1 886.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. C C 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage dull blue; a stripe of dull black from 

 the bill to the eje, showing slightly on the forehead; a large patch 

 of rufous on the throat; quills and tail dark brown, feathers edged 

 with blue; bill black; feet horn color. 



Female: — Top of head bluish gray, shading into grayish olive on 

 the back ; wings edged with pale brown; underparts gray, faintlv 

 streaked; tail brown. 



Length (skin), 5; wing, 3; tail, 1.75; tarsus, .58. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Genus Chlorophanes Reich. . 



Chloro/>ha//rs '-Kkich. Handb. p. 234 (1853)." 



Chlorophanes atricapilla (Vieill.). 



Certhia spiza var. .' Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 476 (1788). 



Ccereba atricapilla Vieill. Nouv. Diet. XIV, p. 50. 



Ccereba spiza Max. Eeitr. Ill, p. 771 (1S31). 



Ccereba atricapilla Bp. Consp. I, p. 400 (1850). 



Dacnis atricapilla ScL. Contr. Orn. p. 108 (1851). 



Chlorophanes atricapilla "Reich. Handb. p. 234 (1853)." — ScL. Cat. Am. 



Bds. p. 52 (1862). — Baird, Rev. Am. Eds-, p. 163 (1864). — Gray. 



Handl. Bds. I, p. 118 (1S69).— Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 



16 (1873) (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 9 (18S5). 

 Dacnis spiza Cab. Mus. Hein. I, p. 95 (1850). — Burm. Syst. Ueb. Ill, p. 



15- 

 Nectarina mitrata Licht. Doubl. p. 15. 



Sp. Char. Male: — Head and cheeks black, rest of plumage, including 

 throat, bright bluish green ; quills and tail dark brown, edged with 

 greenish ; under surface of wing steel gra)'. 



Female: — Entire plumage light green, brightest on the back, and 

 palest on the underparts ; under surface of wing dull white. 



Length (skin), 5: wing, 2.75; tail, 2; tarsus, .75. 



A male bird of this species in m\ cabinet is labelled Cuba, and 

 Messrs. Sclater and Salvin (1. c.) record it from there. It is prob- 

 able that if the localities given are correct, the specimens in ques- 

 tion were escaped cage birds. 



Family HIRUNDINID^. 

 Genus Progne Roie. 



Progne Boie. Isis. 1S26. p. 971. 



