BIRDS OF ITOBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 619 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



SyMcola pharetra Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 163; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849 



pi. 38. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 309. — Osbuhn, Zoologist, xvii, 1859, 



6660, in text (habits). 

 M[niotilta] pharetra Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1848, 196. 

 [Mniotilta'] pharetra Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 241, no. 3487. 

 Dendrceca pharetra Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1861, 71; Cat. Am. Birds, 



1862, 358.— Albkeoht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 193.— Coues, Birds Col. Val., 



1878, 296 (synonymy).— Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 332, 651. 

 IDendrceea'] pharetra Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9. — Coues, 



Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 297, in text.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 8. 

 Dlendrceca] pharetra Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 106. 

 Dendroeca pharetra Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., xxvi, 1870, 617 



(monogr. ). 

 Dendroica pharetra Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 192. — Coey, Auk, iii, 1886, 



35; Birds W. I., 1889 49, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 18, 118, 130 (Jamaica). 

 D[endroica'] pharetra Baird, Brewer, and Bidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, 220. 



Genus CATHAROPEZA Sclater. 



Catharopeza^ Sclater,. Ibis, 4tli ser., iv, Jan., 1880, 40, footnote; 74, in text. 

 (Type, Leucopeza Imhopi Lawrence. ) 



Rather large terrestrial or semiterrestrial Mniotiltidse with the outer- 

 most (ninth) primary shorter than fifth; tail much less than two and a 

 half times as long as tarsus; color plain sooty blackish,^ with white 

 patch on lower throat, another on breast, and under tail-coverts white. 



Bill much shorter than head, shaped much as in Oporornis and spe- 

 cies of Dendroica. Rictal bristles distinct. ¥/ing moderate, rather 

 pointed (eighth, seventh, and sixth primaries longest, ninth slightly 

 shelter than fifth); wing- tip about as long as commissure. Tail about 

 equal to distance from bend of wing to tips of secondaries, rounded, 

 the rectrices narrow and with subacuminate tips. Tarsus nearly half as 

 long as tail, its scutella indistinct (almost fused on outer side) ; middle 

 toe with claw much shorter than tarsus; basal phalanx of middle toe 

 united for decidedly more than half its length to outer toe, separated 

 for most of its length from inner toe. 



Coloration. — Sooty blackish, or olive, with orbital ring, lower throat, 

 patch on breast, under tail-coverts, and small spot at tip of inner web 

 of lateral rectrices, white; sexes essentially alike. 



Nidification. — Unknown . 



^TOgre.— Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



This genus is very distinct from Zeifcojpesa, the form of the bill, feet, 

 wings, and tail being conspicuously different. It is nearly related to 

 Dendroica, from which it differs chiefly in the relatively shorter tail, and 

 perhaps should not be separated from that genus. 



1 "KaBapdi, clarus, et JteZa, pes." 

 '■' Olive, instead of blackish, in young. 



