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at base (three specimens), 8.13; tarsus, 17.78-18.80 (18.29); middle 

 toe, 12.70-13.21 (13.12).^ 



Islands of Old Providence and St. Andrews, Caribbean Sea. 



Euetheia bicolor (not FringlUa hicolor Linnaeus) Cory, Auk, iv, 1887, 181 (St. 



Andrews, Caribbean Sea). 

 Enelheid yrandior Cory, Auk, iv, July, 1887, 245 (Island o£ Old Providence, 



Caribbean Sea; coll. C. B. Cory) . 



Genus MELANOSPIZA Ridg-way. 



Mdmwsplza Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, no. 1116, JIar. 15, 1897, 466 

 footnote.* (Type, Loxigilla richardsoni Cory.) 



Related to Mtetke/n Reichenbach, but bill relatively much larger, 

 and with the subbasal angle of the mandibular tomium produced into 

 a distinct point; also much larger than Euetheia^ and the adult male 

 wholly deep black, except legs and feet, which are brownish white. 



Size medium (wing more than 63.50). Wing three and one-fourth 

 times as long as tarsus, much rounded (ninth primary shorter than 

 third); primaries exceeding secondaries bj^ decidedly less than length 

 of exposed culmen. Tail a little less than three-fourths as long as 

 wing, even or slightly emarginated, the rectrices rather broad, with 

 rounded ends. Tarsus about one and a half times as long as exposed 

 culmen, its scutella obsolete on outer side, indistinct on inner side; 

 middle toe with claw decidedly shorter than tarsus; lateral claws 

 reaching about to base of middle claw; hallux shorter than inner toe,' 

 its flaw nearly as long as the digit. 



Coloration. — Adult male wholly deep black, except legs and feet, 

 which are brownish white; female and young unknown. 



Ban<je. — Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



This bird comes very near, structurally, to Euetlwia, but can hardly 

 be referred to that genus. It bears, superficiallv, a remarkable resem- 



' Six specimens. 



I can not detect any difference between specimens from the two islands, there 

 being an equal number of both sexes from each. Their average measurements are 

 as follows: 



'Inadvertently redescribed in The Auk, xv, July (pub. May 13), 1898, 224 



