on the Genus Coereba. 511 



the grey of tlie throat below ; size about the same ; rump- 

 patch olive-yellow. ... In its dark grey throat and jet-black 

 upper parts it resembles C. luteola.'^ 



CCEREBA FLAVEOLA. 



[^Certlda] flaveola Linnaius, Syst. Nat. ed. x. i. 1758, 

 ]). 119 (based on Luscinia s. Philomela e fusco et luteo varia 

 Sloane, Nat. Hist. Jamaica, p. 307, pi. 259. fig. 3). 



Nectarinia antillensis Less. Traite d^Ornithologie, 1830, 

 p. 3. Figured, Atlas, pi. 75. fig. 2, but white wing-spot 

 missing. 



Ccereba flaveola Ridgw. Birds N. & M. Araer. pt. ii. 1902, 

 p. 414. 



Hab. Island of Jamaica. 



15 c? c? & ? 2 • Brit. Mus. 



14 ditto. Coll. Rothschild. 



4 c? c? & 6 ? ? . Coll. r. R. L. 



With this species, which is the type of the genus, we now 

 pass on to consider a series of insular forms inhabiting the 

 Greater and Lesser Antilles, the Bahamas, and a few islands 

 bordering the mainland in the Caribbean basin. 



C(EREBA BANANIVORA. 



Motacilla hananivora Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. pt. ii. 1788, 

 p. 951 (St. Domingo; based on Bannniste Bulfon, Hist. Nat. 

 Ois. V. p. 332). 



Coereba bananivora Ridgw. Birds N. & M. Amer. pt. ii. 

 1902, p. 411. 



Hab. Island of Haiti (Greater Antilles). 



6 r^ c? & ? ? • Coll. Brit. Mus. 



5 ditto. Coll. Rothschild. 



6 c{ (J & 3 ? ? . Coll. P. R. L. 



It is to be noted that the outer webs of the outermost 

 rectrices in this species do not exhibit any white coloration, 

 in which it conforms to the continental arrangement, and 

 differs from, all other Greater Antillean species. The pileum 

 of adult birds is plain black, while the back is somewhat 

 lighter, sooty black, and the loral^ suborbital, and auricular 

 regions are plain black as in the pileum {cf. Ridgway). 



