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slightly tinged with olive laterally, especially on flanks; ana: region 

 and under tail-coverts white, the feathers grayish basally; axillars and 

 under wing-coverta white, slightly tinged with yellow; wings and tail 

 black, the greater coverts and tertials broadly, the other secondaries 

 and the primaries narrowly, margined with white; inner webs of lat- 

 eral rectrices with a large terminal blotch of white on inner half; max- 

 illa black, mandible bluish gray with blackish tip; legs and feet 

 grayish dusky (bluish gray in life?); length (skins), 166.1-186.7 (177); 

 wing, 92.2-100.6 (97.3); tail, 71.6-79.2 (76.7); exposed culmen, 12.2- 

 14 (13.5); depth of bill at base, 8.1-8A (8.4); tarsus, 21.8-23.9 (22.6); 

 middle toe, 16.2-16.8 (16.3).^ 



Adult female.— Fileam and sides of head plain dull olive-grayish, 

 the feathers with indistinctly darker margins; chin, throat, and sides 

 of neck plain light brownish gray; otherwise like the adult male, but 

 lesser and middle wing-coverts greenish olive, black of greater coverts, 

 remiges, primary coverts, and tail duller (the last with middle pair of 

 rectrices dusky brownish gray), yellowish olive-green of upper parts 

 duller, and yellow of under parts slightly less intense; white terminal 

 patch of inner web of lateral rectrices smaller; length (skin), lsl.6; 

 wing, 97.8; tail, 74.7; exposed culmen, 13.5; depth of bill at base, 8.1; 

 tarsus, 22.9; middle toe, 16.8.' 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Tanagra nigricephala Jameson, Edinburgh New Philos. Journ., xix, 1835, 213 

 (Jamaica); L'Institut, iii, 1835, 316.— Gosse, Illustr. Birds Jamaica, 1849, 

 pi. 56. 



[Spindalia\ nigricephalaBoNAPARTS, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 240. — Sclatbr and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 21.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 11. 



Spindalis nigricephala SchATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 230 (monogr.); 1861, 

 74; Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 56; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 77, excl. syn. part; 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.,xi, 1886, 166(Moneague and Spanishtown, Jamaica). — 

 Alerbcht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 196. — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1863, 296.— CoEY, Auk, iii, 1886, 198 (synonymy; descr.); Birds W. I., 1889, 

 85; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 114, 130.— Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 180. 



Slpindalis] nigricephala A. and E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 104. 



Spindalis bUineatus Jardine and Selby, Illustr. Orn., new ser., 1836, pi. 9. 



Tanagra zena (not Pringilla zena Linnseus) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 231. 



Tanagra zenoides Des Murs, Icon. Orn., 1847, pi. 40. 



SPINDALIS PORTORICENSIS (Bryant). 

 PORTO KICAN SPIHDALIS, 



Admit male. — Pileum and sides of head black, relieved by a white 

 superciliary stripe (extending to nape) and a white malar stripe (some- 

 times also a small white spot in middle of forehead); a large black 

 space on each side of lower throat; back, scapulars, rump, and upper 



' Five specimens. ^ One specimen. 



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