550 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



PYRRHULAGRA PORTORICENSIS (Daudin). 

 PORTO MOAN BTTLLFINOH. 



Adult male. — Pileum (except forehead), chin, throat, chest, and 

 under tail-coverts orange-rufous, the first extending much farther 

 backward laterally than medially, the second with a strongly .convex 

 and abrupt posterior outline; rest of plumage uniform rich black; 

 bill, legs, and feet black; length (skins), 167.13-182.63 (171.50); wing, 

 86.61-92.96 (89.92); tail, 69.60-77.72 (73.15); exposed culmen, 15.49- 

 17.53 (16.51); depth of bill at base, 13.21-11:.99 (13.97);" tarsus, 23.37- 

 21.38 (23.88); middle toe, 11.99-17.53 (16.00). ^ 



Adult female. — Similar to adult male, but averaging rather smaller 

 and with the black slightly less intense. Length (skins), 160.02-169.93 

 (164.08); wing, 80.01-88.39 (83.06); tail, 67.06-76.20 (70.87); exposed 

 culmen, 13.97-17.27 (14.99); depth of bill at base, 11.94-14.99 (13.46); 

 tarsus, 21.84-24.64 (22.86); middle toe, 14.73-17,27 (15.75).' 



Immature. — Above deep olive-brown, beneath paler olive-brown or 

 olive; under tail-coverts orange-rufous; bill, legs, and feet dusky. 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. 



Loxla jMrtoricensis Daudin, Traits d'Orn., ii, 1809, 411 (Porto Rico; based on 



Passer niger, punctis croceis, Sloane, Jamaica). — Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. 



^r, H., X, 1866, 254, 

 P.[itylus) portoricensis GEAy,Gen. Birds, ii, 1848, 362. 

 IPiirrhular/m^ portoricensis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 493. 

 Pyrrhulagra portorirensis Gundlach, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 303.— 



CoRT, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 112, 132, 149. 

 [Sporophilal piortoricensis Giebel, Thes. Orn., iii, 1877, 522. 

 \_Goniaphea\ portoricensis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 104, no. 7564. 

 LoxigiUd portoricensis Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 205 (synonymy and descr. ); Birfs 



^\. I., 1889, 92 (do.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 87. 

 [Loxigilla] portoricensis Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 12. 



Srotospiza portor.licensis] Suxdevall, Ofv. K. Vet.-Ak. Forh., 1869, 597, in text. 

 Pyrrhula auranticollis Yieillot, Nouv. Die. d'Hist. Xat., iv, 1816, 300 (based on 



Loxia portoricensis Dau&in) ; Enc. Mfth., 1823, 1028. 



PYRRHULAGRA GRANDIS (Lawrence). 

 ST. CHRISTOPHER BULLFINCH. 



Similar to P. fortmiceiuk but much larger and with the rufous 

 markings darker (intermediate between ferruginous and vinaceous- 

 ruf ous) ; that of the throat more restricted, scarcely extending to the 

 chest, and that of the under tail-coverts mixed with black. 



Adult )»ff/c^— Length (skins), 199.14-208.28 (205.99); wing, 97.79- 

 101.60 (99.67); tail, 77.47-83.31 (80.52); exposed culmen, 20.57-21.59 

 (20.83); depth of bill at base, 16.51-17.27 (17.02); tarsus, 26.16-27,43 

 (26.67); middle toe, 19.0.5-20.07(19.56).'' 



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^ Seven specimens. ^ Five specimens. 



