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Cory o» the Birds of the West Indies. 



[April 



Genus Habropyga Caban. 



Habrofyga Cabanis. VViegm. Archiv, 1S47, XIII, p. 331 ; Mus. Hein. I, 

 p. 169. 



Habropyga melpoda (Vieill.)- 



Fringilla Dielpoda Vieill. Nouv. Diet. XII, p. 177 (1817). 

 Habropyga melpoda Guxdl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 206 (187S) 

 (Porto Rico). 



Sp. Char. Male: — -Top of head drab gray; sides of the head and cheeks, 

 including the eye, reddish orange; back and wings light brown; 

 lower rump and upper tail-coverts crimson; throatdull white, shad- 

 ing into graj' on the sides of the neck, separating the orange of the 

 cheeks from the brown of the upper parts ; rest of underparts dull 

 grayish, showing a purplish tinge on the flanks; a spot of pale red- 

 dish orange near the vent; wings and tail brovvn. 



Female: — Top of head drab gray, paler than in the male ; rest of 

 upper parts like the male ; no orange on side of the head ; underparts 

 showing a pale orange yellow tinge. 



Length (skin), 4.10; wing, 1.S5; tail, 1.75; tarsus, .56. 



An introduced species, common in Porto Rico. 



Family PLOCEID.^. 

 Genus Spermestes Swains. 



Sperniestcs Swainson. Class. Birds, p. 2S0 (1S37). 



Spermestes cucuUatus (Swains.). 



Loxia cucullata Swains. Zool. 

 Illust. 1S20, pi. 7. 



Spermestes ciiciillatu Swains. 

 Rkich. Singv. t. 12, pp. 114, 115. 

 — Bp. Consp. I, p. 454 (1S50). — 

 SuNDEV. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. 

 Forh. 1869, p. 597. — Gray. Handl. 

 Bds. II, p. 54 (1870). 



Lo.xia (Spermestes) cucullata Bry- 

 ant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. X. 

 p. 254 (1866). 

 Spermestes cucuUatus Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII. 'p. 206 

 (1878).— Cory. List Bds. W. I. p. 13 (1885). 



