Margarita Island, Venezuela. 567 
The three specimens from Trinidad, besides differing in 
measurements as already shown, are very different as regards 
the darker and richer yellow colour on the breast and 
abdomen and also on the upper tail-coverts. 
EVETHEIA BICOLOR OMISSA. 
_ Phonipara bicolor Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xii. p. 149 
(1888). 
Euetheia omissa Robinson, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. p. O74 
(1895). 
Huetheia bicolor omissa Clark, Auk, xix. p. 266 (1902). 
, Z Migs U Jan. 6, 1904. [R. B. 8] 
a. Gad. Fs 6, 1904.0 [Pa Rau 
e, f. gd ad. March 20, 1906. [P. R. L.] 
g, 4,2 9 ad. March 21, 1906. [P. R. L.] 
These birds from Margarita have a melanotic tendency 
as compared with specimens from the Lesser Antilles and the 
Bahaman K. bicolor. They agree with specimens which I have 
in my collection from Trinidad and the Cariaco Peninsula, 
Venezuela, and would seem to answer to the description 
given of /. bicolor omissa by Jardine. Further north in the 
island of Blanquilla this Finch has a still more melanotic 
tendency, and I have already separated it under the name of 
LE. gohnstonei. 
CARDINALIS PH@NICEUS ROBINSON1. 
Cardinalis robinsont Richmond, Auk, xii. p. 370 (1895: 
Margarita) ; Robinson, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xviii. p. 676 
(1895); Clark, Auk, xix. p. 265 (1902). 
Cardinals pheniceus, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 111. 
a. gad. Jan. 6, 1904. [P. R. L.] 
ie Jae } March 20-28, 1906. [P. R. 1. 
i-p. Gad. Jan. 7, 1904. [R. B. S.] 
Iris hazel-brown. 
Mr. Richmond has separated the Margarita Cardinal from 
C. pheniceus as being a smaller bird and having the crest 
considerably shorter. I have carefully measured the crests 
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