i8S6.] 



Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



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Accidental in Cuba and Tamaica. 



Habia melanocephala (Swains.) is recorded from Cuba 

 {Hedymeles melanocephala Cabanis, J. f. O. 1856, p. 9). It 

 has no other West Indian record, and has not been cited by later 

 authors. 



Family FRINGILLID^. 



Genus Loxigilla Less. 

 Loxigilla Lesson, Traite, p. 443 (1S31). 



Loxigilla violacea (Linn.). 



Loxia violacea Linn. Syst. Nat. L P- 306 (1766). 



Pyrrhula violacea Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 254 (1847). 



Pyrrhula robinsonii Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 259 (1847). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 



1862, p. 196. 

 Pyrrhulagra violacea Bp. Consp. I, p. 493 (1850). 



r.oxigilla violacea Salle, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 231. 



— Albrecht, J. f. O. 1S62, p. 196. — Scl. 



Cat. Am. Bds. p. 102 (1862). — March, Pr. 



Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 297. — Gray, 



Handl. Bds. II, p. 104 (1870).— Scl. & 



Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 27 (1873). — 



RiDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 250 (1878)- 



— Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 85 (1880) ; ib- 



Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI, p. 152 (1881).— 



A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 104 (1881). — Tristram, Ibis, 



1884, p. 168. — Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 69 (1885) ; ib. 



List Bds. W.I. p. 12 (1S85). 



Spermophila violacea Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 119 



(1S59). 

 Loxia (^Pyrrhulagra^ violacea Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 



93 (1866). 

 Loxigilla violacea p. bahamcnsis RiDGW. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 250 

 (187S). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Entire plumage black, showing a slight brownish tinge 

 upon the quills; throat, crissum and crescent over the eve reddish 

 brown ; bills and legs black. 



Fefnale: — Underparts graj', with a tinge of olive green upon the 

 back; below ash, lightest upon the belly, showing a tinge of olive 

 upon the breast and sides ; quills with fine edgings of dull white; 



