i886.] Cory 07i the Birds of Ike West Indies. 20I 



Genus Calyptophilus Corv. 



CalyptopJtilus Cory, Auk, I, p. i (1SS4). 



Calyptophilus frugivorus Corv. 



Phoinicofhilus fi-Kgivorus Cory, Journ. Bost. Zool. Sue. II, No. 4, p 45 



(1SS3). 



Calyptophilus frugivorus Cory, Auk, 

 I, p. 3 (18S4); ib. Bds. Haiti and 

 San Domingo, p. 59 (1S85) ; '''^■ 

 List Bds. W. I. p. 12 (1SS5). 



Sp. Char. J/^ /<•.•— Top of the head 

 brown, shading into ashy on the 

 neck behind the eye : rest of upper 

 parts, including back and upper surface of wings and tail, brownish 

 olive; throat white ; breast white, becoming ashy upon the sides; 

 flanks brownish olive, the olive mixing with white upon the crissum ; 

 primaries and secondaries olive brown, the inner webs edged with 

 very pale brown ; a patch of bright yellow under the base of the 

 wing, extending upon the carpus; eye encircled by a very narrow 

 line of bright yellow, and a spot of yellow in front of the eye, at the 

 base of the mandible; upper mandible dark brown; lower mandible 

 yellowish brown, dai-kest at the base. Some specimens show a spot 

 of yellow upon the middle of the breast, but it is not constant. In a 

 series of fourteen specimens, it is wanting in all but five. 



The female is perhaps somewhat duller, and some specimens 

 appear slightly smaller, but otherwise resembles the male. 



Length, 7.50; wing. 3.70; tail, 3.70; tarsus, i; toe. .82; bill, .75. 

 Habitat. San Dominfro. 



Genus Saltator Vieill. 



Salfator Vieillot, Analyse, p. 32(1816). 



Saltator guadeloupensis Lafr. 



Saltator guadeloupensis Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 167. — Bp. Consp. I, 

 p. 489 (1850).— ScL. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 97 (1862).— Taylor, Ibis, 

 1864, p. 167.— Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 74 (1870).— Scl. & Salv. 

 Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 26 (1873).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, 

 PP- 354> 457 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 12 (1S85). 



Saltator martinicensis Bp. Consp. I, p. 489 (1850).— Gray, Handl. Bds. 

 JI. p. 75 (1S70). 



