct in front 

 of the eye: frontal region dull grayish black; back smoky black, 

 sometimes showing a sliglit olive tinge when held in the light; 

 throat dark slate color; lower part of rump showing olive green: 

 a delicate penciling of white on the outer webs of primaiies. 

 Length (skin), 4. 85; wing, 2.50; tail. 1.60; taisus, .65. 



Habitat. Dominica^ Antigua. Barbuda. Nevis, St. Eusta- 

 tius, Guadeloupe, and Saba. 



C. siindevalll Ridgw. is probably a pbase of plumage of this 

 species, the yellow superciliarv stripe changing \\\\\\ age, as in 

 C. ha/ianivora . 



Certhiola barbadensis Baikd. 



Ccrthiola niart/nicand Scl. P. Z. S. 1S74, p. 174. 



Certhiola barbadensis Baikd, Am. Nat. VII, p. 612 (1873). — Bb. BwR. & 



Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I. p. 42S (1874).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. 



p. 9 (1885).— Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, pp. 2S, 30 (18S6). 



Sp. Char. — "Upper part of throat slate black, bordered laterally by a graj 

 rictal patch, and below bj' a yellowish white patch; separating the 

 black from the yellow of the jugulum. Upper parts as in C. domin- 

 icana, but superciliary stripe broadest and most sharply defined an- 

 teriorly." (Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, p. 28 (1S85.) 

 Length, 3.75: wing. 2.40: tail, 1.75. 

 Habitat. Barbadoes. 



Certhiola martinicana Reich. 



Certhia martinicana s. saccliamwra Briss. Orn. Ill, p. 611 (i860). 

 Certhia flaveola var. p. Linn. Svst. Nat. I. p. 1S7 (1766). — Gmel. S\st. 



Nat. I, p. 479(1788). 

 Certhiola martinicana Reich. Handb. I, p. 252 (1853). — Cassin, Pr. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1864, p. 271. — Cab. J. f. O. 1865, p. 412. — 



Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. i::o (1869). — Finsch, Verhandl. Zool. 



Botan. Gesells. Wien, XXI. p. 78S (1871).— Scl. P. Z. S. 1S71, p. 



269. — Scl. & Salv. Nom. iVvium Neotr. p. 17 (1S73). — Bd. Bw'r. 



& Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I. p. 428 (1S74).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. I, p. 487 (1S78).— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Cltib, V. 



p. 166 (1880).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 9 (18S5). — Ridgw. Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. VIII, pp. 28-30(1885). 

 Certhiola albigiila Bp. Comjjt. Rend. 1S54, P- -.S9- — Tayor, Ibis, 1S64. p. 



167. — Ne\vton, Zool. Record, 1864, p. 76. 



Sp. Char. — Sides of the throat grayish black; a patch of white on the 

 middle of the throat to breast: underparts bright yellow, a tinge of 



