2IO Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [April 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage dull olive; whole of breast and 

 throat black : a blackish tinge sometimes perceptible on the fore- 

 head; bellj dull gray, shading into olive on the flanks; surface 

 of wrings and tail oli\e ; primaries, secondaries, and tail-feathers 

 brown, showing olive on the outer webs; some males have only a 

 small patch on the chin black, others have nearly the entire under- 

 surface black, the extent of the color varying greatly, perhaps ac- 

 cording to the age of the bird. 



Female: — Resembles the male, but lacks the black of the throat, 

 which is i-eplaced by dull olivaceous gray. 



Length, 4.10; wing, 2.05; tail. 1.60; tarsus, .54; bill. .40. 

 Habitat. Bahaiifa [slaiids and Antilles. 



After a careful examination of numerous specimens of the so 

 called E. marchi^ from Jamaica, and comparing them with a 

 series of some seventy specimens oi E. bicolor^ I fail to see an}' 

 differences sufficient to separate them. The imderparts of E. 

 marchl are somewhat browner ; the back is also darker ; but 

 this stage of plumage occurs in tlie young and the female of 

 E. bicolor. 



Euetheia adoxa (Gosse). 



Spermophila adoxa Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 253 (1S47). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 



1862, p. 196. 

 Phonipara adoxa '• M.\rch. P. A. P. 1S63, p. 297."— A. & E. Newton, 



Handb. Jamaica, p. 104 (iSSi).— Cory, Revised List Bds. W. L p. 



12 (1S86). 



Sp. Char. — " Irides dark brown ; feet purplish ; beak horn-colour, nearly- 

 black above ; whole upper parts olive brown ; under parts grayish 

 white; sides and vent fawn color. Length, 45; expanse, 6<^ ; flex- 

 ture, 2; tail, i 6-10 (nearly); rictus, 7-20; tarsus, 7-10; middle 

 toe, 7-10." (Gosse, 1. c, orig. descr.) 



, Habitat. Jamaica. 



I have never seen a specimen of this so-called species; judging 



from the description, it would seem possible that it might prove 



to be the female of E. hi color. 



Genus Passerina Vieill. 



Passerina Vieillot. Analyse (1S16). 



'' Passerina ciris (Linx.). 



Emberiza ciris Linn. Kong. Sv. V^et. Akad. Hand. 1750, p. 278, tab. vii, 

 f I ; ib. Syst. Nat. L p- 313 (1766). 



