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mainly dull light green, without the blue, lilac, or strongly golden 

 changeable hues of the adult male; edgings to wings and tail more 

 yellowish green ; length (skins), 149. 9-160 (154. 2) ; wing, 75. 7-77. 7 (76. 5) ; 

 tail, 53.6-54.6 (54.1); exposed culmen, 11.7-12.4 (12.2); depth of bill 

 at base (two specimens), 7.6; tarsus, 20.8-21.16 (21.3); middle toe, 14.2- 

 15.2 (14.7).' 



Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. 



Callisle versicolor Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., i, June, 1878, 153 (St. Vin- 

 cent, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ) ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 190, 

 487 (St. Vincent).— OoRY, Birds W. I., 1889, 82 (do.); Cat. W. I. Birds, 

 1892, 16, 114, 134, 151.— Sclatkr, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 113, part 

 (St. Vincent). 



[Calliste'] versicolor Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 11 (St. Vincent). 



Calliste cucullata (not Aglaia cucullata Swainson) Sclater and Salvin, Ibia, 1878, 

 357 (crit.).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 195 (St. Vincent); v, 1888, 157. 



ICalliste'] cucullata Cory, List Birds W. L, revised ed., 1886, 11 (St. Vincent). 



Genus TANAGRA Linnaeus. 



Tanagra Linn.,eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 313. (Type, by elimination, T. 



episcopus Linnaeus or T. sayaca Linnseus.) 

 Thraupis BoiE, Isis, 1826, 947. (Type, Tanagra archepiscopus Desmarest, = T. 



omata Sparrmann. ) 



Medium-sized Tanagers with exposed culmen decidedly shorter than 

 middle toe without claw, tarsus not more than one-third as long as 

 tail, maxillary tomium nearly straight, and with the head unicolored. 



Bill varying from slenderly conoid {T. ornata) to turgid conoid {T. 

 ionariensis), but usually intermediate between these extremes; exposed 

 culmen more than half as long as tarsus, nearly straight for basal half 

 or more, more or less strongly convex terminally, the tip slightly 

 uncinate; gonys a little shorter than length of maxilla from nostril, 

 slightly convex or nearly sti'aight, more or less ascending terminally; 

 maxillary tomium nearly straight, distinctly notched subterminally; 

 mandibular tomium slightly convex or nearly straight; width of bill at 

 base equal to or exceeding its basal depth. Nostril exposed, small, 

 nearly circular or horizontally oval, with narrow anterior and superior 

 membrane. Rictal bristles inconspicuous. Wing rather long (a little 

 more than four to about four and three-fourths times as long as tar- 

 sus), rather pointed (ninth to sixth primaries longest, ninth longer 

 than fourth, sometimes longer than sixth); primaries exceeding sec- 

 ondaries usually by more than length of tarsus (by less in T. darwmi). 

 Tail shorter than wing by about or more than length of tarsus, even 

 or slightly emarginate, the rectrices of medium width, with rounded 

 tips. Tarsus equal to or slightly longer than middle toe with claw; 



^ Three specimena. 



