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Male (two specimens) wing, 78.5, 83.0; tail, 55, 58; tarsus, 20, 



20.5; exposed eulinen, L1.3. 



S. ./• flo/oeola. Both sexes, ten specimens —wing, 71 74.5 (72.6); 

 tail, 50.5 55.0(52.6); tarsus, L8.0 19.0(18.6); exposed oilmen, L0.5- 

 ll.o (10.8 



Specimens examined. S.f.valida Peru: Sullana, ] d"; Huan- 



cabamba, 1 d 71 ; Bellavista, 1 cf. Total, 8. 



S. /'. flaveola -Brazil, 1. Jamaica 5 cfa 71 , 5 9 9- [Jnknown, 1. 



Total", 12. 



Rkm.vkks. -The name Sicalis flaveola is based upon Fringilla 

 flaveola Linne, Mus. de (Jeer -Surinam accepted as type-locality by 

 Berlepscb and Hartert (Nov. zool., 1902, 9, p. 27). We have no* 

 Surinam specimens for comparison, but assume that the Brazilian 

 and Jamaican material at our disposal represents true flaveola with 

 sufficient exactness. Our Brazilian specimen, although serviceable 

 for measurements, is rather old and the colors may be slightly dulled. 

 For this reason we have made comparisons chiefly with the Jamaican 

 material. It must be remembered that the species is not a native of 

 Jamaica, but was introduced from South America some time ago. 

 Gosse in his Birds of Jamaica gives an account of its introduction from 

 "Madeira" by a man named Shakespeare, as communicated to him 

 by Mr. Richard Hill, but he suggested that the birds may have been 

 brought from Brazil. 



The measurements given by Tackzanowski (Orn. Perou, 1886, 3, 

 p. 56) for the Peruvian bird — wing cf , 77-78; 9 , 76 — are some- 

 what smaller than those of the specimens collected by Noble, but still 

 appreciably larger than those of our Jamaican and Brazilian birds, 

 or the Brazilian specimen mentioned by Cory (Birds of the West 

 Indies, 1889, p. 100). 



Tackzanowski (he. cit.) describes the female as having a smaller, 

 less orange front. From our material, however, assuming the speci- 

 mens to have been correctly sexed by the collectors, we cannot detect 

 any difference whatever between the male and female, in coloration 

 or in measurements. 



