BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 15 



EUPHONIA SCLATERI Sundevall. 

 PORTO BIOAN ETTPHONIA, 



Adult male. — Forehead saffron yellow, margined behind by a bar of 

 black across anterior part of crown; rest of pileum, hindneck, and sides 

 of neck uniform cerulean blue; back scapulars and upper tail-coverts 

 uniform glossy blue-black, with a slight violet tinge; wings and tail 

 black with glossy blue-black or dark steel blue edgings; entire rump 

 and under parts of body rich saffron yellow, the chin and throat simi- 

 lar but rather paler; lores, suborbital region, auricular region, and part 

 of malar region uniform glossy black; maxilla black, paler beneath 

 nostrils; mandible grayish basally, blackish terminally; legs and feet 

 horn color (in dried skins); length (skins), 97.8-102.9 (99.6); wing, 

 58.4-60.5 (59.4); tail, 33.5-34 (33.8); exposed culmen, 6.9-7.1 (6.9); 

 depth of bill at base, 4.1^.6 (4.3); tarsus, 14.7-15.2 (15); middle toe, 

 10.7-10.9 (10.7).^ 



Admit female. — Forehead gamboge yellow, margined posteriorly by 

 an indistinct dusky bar across anterior part of crown; rest of pileum, 

 hindneck, and sides of neck uniform light greenish blue (turquoise) ; 

 loral, suborbital, and auricular regions and most of malar region plain 

 olive-green; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, and upper tail-coverts plain 

 deep olive-green, with a slight gloss of metallic bluish green; rump 

 yellowish olive-green; remiges and rectrices blackish, the latter and the 

 secondaries with broad edgings of olive-green, the primaries with narrow 

 edgings of the same or pale greenish gray; under parts deep olive- 

 yellow, becoming purer yellow on chin, throat, abdomen, anal region, 

 and under tail-coverts, the last with central portion more olive; bill and 

 feetas in adult male; length (skin), 121.9; wing,59.2; tail, 32.8; exposed 

 culmen, 6.9; depth'of bill at base, 4.6; tarsus, 15.2; middle toe, 10.9.' 

 Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. 

 Fi'pra musica (not of Gmelin) Vibillot, Gal. Ois., SuppL, 1834. pi. s. n. 

 Oyanophonia musica Bonaparte, Eev. et Mag. de Zool., 2d ser., iii, March, 1851, 



138; Note sur les Tangaras, 1851, 12. 

 Euphoniaflavifrons (not Emberizaflavifrom Sparrmsinn) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1856, 271 (Porto Rico); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 97 (Porto Rico). 

 lEuphonia} flavifrons Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 77, no. 7121.— Sclatbe and Sal- 



viN, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 17.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 11. 

 Euphonia sdateri Sundevall, Oefv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 1869, 596 (Porto 

 Rico; coll. Stockholm Mus. ; ex Bonaparte, manuscript).— Gundlach, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1874, 311; 1878, 159; Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 191.— Cory, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 194 (synonymy and description); Birds W. I., 1889, 81; Cat. 

 W. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 113, 132.— Sclateb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 60. 



EUPHONIA FLAVIFRONS (Sparrmann). 

 GREEN EUPHONIA. 



Adult ma^e.— Forehead lemon or gamboge yellow, margined pos- 

 teriorly by a transverse line or bar of black; crown, occiput, hind- 

 1 Three specimens. ' One specimen. 



