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Coloration.— AhoYQ plain olive-green; top and sides of head black, 

 or gray with white supraloral, supraauricular, and suborbital marks; 

 beneath bluish gray and white. Sexes alike. 



^amj/e.— Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. (Two species.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF PH^NICOPHILUS. 



a. Crown and occiput black; whole throat and median portion of chest, breast, and 



abdomen white. (Haiti. ) Phaenicophilus palmarum, adults (p. 127) 



m. Crown and occiput gray, like hindneck; median portion of throat gray; whole of 



chest, breast, and abdomen, as well as sides and flanks, gray. (Haiti. ) 



Phaenicophilus poliocephalus, adults, (p. 128) 



PH.ffi;NICOPHILUS PALMARUM (Linnaeus). 

 PALM TANAGER. 



Advlt {sexes alike). — Pileum and sides of head black, sharply defined 

 below and posteriorly, relieved by a large white spot on each side of 

 forehead, a white spot on lower eyelid, and a broad white supraauricular 

 streak (beginning near of middle upper eyelid); malar region, chin, 

 whole throat, and median portion of chest, breast, and abdomen white; 

 hindneck and sides of neck slate-gray, passing into lighter gray (no. 7 

 or cinereous) on sides of breast, sides, and flanks; rest of upper parts 

 plain yellowish olive-green; edge of wing light yellow; maxilla black; 

 mandible grayish or horn color (in dried skins), becoming black at tip; 

 iris dark brown; legs and feet horn color or dusky (in dried skins). 



Admit maZe.— Length (skins), 157.5-160 (158.8); wing, 82.8-87.6 

 (85.1); tail, 66.5-71.1 (68.8); exposed culmen, 17.3-18.3 (17.8); depth 

 of bill at base (one specimen), 7.6; tarsus, 23.1-24.6 (23.9); middle 

 toe, 15-16 (15.5). 1 



AdAilt female.— h&nigt}! (skin), 166.4; wing, 83.1; tail, 71.1; exposed 

 culmen, 16; depth of bill at base, 6.4; tarsus, 23.4; middle toe, 16.^ 



Young. — "Similar to the adults, except that the black of the head 

 is replaced by dusky grayish or slate color, and the entire head, neck, 

 and breast are washed with olive yellowish." (Cherrie.) 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



[Tu,rdus\ palmarum LiNN.»ns, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 295 (based on Le Pal- 

 miste Brisson, Orn., ii, 301, and Le Palmiste A ietenoir Brisson, Orn., ii, 303). — 

 Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 824.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 356. 



Tachyphonus palmarum Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxii, 1819, 359; 

 Enc. M6th., ii, 1823, 803. 



Ar\remm] palmarum Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., p. 16. 



Arremon palmarum Bbyant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. , xi, 1866, 92. 



PhsenicophUus palmarum Strickland, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1851, 104. 



Phcenicophilus palmarum Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 84 (monogr. ); 

 1857, 232; Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 22; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 92; Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 234.— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 198.— 

 CoKY, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 152 (Haiti; habits, etc.); Birds Haiti 



^ Two specimens. ^ One specimen. 



