420 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CCEREBA BARBADENSIS (Baird). 

 BARBADOS BANAITAaUIT. 



Adults {sexes alilte). — Above dark sooty slate color, darkest on 

 pileum, the back more brownish slate; lower rump light yellowish- 

 olive or olive-yellowish; secondaries narrowly margined at ends with 

 pale grayish or dull grayish white; no white spot at base of primaries; 

 lateral rectrices broadly tipped with white on both webs, the white 

 on outermost rectrix about 7.6-8.9 in extent; a white or pale yellow 

 superciliary stripe, broadest anteriorly (on sides of forehead); sides of 

 head below this stripe, sides of neck, chin, upper throat, and sides of 

 lower throat sooty blackish, like pileum; an indistinct rictal streak 

 of grayish; median portion of lower throat white or yellowish white; 

 rest of under parts lemon or gamboge yellow, becoming paler and 

 duller posteriorly, the flanks pale j'ellowish gray or olive, the lower 

 abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts white or yellowish white; 

 bill blackish with tumid rictus pale brownish (flesh color in life?); 

 legs and feet dusky (in dried skins); length (skins), 93-96 (94.2); wing, 

 55.6-59.1 (57.7); tail, 36.6^0.4 (38.6); exposed culmen, 12.2-12.7 

 (12.4); tarsus, 17.8-18.3 (18); middle toe, 10.7-11.7 (11.2).' 



Yoang. — Above plain grfi.yish brown, including pileum and sides of 

 head and neck, the middle and greater wing-coverts indistinctly tipped 

 with paler; superciliaiy stripe narrow, mostly yellow; sides of throat 

 dusky; rest of under parts, including median portion of throat, light 

 olive-yellow or dull canary yellow, becoming paler posteriorly, the 

 flanks tinged with light brownish olive. 



Island of Barbados, Lesser Antilles. 



{GexiUiokiX barbadensis Baird, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 612 (Barbados, Leaser 



Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); in Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 428; iii, 



1874, 508.— Cory, List Birds West Indies, 1885, 9. 

 Certhiola barbadensis Baird, Rrewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 



508.— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 30 (synonymy).— Sclater, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 46.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 52; Birds West 



Indies, 1889, 66. 

 C[erlhiola:] bcirbademis 'Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 28 (diagnosis). 

 Ccereba barbadensis Cory, Auk, viii, Jan., 1891, 40; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 



116, 134. 

 Claireba'] barbadensis Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1892, 78, 79, in text. 

 Certhiola marlinicana (not of Reichenbach) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 



1874, 174 (Barbados). 



CCEREBA UROPYGIALIS Berlepsch. 

 CURASAO BANANAQUIT. 



Similar to G. iarbadensis, but white throat-patch much larger, 

 extending to median portion of upper throat or sometimes even to 

 chin, and without yellowish tinge; superciliary stripe pure white, 

 longer (terminating beyond or behind auricular region), equally broad 



' Three specimens, with sex undetermined. 



