1874.] MR. P. L. SCLATER ON CENTROPSAR. 175 



been in spirit, I should not venture to distinguish the Barbadian 

 form until further specimens are received for comparison. 



3. Loxigilla noctis (Linn.). 



Also found in Martinique and S. Lucia. 



4. Phonipara bicolor (Linn.). 



This is the " Parson Sparrow " of Barbadoes. I cannot now 

 distinguish the forms of the various islands, Venezuela, and 

 Columbia, and unite them all (including P. omissa, Jard.) under this 

 name. P. marchii, Baird, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1863, p. 297, of Jamaica 

 and St. Croix is perhaps distinct. 



5. Quiscalus fortirostris, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1868, 

 p. 360. 



My single specimen is apparently a female of the species recently 

 described by Mr. Lawrence. 



I have lately come to the conclusion that the species of this genus 

 from S. Lucia and Martinique, which in my paper on the birds of 

 the former island (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 271) I referred to the conti- 

 nental Q. lugubris, must stand as distinct, having a longer and more 

 incurved bill, and a brown female, whereas in Q. lugubris the sexes 

 are similar in plumage. In order to avoid giving it a fresh name 

 I call it Q. injlexirostris, Sw., though the bill certainly does not 

 quite agree with Swainson's figure (An. in Menag. p. 300). 



6. Elainea martinica (Linn.) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 271. 



7. Eulampis holosericeus (Linn.). 



8. Orthorhynchus cristatus (Linn.). 



9. Cham^epelia passerina (Linn.). 



3. On Centropsar, an apparently new Form of the Family 



Icterida. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 



Secretary to the Society. 



[Eeceived February 23, 1874.] 



(Plate XXVI.) 



In a large collection of bird-skins which has lately passed through 

 the hands of Mr. Edward Bartlett, and of which he has kindly sub- 

 mitted a selection to my examination, I find a single example of a 

 form that is quite new to me, as also to other ornithologists to whom 

 I have shown it. Judging by the beak and wings, it would appear 

 to belong to the family Icteridse, or Starlings of the New World; 

 but its feet are slender, and have a straight elongated hind claw, and 

 the rectrices are stiffened, so that it cannot be referred to any known 

 genus of that family. I therefore propose to introduce it to science 

 under the new generic title Centropsar (Kevrpov, calcar, et \pap, 

 sturnus), with the following characters. 



