130 Cory on New Haitian Birds. 



feathers, bright yellowish-green. Inner webs of primaries and secondaries 

 brown, pale on the edges. Legs and lower mandible dark slate color: 

 upper mandible black. Iris reddish-brown. 



Length, 7.00; wing, 3.50; tail, 3.00: tarsus. .90: bill, .72. 



Authors have generally considered this bird to be the female of P. pal- 

 mar um : but a careful examination of a large series of the latter species 

 proved the sexual difference, if any, to be merely a slight variation in 

 size. 



Parra violacea. 



tJ ad. Hill and comb pale orange : bare skin at the base of the lower 

 mandible pale bluish-white. Head. neck, and upper breast, dark lustrous 

 green, back and wing-coverts purple, shading into rich golden-brown near 

 the rump; rump anil tail coverts bright purple. Underparts dark purple, 

 showing a tinge of dark rufous on the crissum. Most of the primaries and 

 secondaries bright yellow, edged with brown; tail rufous brown ; carpal 

 spur pale orange; legs and feet dull olive; iris brown. 



Length. 9.00; wing. 5.50; tail. 2.25: tarsus. 2.25; bill. 1.40. 



A single specimen taken, possibly a straggler to the island but apparently 

 differing from any known form. 



Myiadestes montanus. 



$ ad. Upper parts and two central tail feathers slaty graj ; primaries 

 and secondaries brownish-black, showing white near the base of the inner 

 welis: outer webs of primaries and terminal portion of the outer webs of 

 secondaries edged with gray: throat, crissum. and belly near the vent, 

 reddish-brown, intermediate between that of M. solitarius and 71/. sibilans, 

 but approaching nearer the color of the former; rest of underparts pale 

 gray. Outer tail feather white with black shaft, showing a dark tinge 

 near the extremity of the outer web: second feather black, with the 

 central portion of the terminal half white, the black narrowing to the ex- 

 tremity leaving the tip white; third feather showing a triangular patch of 

 white at the tip; rest of tail feathers, except the two central ones, black. 

 Bill black; legs and feet pale ; iris brown. 



Length, 7.00; wing, 3.35; tail, 3.38; tarsus, 1.00; bill, .38. 



