iSS6.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. ^93 



Haiti & San Domingo, p. 6i (1885) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 11 (18S5). 



— Tristram, Ibis, 18S4, p. 168. 

 Eiiphone miisica Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 42 (1850) ? 

 Eitphona inusica Gundl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 476. 



Sp. Char. Male: — Crown light blue, the color extending upon the nape, 

 and slightly upon the sides of the neck; forehead, underparts, and 

 rump brownish-orange ; throat, cheeks, back, and tail bluish black, 

 showing purple reflections, the purple very prominent on the back; 

 a line of purplish black separating the blue and orange of the head 

 and forehead; primaries dark brown, becoming pale on the edges of 

 the inner webs ; bill and feet black. 



Female: — -Underparts yellowish green, becoming yellowish on the 

 throat ; cheeks and line above the forehead dull black; head and 

 nape, extending upon the sides of the neck, light blue; forehead 

 orange brown; back, rump, and wing-coverts olive green; tail dull 

 black, showing a tinge of green upon the feathers; primaries as in 

 the male, except showing an almost indistinct greenish edging upon 

 the outer webs. 



Immature Male: — Forehead pale orange; top of the head grayish 

 blue; back olive green, blotched with dark blue; rump brownish 

 orange ; wings and tail black, some of the tertiaries and coverts edged 

 with olive green; underparts olive green, marked with brownish on 

 the throat; dark orange, shaded with greenish, on the belly and cris- 

 sum ; bill and feet black. 



Length, 4.40; wing, 2.60; tail, 1.80; tarsus, .50; bill, .25. 

 Habitat. Haiti and San Domingo. No species of Euphonia 

 has as vet been taken in Cuba. 



Euphonia flavifrons (Sparrm.). 



Emberiza flavifrons Sparrm. Mus. Carls. IV, No. 92 (5). 



Tanagra flavifrons Lath. Ind. Orn. Suppl. p. 47 ($). — Vieill. Enc. 

 Meth. p. 775. 



Euphone organiste'DK^M. Hist. Nat. Tan. pis. 19,20 (1805). — Vieill. 

 Gal. Ois. Suppl. pi. s. n. (J & ? ). 



Cyanophonia tniisica Bp. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 138. 



Euphonia flavifrons '^yzx.. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 271; Sundev. Oefv. K. Vet. 

 Akad. Fdrh. 1869, p. 5S3. — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 17 

 (1873). — Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 56, 190, 269, 354, 455 

 (187S).— Allen, Bull. Nutl. Orn. Club. V. p. 166 (1880.)— Cory. 

 List Bds. W. L p. II (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of head bright blue, extending to the nape; 

 forehead bright j^ellow, separated from the blue by a bluish black 

 line; back green, shading into yellow on the rump; imderparts 



