150 New Species of Birds from St. Vincent. 



5. Certhiola saccharina. 



Female. Crown, occiput, lores, and sides of the head, glossy black ; back of 

 a dull grayish or smoky black; rump dull greenish-yellow ; a very conspicuous 

 white superciliary stripe runs from the bill to the hind neck ; tail black, the 

 first two lateral feathers have a small patch of dull white on their inner webs 

 at the end, the third feather has the end narroAvly white; wings black, with a 

 white patch at the base of the primaries ; these have their outer webs narrowly 

 margined with white ; edge of wing light yellow ; under wing-coverts white ; 

 throat dark plumbeous, breast and upper part of abdomen, clear light yellow, 

 the sides and lower part of the abdomen are light ashy olive, under tail-coverts 

 yellowish-white, bill and feet black. . 



Length (fresh) 4-1 in; wing, 2\; tail, 1 9-16; tarsus, f. Two specimens are in 

 the collection, one marked 6 , has the plumage greatly soiled; the other is 

 marked as a $ with a ? ; this I have taken for the type, the plumage being in 

 a much better condition. 



The male measures, length, 4j in.; wing, 2i; tail, If; tarsus, |. 



Types in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. This, in appearance, conies nearest to C. Portori 

 eensis, but differs in the superciliary stripe being wider and 

 extending farther back, in the throat being many shades 

 darker in color, in having the flanks of a darker olive, and the 

 yellow on the rump darker and duller. 



The color of the breast and rump in C. Portoricensis is of 

 a deeper yellow. 



Mr. Ober says it is called the " molasses bird." 



6. Leucopeza Bishopi. 



Male. The general plumage is smoky-black, rather darker on the head; the 

 sides are blackish cinereous ; a circle of pifre white surrounds the eye ; a large 

 roundish spot on the middle of the throat, the upper part of the breast, and 

 the middle of the abdomen, arc dull white, somewhat mixed with blackish on 

 the throat and with cinereous on the abdomen; a very small spot on the chin, 

 and the tips of the feathers on the upper part of the throat, are dull white ; the 

 black on the upper part of the breast has the appearance of a broad band, 

 separating the white of the throat from that of the lower part of the breast; the 

 under tail-coverts are cinereous-black at base, ending largely with dull white; 

 wings and tail black, the outer two tail-feathers have a small white spot, tri- 

 angular in shape, on their inner webs at the end; bill black; tarsi and toes very 

 pale yellowish-brown, perhaps much lighter colored in the living bird, nails 

 also pale. 



Length (fresh) 5|in.; wing, 2|; tail, 2J; tarsus, £. 



Two specimens marked as females do not differ in plumage from the 

 males. 



Length (fresh) 5 Jin.; wing, 2f; tail, 2|; tarsus, %. 



