144 Descrij>tion of a Wew Species of Bird, (&c. 



a small reward being offered for them, between forty and fifty 

 were brought alive, but none are mentioned as differing in 

 color. In the Spring of 1859, Dr. H. Bryant visited several 

 breeding stations in the Bahamas, an account of which he has 

 published, in the Proc. of the Bost. Soc. of N. H. of Sep. last. 

 He also saw and obtained quite a number, which he states 

 agreed generally with my description of that species in the 

 Pacif. R. R. Report. He says the males and females do not 

 differ in appearance, and the different specimens " varying only 

 in the shade of salmon, which is always deepest on the long tail- 

 feathers, and next on the back and hind neck." This is proba- 

 bly the " carmine or roseate hue" spoken of in the Naturalist 

 in Bermuda, and which is no doubt evanescent shortly after 

 death, as there is no appearance of it in the specimens pre- 

 sented by Dr. B. to the Smithsonian Institution, where I lately 

 saw them, nor does it remain in my own specimen of flavi- 

 rostris from Cuba, which appears to be fully adult. Dr. Bryant 

 in his description says, the white on the three outer primaries 

 diminishes in extent from the 1st to the 3d ; this is so in my 

 specimen from Cuba, the white tip on the 1st primary being 

 but half an inch in extent, less on the next, and on the 3d the 

 black reaches the end ; in the species now described, the light 

 colored ends of these three primaries are nearly alike, or about 

 one and a half inches in extent. Dr. Bryant examined the bird 

 now described (after his return from the Bahamas), and united 

 with me in the opinion of its distinctness from the soecies which 

 he obtained. 



If flamrostris ever attains the uniform salmon-colored 

 plumage of the bird now described, it surely would be when 

 adult and at the time of breeding ; yet of the large numbers 

 procured at Bermuda and the Bahamas, none were similarly 

 colored. 



The bill in the present species is narrower than that of j^a- 

 virostris, and the upper tail coverts marked with black, which 

 are pure white in the one last named. 



