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throughout; lower rump more extensivel}- and abruptly light yellow- 

 ish olive or olive-yellowish; gray rictal streak less distinct, and sides 

 of throat, and chin, dark slate color instead of sooty black. 



Younff.— Above plain brownish gray, the rump tinged with light 

 yellowish olive, the middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with pale 

 buffy grayish; superciliary stripe bright yellow, paler posteriorly: 

 sides of head and neck otherwise plain brownish gray, darker on lores, 

 paler and tinged with yellowish from rictus backward; sides of throat 

 dusky; rest of under parts, including a median throat-stripe extend- 

 ing nearly to chin, canary yellow, faintly tinged with pale olive later- 

 ally, fading into buffy white or pale buffy yellow on anal region and 

 under tail-coverts. 



Adult male. —Length (skins) , 99. 6-104. 6 (102. 1 ); wing, 60. 7-61 (60. 8) ; 

 tail, 40.1-40.9 (40.6); exposed culmen, 12.4-14.2 (13.5); tarsus, 18.3-18.5 

 (18.4); middle toe, 11.7-11.9 (11.8).' 



Island of Curasao, Caribbean Sea. 



Coereba uropygialis Berlepsch, .Journ. £ur Orn., xxxx, Jan., 1892, 77 (Island of 

 Curacao, Caribbean Sea; coll. E. Peters).— Robinson, Flying Trip to Tropics, 

 . 1895, 165 (Curagao). 



C[(sreba] uropygialis Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1892, 79, 81, in text. 

 Certhiola apeciea? Peters, Journ. fiir Orn., 1892, 116 (C^ura^ao). 



CCEREBA MARTINICANA (Reichenbach). 

 MARTINiaTJE BANANAftniT. 



Similar to C. uropyfflalis, but white throat-patch much more sharply 

 defined, superciliary stripe shorter (scarcelj^ reaching to end of auricu- 

 lar region), malar region and sides of throat uniform sooty black, like 

 auricular region, pileum, etc. ; no gray rictal streak, and with less of 

 olive-yellow on rump. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above dark sooty slate, sometimes inclining 

 to s6oty blackish, especially on pileum, which is alwaj^s perceptibly 

 darker than back; lower rump more or less tinged with light j^ellowish 

 olive or olive-yellowish, but without a distinct patch or band of that 

 color; wing-coverts usually slightly tipped with pale grayish; no white 

 at base of primaries, but their outer webs narrowly edged with grayish ; 

 inner webs of lateral rectrices broadly tipped with white, this on outer- 

 most rectrix about 6.3-8.9 in extent; a superciliary stripe of white 

 or (in younger specimens?) yellow, extending from nostril to about 

 end of auricular region, but becoming narrower posteriorly; sides of 

 head, otherwise, and sides of neck, including sides of throat, uniform 

 sooty black, like pileum; median portion of throat white or grayish 

 white, forming a broad, somewhat wedge-shaped, stripe; rest of under 

 parts lemon yellow, paler and strongly tinged with olive on flanks, the 



^Two specimens. 



