BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 547 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Spermophila anoxantha Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 247 (Mount Edgeoumbe, 



Jamaica); Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 62. 

 Loxigilla arwxantha Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 74; Oat. Am. Birds, 



1862, 102.— Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 196.— March, Proc. Ac. Kat. 



Sci. Phila., 1863, 297.— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 219.— Cory, Auk, 



iii, 1886, 203; Birds W. I., 1889, 92.— Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 



1888, 85.— Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 180. 

 lOoniaphea] anoxantha Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 104, no. 7568. 

 ISporophila] anoxantha Giebsl, Thes. Orn., iii, 1877, 518. 

 Pyrrhulagra anoxantha Cory, Cat. Birds W. I., 1892, 16, 112, 130. 

 [Loxigillal anoxantha Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27.— Cory, List 



Birds W. I., 1885, 12. 

 L.[oxigiUa} anoxantha Newto.n" (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 104. 



Genus PYRRHULAGRA Bonaparte. 



Pyrrhulagra Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, July 30, 1850, 492 (ex Schiff, manu- 

 script). (Type, Loxia portoricensis Daudin.) 



Scotospiza SuNDEVALL, Ofv. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., June 9, 1869, 597, in text. 

 (Type, Loxia portoricensis Daudin. ) 



Loxigilla (not Lesson)^ of Authors. 



Small or medium-sized Fringillidae with a short, more or less stout, 

 bill, rather short and rounded wings and tail, and uniform (never 

 streaked or spotted) plumage, the males black with rufous on throat, 

 sometimes also on pileum and under tail-coverts. 



Bill short, more or less stout, much deeper than broad at base; cul- 

 men strongly convex throughout, the exposed portion equal to more 

 than half to more than two-thirds the length of the tarsus; gonj^s 

 straight or very slightlj- convex, much less than length of maxilla from 

 nostril, slightly exceeding (P. noctis) or much less than {P. violacea) 

 width of mandible at base; maxilla about equal in depth to mandible, 

 or at least not distinctly less, its tomia without subterminal notch, 

 slightly concave to the not abrupt basal deflection; mandibular tomium 

 strongly convex, with a shallow notch in front of the distinctly toothed 

 subbasal angle [violacea) or nearly straight to the neither notched 

 nor toothed angle ( noctis) ; culmen sharply ridged {noctis) or scarcely 

 ridged {violacea). Nostrils minute and circular {violacea), or larger, 

 longitudinally ovate {noctis), nearly' concealed bj^ dense frontal feath- 

 ers. Rictal bristles not obvious. Wing nearly four times as long as 

 tarsus, rounded; eighth to fifth primaries longest, the ninth shorter 

 than the fourth {noctis), or seventh to fifth longest, with ninth shorter 

 than third {violacea); primaries exceeding secondaries by less than 

 length of exposed culmen {violacea) or more {noctis). Tail about three- 

 fourths {noctis) to seven-eighths {violacea) as long as wing, slightlj^ 

 rounded, the rectrices broad. Tarsus less {?ioctis) to more {violacea) 

 than one-third as long as tail, its scutella distinct; middle toe with 



^ Loxigilla Lesson, Traits d'Orn., 1831, 443. 



