FUIXGILLID.E — THE FIXCIIE.S. 9^ 



A* Head without any yellow. 



1. P. zena. Cuimcn doeidpiUy curved. Above <lull trrayish olive- 

 green. <y. Head and lower parts, especially anteriorly, dull Mack, mixed 

 with whitish posteriorly. 9* 11*^*'^ '^"'^ beneath ashy. Win*;, about 

 2.00; tail, 1.7."i. ILih. West Indies (Cuba, Hayti, Torto Rico, St. 

 Bartholomew, Jamaica, etc.) ; also Key West, Florida (Mayxakd). 



B* Head with yellow patches. 



2. P. pusilla. Culmen perfectly straijiht. Above rather britrht olive- 

 green. ^, a supraloral stripe, a patch on chin, and upper i)art of throat, 

 with edge of wing, bright yellow ; forehead, lores, and jugulum black. 

 9 with the black and yellow only indicated, or wanting. 



Whole crown, cheeks, breast, and upper part of abdomen black. 

 Hah. Middle America, from Mirador to Panama, and southward. 



var. pn silh( } 



Only isolated spots, covering forehea<l, lore, and base of lower jaw, 

 and patch on jugulum, black. Hah. West In<lies. (Porto Rico. 

 Hayti, Jamaica, Cuba, etc.) var. olivacea ■■ 



3. P. canora.^ Culmen decidedly curved. Above bright olive-green : 

 beneath pale ashy, whitish on anal region. A bright yellow broad 

 crescent across the lower part of the throat, curving upward and 

 forward, behind and over the auriculars, to above the eye. ^. Lores, 

 auriculars, and chin, and a band across the jugulum, black. 9- Chin, 

 etc., chestnut-brown ; no black on jugulum. Hah. Cuba. 



Phonipara zena, Bryant. 



THE BLACK-FACED FINCH. 



FringiUa zena, LiNN. Syst. Xat. I, (ed. 10,) 1758, 183 (based on Pnsacr bicolor baJmmensis, t 



Catesby, Carol. I, tab. 37, Bahamas). — Bryant, Pr. liost. Soc. N. H. X, 1805, 254. ' 



FriiKjilla hicolor, Lixx. Syst. Nat. I, (ed. 12,) 1766, 324 (same original as zena). 



Spemwphila hicolor, GossE (Jamaica). PJionipnra. hkoh>r, Newton (St. Croix). ' 



? Tiaris omivta, Jaudine, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1847, 332 (Tobafjo), Phonipara omissa, 



ScLATER. Phonipara imirchi, Baird, Pr. A, N. Se. Phila. Nov. 1863, 297 (Jamaica). j 



FringiUa zena, xiiT. march i, Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soo. 1867, 43. Fring ilia {Phonipara) 

 zena, var. portoriccnsis, Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. X, 1865, 254 (Porto Rico). : 



I 

 Sp. Char. Male adult (627, Bryant coll. ; Inagua). Above dull olive-green, the head \ 



and lower parts black, the two colors blending msensibly into each other; feathers of 



the middle of the abdomen and crissum edged with whitish. Wing, 2.10 ; tail, 1.80, 



culmen, .35; tarsus, .G3; mid<lle toe, .50. 



Female adult (983. Bryant coll. ; Inagua). Above dull olive-green, beneath ashy, 

 whitish on the abdomen and crissum ; no black, ^^'ing, 2.10. 



Male juv. (981, Bryant coll. ; Inagua). Like the adult female, but the head anteriorly, 

 the chin, throat, and jugulum medially, black. Wing, 2.05. 



Hab. West Indies (Bahamas ; Jamaica, Porto Rico ; St. Croix, Tobago ?). 



1 Tiaris pusilhi, SwAiNsoN, Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 438. Phonipara pusilla, Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1855, 159. 



2 Emheriza olivacea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 309. Phonipara olivace<i, Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1855, 159. 



* Loxia canora, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 858. Phonipara cxnora, Bonap. 



