I8S6.J Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. C.X 



olive on the abdomen ; lower lump narrowly banded with olive 

 green; upper parts dull slate color; wing-coverts sometimes 

 slightly tipped with white. 



Length (skin), 4.15 ; wing, 2.28; tail, 1.60; tarsus, .64. Another 

 specimen: Length (skin), 4.35; wing, 2.33; tail, 1.70; tarsus, 68. 

 Habitat. Santa Lucia and Martinique. 



C. Jinschi Ridgw. is probably a pbase of plumage of this spe- 

 cies. Some specimens from Martinique in my collection have the 

 superciliary stripe yellow, and also show yellow on the throat. 

 The locality given where the type specimen of C. Jiiischi was 

 taken is, as Mr. Ridgway suggests, undoubtedly^ incorrect. The 

 same variation in coloring on account of age and season is shown 

 in the San Domingo species C. bananivora. 



Certhiola atrata Lawr. 



Certhiola atrata Lawr. Am. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 150 (1878) ; ib. Pr. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. L p. 4S7 (1878).— Lister, Ibis, 1880, p. 40.— 

 Cory, List. Bds. W. L p. 9 (18S5).— Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus- 

 VIII pp. 28, 30 (1885). 



Sp. Char. — Entire plumage dull black; a tinge of olive is perceptible on 

 the underparts, and on the rump. 



Length (skin), 4.05; wing, 2.35; tail, 1.50; tarsus, .56. 

 Habitat. St. Vincent and Grenada. 



Mr. Ridgway expresses the opinion that this is perhaps a me- 

 lanotic varietv of C sacchariiia. 



Genus CcEreba Vieill. 

 Cozreba Vieillot. Ois. Am. Sept. 1807. 



'' Coereba cyanea (Linn.). 



Certkia cyanea LiNX. Syst. Nat. I, p. 188 (1766). 



Ccrthiu cyanogastra Lath. Ind. Orn. I, p. 295 (1790). 



Coercba cyanea Vieill. Ois. Dos. pis. 41, 42, 43. etGal. Ois. pi. 176 (1820- 

 26). — Max. Beitr. Ill, p. 761 (1831). — Bp. Consp. I, p. 399 (1850). — 

 Thienem. J. f. O. 1857, P- 152- — Burm. Syst. Ueb. Ill, p. 150. — Scl. 

 Cat. Am. Bds. p. 52 (1862).— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 116 (1869).— 

 Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 16 (1873). — Bd. Bwr. & 

 Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, p. 425 ( 1874).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. 

 p. 9 (1885). 



Ccereba cyanea D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 124 (1840). 

 — Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 131 (1850). 



