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Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [April 



Spindalis nigricephala (Jameson) 



Tanagra nigricephala ]\ME.&oii, Ed. N. Phil. Journ. XIX, p. 213.. — GossE, 



111. Bds. Jam. pi. 56. 

 Spindalis l>ilineatus ]ard. & Selb. 111. Orn. s. n. pi. 9. 

 Tanagra zena GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 231 (1847). 

 Tanagra zenoides Des Murs, Icon. Orn. pi. 40. 

 Spindalis nigricephala Bp. Consp. I, p. 240 (1850). — ScL. P. Z. S. 1856, 



p. 230; ib. 1S61, p. 74; il). Cat. Am. Bds. p. 77 (1862). — Albrecht, 



J. f. O. 1862, p. 196.— March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 



296. — Gr.\y, Handl. Bds. II, p. 63 (1870). — ScL. & Salv. Nom. 



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



A. & E. Newton, Ilandb. Jamaica, p. 104 (i8Si). — Cory, List Bds. 



W. I. p. It (1885). 



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

 bill to the nape, white; a stripe of white passes down the sides of 

 the throat; chin white, not reaching the orange of the breast; back 

 yellowish green ; the central portion of the breast bright orange ; 

 rest of underparts greenish vellow, sometimes orange yellow , quills 

 and tail black; most of the primaries, secondaries, and coverts 

 edged with white. 



Female: — Top of the head dark olive; light olive green on the 

 back; yellowish green on the rump and upper tail-coverts; throat 

 and cheeks gray ; underparts washed with orange yellow, commen- 

 cing at the upper breast and brightest on the breast and belly ; sides 

 and flanks olive green. 



Length, 7; wing, 4; tail, 3. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Genus Piranga Vieiei,. 



Piranga Vieillot. Ois. Am. Sept. I, p. iv (1807) ; ib. Analyse, p. 32 (1816). 



" Piranga rubra (Lixn.). 



Fringilla rubra LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, p. iSi (1758). 



Muscicapa rubra LiNN. Syst. Nat.?, p. 326 (1766). 



Tanagra cestiva Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 889 (1788). 



Pyranga (Fsiiva D'Orb. La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 76 (1840). — 

 Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (1860) (Cuba).— 

 GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 237 (1S65) ; ib. J. f. O. 1872, 

 p. 421 (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 11 (1885). 



Phcenicosotna cesti-oa Gundl. J. f. O. 1855, p. 477. 



Accidental in Culia and the Bahama Islands. 



