BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 523 



SICALIS JAMAICA Sharpe. 

 JAMAICAN YELLOW FINCH. 



'^ Adult male. — Similar to S. Jlaveola,'^ but brighter and more uni- 

 form yellow above, with the bright orange of the crown continued to 

 the nape; 'upper mandible blackish, lower one horny; feet horn- 

 color; iris hazel' (Gosse). Total length, 119.38;^ culmen, 10.16; wing, 

 66.04; tail, 45.72; tarsus, 41.91. 



"Three males from Jamaica agree in the above characters. They 

 have the wing, 73. 66-76. 20. " (Sharpe. ) 



Jamaica. 



This species I have not seen. It seems to be very rare in collections. 



Crithagra brasiliensis (not Emberiza brasiliensis Gmelin) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 



1847, 245; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 61.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 



Phila., 1863, 298 (Jamaica). 

 Sycalin brasiliensis Albhecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 197 (Jamaica). — Sclatee, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 74 (Jamaica). 

 Sycalis flaveola (not Fringilla flaveola Linnseus) Sclater, Ibis, 1872, 41, part 



(Jamaica) . 

 \_Sycalis\ flaveola Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 13 (Jamaica). 

 Sicalis flaveola Com, Auk, iii,_1886, 213 (Jamaica); Birds AV. I., 1889, 100 (do.). 

 S. \_ycalis'\ /nwa (not Fringilla flava Miiller) A. and E. Newton, Handb. Birds 



Jamaica, 1881, 117 (considered an introduced species) . 

 [Sycalis flaveola.} Subsp. a. Sycalis jamaicee Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 



1888, 379 (Jamaica; Brit. Mus.). 

 SycciUa jamaicse Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 113, 130, 151. 

 Sicalis flaveola jamaicxScoTi, Auk, x, April, 1893, 179. 



SICALIS CHRYSOPS Sclater. 

 MEXICAN YELLOW FINCH. 



Adadt male. — Forehead, sides of head and neck, and rump olive- 

 yellow, the first with a few narrow and indistinct streaks of darker; 

 crown, occiput, hindneck, and lower back yellowish olive-green, 

 streaked with dusky; back and scapulars grayish brown, tinged with 

 olive-green, broadly streaked with black, the black streaks more or 

 less edged with brown; upper tail-coverts and last row of lesser wing- 

 coverts light yellowish gray, the latter dusky basally; smaller lesser 

 wing-coverts yellowish olive-green; wings and tail dusky, the larger 

 wing-coverts and tertials broadly margined with pale wood brown, the 

 primaries and rectrices edged with pale grayish yellow; supraloral spot, 

 malar region, and entire under parts canary yellow, paler posteriorly 

 (longer under tail-coverts almost white at tips), the sides faintly tinged 

 with olive; maxilla dusky horn color, mandible pale horn color; legs 



^ Sicalis flaveoki is a South American species, ranging over the greater part of the 

 continent. \_Fringilla\ flaveola Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 321. — Sycalis flaveola, 

 Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1871, 231; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 377. 



^The measurements in inches and decimals in the original. 



