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dull scarlet red and sulphine yellow ; rump scarlet with some scatter- 

 ing lemon yellow feathers ; upjier tail-coverts dull black washed 

 with dull scarlet; lores white with black stippling'; ^uriculars, sides 

 of neck, throat, and breast light grayish olive, the feathers tipped or 

 washed with dull scarlet red and lemon yellow ; belly dull grayish, 

 vinaceous buff; Hanks dusky, streaked with blackish and washed with 

 pinkish and yellowish; under tail-coverts black, rather broadly edged 

 with white and washed slightly with pinkish ; tail dull black ; wings 

 dull black, the greater and middle coverts broadly tipped with white 

 with a pinliish wash, forming two wing bands ; the tertials also edged 

 with white ; unfler wing-coverts dusky, the feathers edged with 

 whitish and with dark shaft streaks ; the axillaries white, dusky at the 

 I)ase. Wing, 8<>; tail, 56; culmen, 1S.5; tarsus, 17; middle toe, 

 12.5 mm. 



Remarks: I besides the ty])e Dr. Abbott took a female on the same 

 day and while he found these birds more or less common in the j)ines, 

 only succeeded in obtaining the ])air. The female resembles the 

 same sex of Loxia bifasciata but is smaller with a much stouter and 

 heavier bill. I'Vom Loxia Icucoptcra the present species can be told 

 at a glance by its heavier and much less attenuated bill. 



BRACHYSPIZA ANTILLARUM, sp. nov. 



Type, LI. S. National Museum, No. 24(/)05, J* adult, Constanza, 

 5,000 feet, Santo Domingo, Sej^tember 23, 1916. Collected by Dr. 

 W. L. Abbott. 



Similar to Brachyspica capensis pcnivcnsis (Lesson) from the 

 highlands of Costa Rica, but collar around hind-neck, edging of wings 

 externally, back and flanks much darker, and the black patch on fore- 

 neck heavier. Wing, 67; tail, 63.5; culmen, 12; tarsus, 24; middle 

 toe, 14.5 mm. 



Remarks : Besides the type Dr. Abbott took two additional adult 

 males, one adult female, and six immature s])ecimens at the type 

 locality ancl an additional adult male at b^l Rif), 4,(XX) feet. 



