1SS6.J Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 3 ^ ^ 



4. Centurus blakei, sp. nov. 



Sp. Char. — Similar to C. nyeanus but much darker, the forehead pale 

 drab, or light grayish-buff (instead of pure white) ; auriculars deep light 

 drab, fore-neck and chest olivaceous-drab, and lighter bars of back, scap- 

 ulars and rump, light dingj buff instead of nearly' pure white; frontlet 

 dull orange-red (instead of pure vermillion, or scarlet). 



Adult 7nale (type No. 108,618, Abaco I., Bahamas, April 2, 1S86; 

 Charles H. Townsend) : Wing, 5.35; tail, 3.90; culmen, 1.45; tarsus, .90. 



Adult female (type No. 198,619, same locality, April 6, 18S6 ; Willard 

 Nye) : Similar to the male, but crown and occiput ash-gray, becoming 

 gradually lighter anteriorly, the hinder portion (connecting superciliary 

 spots) spotted with black; frontlet merely tinged with orange, and gray- 

 ish of lower parts, as well as white bars of back, etc., much less strongly 

 tinged with yellowish. Wing, 5.25; tail, 3. So; culmen, 1.35; tarsus, .85. 



Eleven adult males, six adult females. 



This new species is dedicated to his Excellency, Governor 

 Henry A. Blake, to whom the naturalists accompanying the 

 'Albatross' are indebted for mimy courtesies and kind attentions. 



THE BIRDS OF THE WEST INDIES, INCLUDING 



THE BAHAMA ISLANDS, THE GREATER AND 



THE LESSER ANTILLES, EXCEPTING 



THE ISLANDS OF TOBAGO 



AND TRINIDAD. 



BY CHARLES B. CORY. 



YCoutinucd frojn p. s^j.] 



Family COTINGID.-E. 



Genus Hadrostomus Cab. 



Hadrostofnus Cabaisiis, Mus. Hein. II, p. 85 (1S59). 



Hadrostomus niger (Gmel.). 



Lanius niger Gmel. S_yst. Nat. I, p. 301 (1788). 



Tityra leuconotus Gray, Gen. Bds. 1. pi. 63 (1S44). — Gosse, Bds. Jam t* 

 187 (1847). 



