BIEDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 415 



Certhwla flaveola Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 84; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 

 16.— Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 259.— Reichenbach, Handb., 

 ii, 1853, 250, pi. 561, fig. 3823.— BnKMEisTBB, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 

 156.— ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1861, 73; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 54, 

 part (Jamaica); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 43.— Albrecht, Journ. fiir. 

 Om., 1862, 196.— March, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 296.— Cassin, 

 Proc- Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 271.— Newton, Zool. Record, 1864, 76.— 

 Cabanis, Journ. fiir. Orn., 1865, 412.— Sundevall, CEfv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. 

 Stockh., 1869, 621 (monogr.).— Finsch, Verb. k. k. zool.-bot. Gessellsch. 

 Wien, 1871, 756 (monogr.).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 30 

 (synonymy).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 50; Birds W. I., 1889, 64. 



[Certhwla] flaveola BoiiAP ARTE, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 402, part.— Gray, Hand-list, 

 i, 1869, 120, no. 1497.— Sclatek and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 16.— 

 Baird, Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 610; in Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 427.— Coky, 

 List Birds W. L, 1885, 9. 



C[erthiola'] flaveola Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 103— Ridgway, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 28 (diagnosis). 



Coerebaflaviola Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 116, 130. 



CCEREBA SACCHARIN A (Lawrence). 

 ST. VINCENT BANANAatJIT. 



Similar to (7, luteola but back, etc. , dusky brownish slate instead of 

 black, rump light yellowish olive or olive-yellowish instead of clear 

 lemon yellow, white superciliary stripe much broader (especially 

 anteriorly), and throat dark slate or blackish slate instead of slate- 

 gray. 



Adidt {sexes alike).— VWema uniform sooty black, margined on each 

 side by a broad superciliary stripe of pure white, extending from 

 nostril to sides of occiput; rest of upper parts plain dusky brownish 

 slate, the rump light yellowish olive or olive-yellowish (as in C. chloro- 

 pyga); a white spot at base of longer primaries; inner webs of three 

 outermost rectrices broadly tipped with white (about 5.8-7.1 in extent 

 on lateral rectrix) ; loral, suborbital, and auricular regions and sides of 

 neck sooty black, like pileum; malar region, chin, and throat uniform 

 dark slate or blackish slate; rest of under parts lemon yellow, more or 

 less tinged with olive, especially on sides, the flanks yellowish olive- 

 gray, the under tail-coverts dull white; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 dull white; bill black; legs and feet dusky brownish (in dried skins). 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 102.1-115.3 (108.7); wing, 55.6-56.6 

 (56.1); tail, 34.3-34.8 (34.5); exposed culmen, 12.2-13.5 (12.7); tarsus, 

 17.8; middle toe, 10.9-11.2. ' 



Islands of St. Vincent and Grenada,^ Lesser Antilles. 



'Two specimens; one from St. Vincent, the other from Grenada. 



' With only a single specimen each from St. Vincent and Grenada, I am not able 

 to judge whether the birds from the two islands really differ or not. Both specimens 

 are marked "?,'' but that from St. Vincent with an interrogation point. The 



