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You/ig, after first molt. — Above grayish olive or deep olive-gray, 

 beneath decidedly paler, especially on abdomen; legs and feet, and 

 sometimes bill, dark horn brownish; rufous markings of the adult 

 present, that of the throat, however, much restricted and more or less 

 broken. 



Young in first plum.age. — Similar to the preceding, but coloration 

 much less grayish, the upper parts broccoli brown, the under parts 

 dull light grayish buff}', darker on chest, sides, and flanks; rufous 

 markings as in the preceding. 



Iviiiiature. — Variously intermediate between the grayish young and 

 black adult. 



Bahama Islands (Great Bahama; Abaco; Berry Islands; Eleuthera; 

 New Providence; Andros; San Salvador; Long Island; Acklin Island; 

 North Caicos; Grand Caicos; East Caicos; Maragauna; Great Inagua). 



[io.rid] violacea LiNNiEUS, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 176 (Bahamas; based on 

 Coccothraustes purpurea Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i, 40, pi. 40); ed. 12, i, 

 1766, 306.— Gmelix, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 864.— Lath.\.m, Index Orn., i, 1790, 

 379. 



[Pyrrhulagra] violacm Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 493. 



Pyrrhidagra riolacea Ridgway, Auk, viii, Oct., 1891, 334 (Abaco I.), 335 (New 

 Providence I.), 336 (Eleuthera I.), 337 (Cat 1.).— Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 

 1892, 15, 112, 148, part (Bahamas) . 



[Lomgilla] violacea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27, part.— Cohy, 

 List Birds W. I., 1885, 12, part. 



Lorigilla violacea Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 85; Auk, iii, 1886, 203 part (Baha- 

 mas); viii, 1891, 294 (New Providence I.), 295 (Berry Islands), 297 (Caicos 

 and Inagua islands) , 298 (Abaco I.), 350 (Great Bahama and Abaco islands), 

 351 (Eleuthera and Inagua islands); ix, 1892, 48 (Maragauna I.), 49 (Inagua 

 I.); Birds W. I., 1889, 90, part (Bahamas).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit, ilus., 

 xii, 1888, 82, part (Bahamas) .-Northrop, Auk, viii, 1891, 70 (Andros I.). 



Spemophila violacea Bryaxt, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 119 (Bahamas). 



l^Qoniaphea'] violacea Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 104, no. 7652. 



Pyrrhula supercUiosa Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., iv, 1816, 300 (based on 

 Loxia violacea I^innseus) . 



(?) Pyrrhula rufobarbata (not Fringilla rufobarbata Jacquin, 1784) Hahx and 

 KusTBR, Vog. aus Asien, etc., Pt. vii, 1850, pi. 6.' 



[Loxigilla violacea] /3. bahamensia Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, Dec. 10, 1878, 

 250 (Bahamas; U. S. Nat. Mus.) . 



PYRRHULAGRA VIOLACEA RUFICOLLIS (Gmelin). 

 JAMAICAN BULLFINOH, 



Similar to P. v. violacea but wing and tail averaging decidedly 

 longer; adults with rufous of throat and superciliarj^ mark lighter 

 (clear ferruginous instead of nearly brick red), the latter decidedly 

 smaller; immature birds much darker and more olivaceous than those 

 of P. V. violacea, the upper parts deep or dark olive instead of grayish 

 olive or olive-grayish. 



'Reference from Sharpe; may belong to the Haitian or Jamaican forms. 



