196 



Cory on the Birds of the West Indies.. [April 



shading into brown as it nears the throat; belly white, with an 

 olive tint upon the flanks; wings and tail black, edged with white; 

 the tertials, coverts, and base of primaries heavily marked with 

 white; bill black, under mandible bluish; legs black. 



Female: — Above olive green; below paler, shading into white on 

 the bellv; the sides and flanks pale olive green; the stripe over 

 the eye but faintly indicated, and of an ashy color; wings and tail 

 dark brown, with an olive tinge on the feathers, showing markings 

 of dull white as in the male, but much narrower. 



Length, 5.95; wing, 3; tail, 2.50; tarsus, .80; bill, .50. 

 Habitat. Bahamas. 



Spindalis pretrei (Less.). 



Tanagrafyctrei'L,¥^%^.'Kc\.Zoo\. 1839, p. 102. — Gray, Gen. Bds. I, p. 



365 (1846). 

 Tauagra miiltieolor et Tauagra zena D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. 



Cuba, Ois. p. 74 (1840). 

 '^Spindalis zena et pretrei l^F. Consp. I, p. 248 (1850.) 

 Sfindalis pretrei Cab. ]. f. O. 1855, p. 476.— Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 



Hist. Vn, p. 307 (i86q). — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba. I. p. 



237 (1865) ; ib. J. f O. 1872, p. 419. 

 Spindalis zena Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 63%iS7o). 

 Spindalis prefrii Sc\.. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 21 (1873). — Bouc. 



Cat. Avium, p. 244 (1876).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. u (1885); ib. 



Revised List Bds. W. I. p. 11 (1886). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Head black; a superciliary stripe reaching to the 

 nape, and a stripe reaching from the base of the under mandible 

 down the sides of the throat white; a narrow patch of white on the 

 chin; throat yellow, separated from the white stripe by black; 

 chest and cape chestnut, joining on the sides ; back yellowish olive ; 

 rump chestnut; underparts grayish white, showing a yellow line 

 down the middle of the belly; wings and tail black, the feathers 

 marked with white; wing-coverts heavily marked with white; a 

 broad patch of chestnut on the carpus; bill and feet dark. 



Female: — The black on the head of the male, replaced by dull 

 green ; sides of the throat grayish ; rump slightly tinged with yellow- 

 ish ; underparts olive gray, palest on the bell\'. 

 Length $ (skin), 5.60; wing, 3; tail, 2.2^. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Spindalis multicolor (Vieili,.). 



Tauagra multicolor Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 776. 



Spindalis multicolor ^v. Consp. I, p. 240 (1850).— Salle, P. Z. S. 1857' 

 p. 231.— Gray, Handl. Bds. 11, p. 63 (1870).— Scl. & Salv. Nom. 



