162 New Birds, from Grenada and Dominica. 



part ; middle of breast, abdomen, and under wing-coverts reddish-ochreous, 

 under tail-coverts of the same color, but paler; sides of the breast olivaceous; 

 upper mandible black, the under pale yellowish-white ; tarsi and toes brown- 

 ish-black. 

 Length (fresh), 5 3-4 inches ; wing, 2 7-8; tail, 2 5-8; tarsus, 5-8. 



Habitat, Dominica. Mr. Ober says ; " everywhere abundant 

 in the ravines and dark valleys of the mountains." 



Type in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. In " A Provisional List of the Birds of Domi- 

 nica," published in ' Forest and Stream,' Dec. 6th, 1877, this 

 bird was put as Blacicus Blancoi, Gundlach. Wishing to make 

 a comparison with the type, I desired Dr. Gundlach to loan it 

 to me for that purpose, with which request he kindly com- 

 plied. The specimen was received quite recently ; and I found 

 that, though closely allied, the two birds are quite distinct. 



B. Blancoi is from Porto Rico ; the specimen sent is 

 mounted, and is of somewhat smaller dimensions than the 

 bird from Dominica ; the wing measures 2 5-8 inches ; the tail, 

 2 1-2; the tarsus, 9-16. The crown is olive-brown, which color 

 gradually merges into the greenish-olive of the back and rump. 

 In the new species the crown is deep brown, and the upper 

 plumage olive-brown ; it also differs in having the throat gray, 

 which in the other is light fulvous ; the color of the abdomen 

 is rather paler than it is in B. Blancoi. 



In another specimen of the new species, a female, "in 

 young of the year plumage," the feathers of the wings and 

 back are strongly marked with rufous, yet the upper plumage 

 is as decidedly brown as in the adult, and the throat gray. 



4. Q/' dscalus luminosus, 



Male. — The general plumage is of a lustrous dark bluish-violet ; the upper 

 and under tail coverts are dull dark green; tail dark ulossy green; tertials, 

 outer webs of larger quills, and the middle and larger wing-coverts, glossy 

 green like the tail ; the inner webs of the larger quills are black; smaller wing- 

 coverts the color of the back ; under wing-coverts black; the bill and feet 

 are black ; " iris yelloAV." 



Length (fresh), 10 1-4 inches ; wing, 5 ; tail, 41-2; tarsus, 1 1-4; bill, 1 1-4. 



Female.— Upper plumage of a fine dark brown, light on the crown, the 



