iSS6.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 2 I 3 



Ammodramus maritimus (Wils.). 



Fringilla maritiiiia Wils. Am. Orn. IV, p. 68 (181 1). 



Ammodramus maritimus SwAiN.s. Zool. Journ. Ill, p. 328 (1827). — Cab. 

 J. f. O. 1856, p. 7 (Cuba). 



Recorded from Cuba. 



Sicalis BoiE, 182S. 



Genus Sicalis Boie. 



Sicalis flaveola (Linn.). 



Fringilla flaveola Linn. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 321 (1766). 



Fringilla flava Mull. Sjst. Nat. Suppl. p. 164 (1766). 



Emberiza d rasilieusis Gmel. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 872 (1788).— Lafr. etD'ORB. 



Syn. Av. 1837, p. 73. 

 Fringilla brasiliensis Spix, Av. Bras. I, p. 47, pi. 61. — Max. Beitr. Ill, p. 



614(1831). 

 Sicalis brasiliensis TsCH. Faun. Per. p. 215 (1844). — Cab. in Schomb. 



Guian. Ill, p. 679 (1848).— Burm. Sjst. Ueb. Ill, p. 253.— Scl. P. 



Z. S. 1861, p. 74. — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 197. — Taylor, Ibis, 



1864, p. 83. — Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328. 

 Crithagra brasiliensis GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 245 (1S47). — ^P- Consp. I, 



p. 521 (1820). — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Scl. Phila. 1863, p. 298. 

 Sycalis auripectus Bp. Compt. Rend. 37, p. 917. — ScL. P. Z. S. 1855, p. 



159: ib. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 126 (1862). 

 Sicalis Jlava Gray, Handl. Bds. II, p. 84 (1870). — A. & E. Newton, 



Handb. Jamaica, p. 117 (18S1). 

 Sycalis flaveola Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 231 (1871). — ScL. Ibis, 1S72, p. 41. — 



ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 34 (1873). — Cory, List. Bds. 



W. I. p. 13(1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above olive green, slightlj marked on the back with 

 pale streaks ; forehead orange; underparts jellow; wings and tail 

 pale brown, the outer webs of primaries and outer and inner webs of 

 secondaries edged with yellow; tail-feathers edged with jellow. 



Female: — Resembles the male, but much paler; underparts being 

 grajish, tinged with jellow, and under surface becoming white on 

 the belly; orange on the forehead showing verj slightly if at all. 

 Length (skin), 5.50; wing, 2.75; tail, 2; tarsus, .75. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



The specimens described are from Brazil, as I possess none 

 from Jamaica. 



Carduelis elegans (Linn.) is recorded from Cuba by Dr. 

 Gundlach (Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 396, 1866). It was 

 probably an escaped cage bird. 



