BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 107 



LOXIMITRIS DOMINICENSIS (Bryant). 

 HAITIAN GOLDFINCH. 



Adult male. — Head, all round, uniform black; back, scapulars, and 

 lesser and middle wing-coverts yellowish olive-green; rump olive- 

 yellow; wings blackish, with olive-green edgings, these absent from 

 basal portion of secondaries; middle pair of rectrices blackish, edged 

 with olive-green; remaining rectrices yellow, broadly tipped with 

 black, the external one with outer web black; under parts (except chin 

 and throat) yellow, tinged with olive laterally; bill whitish (light 

 brownish in dried skin); legs and feet deep brownish or horn color; 

 length (skin) about lOtt.li; wing, 67.31; tail, 44.46; culmen (about), 

 10.16; depth of bill at base (about), 10.16; tarsas, 16.24; middle toe, 

 8.13. 



Adailt female. — " Head and back, dull olive, lightly mottled with 

 dusky brownish, the rump and upper tail coverts ... a little 

 brighter olive and without any mottling; . . . quills . . . narrowly 

 margined with bright olive yellow; . . . greater, middle, and lesser 

 coverts . . . margined with the dull olive of the back, but the greater 

 and middle coverts . . . also broadly tipped with light olive yellow, 

 forming two distinct wing-bands; . . . rectrices blackish brown, nar- 

 rowly margined with yellowish on . . . inner webs; . . . throat, upper 

 breast, and sides . . . duskj'^ olive-gray; bellyandcrissum whitish, . . . 

 all mottled with blackish-brown shaft streakings; . . . under tail cov- 

 erts broadly marked with blackish shaft streaks." ^ 



Ymmg. — " Similar to adult females, but brighter olive (yellow) above 

 and decidedly yellowish, or yellowish olive, in place of grayish or whit- 

 ish below. "^ 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles (Port au Prince, Le Coup, and 

 mountains near Petionville, Haiti; Aguacate and Catarre, Santo 

 Domingo.) 



Chrysomitris dominicensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soo. N. H., xi, Dec. 5, 1866, 93 

 (Port au Prince, Haiti; U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Coryj Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 

 1881, 152 (near Petionville, Haiti) . 



IFringilla} dominicensis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 81, no. 7185. 



Loximitris dominicensis Coey, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 67, pi. (11) (Le 

 Coup and Port au Prince, Haiti); Auk, iii, 1886, 207; Birds W. I., 1889, 94; 

 Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 111, 131.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 234.— Chbrrie, Pub. 10, Field Columb. Mus., Orn. ser., i, no. 1, 1896, 16 (Agua- 

 cate and Catare, Santo Domingo; descriptions). 



l^LoximHris] dominicensis Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 12. 



Genus ASTRAGALINUS Cabanis. 



Astragalinus'' Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, July, 1851, 159. (Type, Fringilla tristis Lin- 

 naeus. See Ridgway, Auk, xv, 1899, 79. ) 



Pseudomitris Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Soi. Phila., 1865, 93. (Type, Fringilla psaUria, 

 Say.) 



iCherrie, Pub. 10, Field Columb. Mus., Orn. ser.,i, no. 1, 1896, 16. 

 ^ "Von a.(3TpayaXtvo(;, b Distelfink." 



