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Sp. Char. Male: — Head and back bright olive green, shading into gray on 

 the rump; wings showing the outer webs of the primaries and sec- 

 ondaries green, lacking on the first three primaries, or if showing at 

 all, appearing in a form of a narrow pencilled line; the wing-coverts 

 olive green ; throat white, showing a dash of dark brown on either 

 side; a whitish superciliary line ; cheeks and ear-coverts olive green; 

 breast and underparts dull huffy white, tinged slightly with olive, 

 and showing faint pencilled lines of pale brown; tail blackish; bill 

 black at the base, pale at the tip. 



Female: — Similar to the male ; the dark brow-n streak on the sides 

 of the throat lacking in some specimens, brownish olive in others, 

 but apparently always paler than in the male. 



Length (skin), 8; wing, 3.75; tail, 3.50; tarsus, .85; bill, .75. 

 Habitat. Guadeloupe and Martinique. 



Genus Guiraca Swains. 

 Guiraca Swainson, Zool. Journ. III. p. 350 (1827). 



Guiraca caerulea (Linn.). 



Loxia ccEfulea Linn. Syst. Nat. L p. 306 (1766). 



Coccoborus ccvrulciis Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 61 (1850). — Cab. J. f. O. 1856, 



p. 9 (Cuba). 

 Guiraca ccerulea Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860) 



(Cuba). — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 2S5 (1S66) ; ib. 



J. f. O. 1874, p. 126 (Cuba).— Cory, List. Bds. W. I. p. 12 (18S5). 



Recorded from Cuba. 



Genus Habia Reich. 

 Habia Reich. Av. Syst. Nat. 1S50. pi. xxviii. 



Habia ludoviciana (Linn.). 



Loxia ludoviciana Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 306 (1766). 



Guiraca ludoviciana GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 259(1847). — Brewer, Pr. Bost. 



Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860) (Cuba).— Albrecht, J. f. O. 



1862, p. 196 (Jamaica). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Tamaica, p. 104 



(1881). 

 Coccoborus ludovicianus Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 59 (1850). 

 Hcdymelcs ludoviciana Cab. J. f. O. 1856, p. 9 (Cuba). 

 Goniafhea ludoviciatia Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I. p. 2S6 (1S66) ; 



ib. J. f. O. 1874, p. 126 (Cuba). 

 Habia ludoviciana Cory. List Bds. W. I. p. 12 C18S5). 



