BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 31 



Genus PYRRHUPHONIA Bonaparte. 



Pyrrhuphonia Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxi, 1850, 423; Rev. Zool., iii, 1851, 

 137. (Type, Pringillajamawa Linnadne.) 



Similar to EupJwnia but bill much stouter, its depth at base equal 

 to its width at rictus and greater than distance from nostril to tip of 

 maxilla; gonys very strongly ascending terminally, its basal angle 

 very prominent; maxillary tomium with subterminal notch indistinct^ 

 and without smaller notches or serrations posterior to the notch. 



Coloration. — Uniform, slightly metallic, greenish gray above, paler 

 gray beneath, becoming yellowish on abdomen. 



Bcmge. — Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



PYRRHUPHONIA JAMAICA (Linn^us). 

 JAMAICAN EUFEONIA. 



Adniltmale. — Above uniform greenish plumbeous, with a strong gloss 

 of metallic bluish green; remiges dusky, with greenish plumbeous edg- 

 ings, broadest on tertials; beneath much paler gray, without greenish 

 tinge or metallic gloss; abdomen light yellow (canary yellow or pale 

 lemon yellow) ; anal region and under tail-coverts pale cream-buff, the 

 latter with central or median portion duller, sometimes pale gray; 

 axillars pale yellow (primrose or pale sulphur); under wing-coverts 

 white; maxilla black with portion below nostril bluish gray (grayish 

 blue in life?); mandible bluish gray for basal half or more, blackish 

 terminally; legs and feet horn color (in dried skins); length (skins), 

 101.6-114.3 (105.9); wing, 66-66:5 (66.3); tail, 39.1-40.1 (39.6); 

 exposed culmen, 8.9-9.7 (9.1); tarsus, 17.5-17.8 (17.7); middle toe, 

 10.9-12.7 (12.2).' 



Adult female. — Pileum and hindneck greenish gray, with a slight 

 metallic gloss; rest of upper parts plain olive-green, slightly more 

 yellowish posteriorly; under parts pale gray, paler and duller medially; 

 abdomen buffy whitish; otherwise like the male; length (skins), 101.6- 

 118 (107.2); wing, 64.8-66 (65.3); tail, 38.6; exposed culmen, 8.9-9.4 

 (9.1); depth of bill at base, 7.1; tarsus, 17.8; middle toe, 12.2-12.7 

 (12.4).= 



Island of Jamacia, Greater Antilles. 



[Fringilla^ Jamaica Linn«us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 323 (Jamaica; baaed on 

 Orey Grosbeak Brown, Illustr., 62, pi. 26).— Gmblin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 

 1788, 920.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 448. 



Euphonia Jamaica GossE, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 238; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 

 59.— ScLATEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 73; Calt. Am. Birds, 1862, 60.— 

 Albeecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 196.— Maech, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1863, 296.— CoEY, Auk, iii, 1886, 194 (synonymy and descr.); Birds W. I., 

 1889, 81.— Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 180. 



'The notch is by no means wanting, as stated ou page 53 of the Catalogue of the 

 Birds in the British Museum, vol. xi. 

 ' Three specimens. ' Two specimens. 



