iS86.] Cory oti the Birds of the West Itidtes. IQC 



Genus Calliste Boie. 

 Calliste Boie, Isis, 1S26, p. 97S. 



Calliste cucullata (Swains.). 



Aglaia cucullata Swains. Orn. Dr. pi. 7. 



Calliste cucullata Gray, Gen. Bds. p. 366, sp. 9 (1844-46). — Bp. Consp. I, 



p. 234 (1850) ; ib. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1851, p. 140. — Scl. Contr. Orn. 



1851, p. 63; ib. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 253; //;. Mon. Call. p. 45, pi. xx 



(1S57.).— BuRM. Svst. Ueb. Ill, p. 183.— Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 



68 (1870). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 19 (1873).- — Cory, 



List Bds. W. I. Revised ed. p. 11 (1SS6). 

 Calliste versicolor Lawr. Ann. N. Y Acad. Sci. I, p. 153 (1S78) ; ib. Pr. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 190,487 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 



II (1885). 



Sp. Char. JMale: — Top of the head deep chestnut red; upper plumage 

 golden fawn color ; lores black: sides of the head and ear-coverts 

 dark green ; tail black, except the two middle-feathers, which are 

 bluish green, the rest of tail-feathers and quills black, edged with 

 bluish green ; upper tail-coverts bluish green ; underparts pale bluish 

 lilac when held in the light; feathers of the upper throat tipped 

 with gray; under tail-coverts cinnamon. 



Female: — Top of the head lighter chestnut than in the male; rest 

 of upper parts pale green ; underparts as in the male, but paler; 

 under tail-coverts, abdomen, and flanks pale cinnamon. 



Length, 6; wing, 3.30; tail, 2.50 

 Habitat. St. Vincent. 



Genus Spindalis Jard. 



Spindalis "Jard & Selby. 111. Orn. U. S. 1836." 



Spindalis zena (Linn.). 



Friugilla bahamensis Briss. Orn. Ill, p. 168. 



Fringilla zena Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 320 (1766). 



Tanagra zena Bryant, Pr. Bo&t. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. iii (1859). 



Spindalis zena ScL. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 321. — Scl. & Salv Nom. Avium 



Neotr. p. 21 (1873). — Bouc. Cat. Avium, p. 244 (1876). — Cory, Bds. 



Bahama I. p. 92 (iSSo) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 11 (1885). 

 ''Spindalis pretrci Gkk\, Handl. Bds. II, p. 63 (1870)." 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above black; rump, and a broad band over the nape 

 from side of the neck rufous brown, shading into an orange tinge; 

 a superciliary stripe, and a stripe on the sides of the throat from 

 lower mandible and chin white: cheeks black ; throat black, shad- 

 ing into brown upon the breast, with a yellow stripe passing from 

 the chin nearly to the brown of the breast; breast deep yellow. 



