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and under tail-coverts white, tlie last with concealed basal portion of 

 the feathers abruptly gray; flanks light grayish olive, indistinctly 

 streaked with darker; maxilla black; mandible paler (bluish gray in 

 life?); legs and feet dusky (bluish gray in life?); length (skins), 157.5; 

 wing, 83.1-86.4 (S4.6); tail, 69.9-71.9 (70.9); exposed culmen, 10.7-11.2 

 (10.9); depth of bill at base (one specimen), 5.8; tarsus, 20.8-21.1; mid- 

 dle toe, 13.7.' 



Adidt female. — "Olive on the back and yellowish on the rump; 

 under parts grayish, whitening at the vent" (Cort). "Above olive; 

 back slightly striated; wings and tail blackish brown, edged with olive; 

 outer margins of wing-coverts whitish; beneath grayish white, clearer 

 on the belly, with blackish shaft-stripes on the breast" (SclatEe). 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



T\anagra\ multicolor Vieillot, Enc. M4th., ii, 1823, 775 ( " Florides, les iles Baha- 

 ma et de Saint-Domingue ") . 



Tanagra multicolor Vieillot, Gal. Ois., i, 1834, 100, pi. 76. 



[Spindalis] multicolor Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 240. — Sclatek and Salvin, 

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



Spindalis multicolor Sclater, Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1856, 230 (monogr. ); Synop. 

 Av. Tanagr., 1856, 57; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 167.— Salle, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 231.— Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 152 

 (Haiti); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 54, pi. (7); Auk, iii, 1886, 196 

 (synonymy; descr.); Birds AV. I., 1889, 83 (do.); Cat. AV. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 

 114, 131. — Oheerie, Oontr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 13 (Catare and Aguacate, 

 Santo Domingo; crit. ). 



Tanagra clominicensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1866, 92 (St. Domingo; 

 crit. ) . 



SPINDALIS PRETREI (Lesson). 



CUBAN SPINDALIS. 



Similar to S. multi-color., but bill still more slender; adult male with 

 nuchal collar rufous-orange (instead of yellow), lower rump rufous- 

 orange (instead of deep orange-tawny), chest tawny-orange instead of 

 chestnut, middle wing-coverts more broadly tipped with olive-green, 

 greater coverts more broadly edged with white, and black stripe on 

 sides of throat much narrower. 



Ackilt m.ale. — Pil6um and sides of head black, relieved by a white 

 superciliary stripe (extending to nape) and a still broader white malar 

 stripe; chin white (confluent laterally with white malar stripes); median 

 portion of throat clear rich yellow (canary or Indian yellow), mai"- 

 gined on each side by a black stripe (narrow and pointed anteriorly, 

 broader and rounded or subtruncate posteriorly); whole chest, lower 

 foreneck (between posterior portion of lateral black throat-stripes), 

 sides of neck and band or collar across hindneck orange-tawny or deep 

 tawny-orange, that on the chest fading posteriorly into clear lemon 

 yellow on median portion of breast and upper abdomen; sides and 

 flanks pale oli^'e-grayish; lower abdomen, anal region, and under tail- 



' Two specimens, 



