560 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL NUSEUM. 



Islands of St. Eustatius and St. Christopher (also Anguilla, Saba, 

 and Barbuda?), Lesser Antilles. 



[LoTigilld] noclk (not Frinrj'dla noctin Linnseus) Sclater and Salvix, Nom. Av. 



Neoti., 1873, 27, part— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 12, part. 

 (?) Lo.cigiUa 7iocf.k Lawbencb, Proc. U. S. Nat. ilus. , i, 1878, 239, part, 487, part 



(Barbuda).— (?) Cory, Auk, viii, 1891, 46 (Anguilla).— (?) Sclater, Pro« 



Zool. Soc. Lond., 1892, 499 (Anguilla). 

 Loxlgilla noctls Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 204, in text (St. 



Christopher).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 204, part; viii, 1891, 47 (St. Eustatius) , 48 



(St. Christopher); Birds W. I., 1889, 91, part. 

 Pyrrhulagra noctis ridgwayi, part, Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 112, 150 (St. 



Eustatius; St. Christopher; Anguilla?; Barbuda?). 

 Pyrrhulagra coryi Ridgway, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 323 (St. Eustatius, Lesser 



Antilles; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



PYRRHULAGRA NOCTIS GRENADENSIS Cory. 

 GRENADA BULLFINCH. 



Similar to J*, n. crissalis but chestnut- rufous throat-patch more 

 restricted, not extending farther backward than end of auricular region; 

 under tail-coverts sometimes partlj' black. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 113.54-132.59 (122.68); wing, 67.31- 

 69.09 (68.33); tail, 46.99-50.55 (18.51); exposed' culmen, 12.19-13.21 

 (12.70); depth of bill at base, 8.13-8.38; tarsus, 17.78-20.07 (19.05); 

 middle toe, 13.21-14.22 (13.72).^ 



Adult female.— .'Length (skins), 107.95-128.78 (114.81); wing, 63.76- 

 66.55 (65.53); tail, 44.20-45.97 (45.47); exposed culmen, 11.94-12.70 

 (12.19); tarsus, 18.54-19.30 (18.80); middle toe, 12.95-13.97(13.46).' 



Island of Grenada, Lesser Antilles. 



The relationships of this form both to P. n.propinqua (Lawrence), of 

 Guiana (see page 000), and P. n. crivscdis, of St. Vincent, are very close. 

 It agrees very exactly with the former in average measurements, but 

 apparently adult males^ of P. u. grenadeims are more intensely black 

 and have the chestnut-rufous throat-patch extending farther backward, 

 the lower throat being black in P. n. projyinqua. From P. n. crissalis 

 it differs in the opposite way so far as the extent of the throat-patch is 

 concerned. How far these supposed differences maj' depend on the 

 "make" of the skins examined it is difficult to determine. 



[_Loxigilla'] noctia (not Fringilla noctis Linnteus) Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, 27, part.— Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 12, part. 



LoxigiUa noctis Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 269, 487, part (Gren- 

 ada) ; ix, 1886, 614 (Grenada; habits; descr. nest and eggs).— Cory, Auk, 

 iii, 1886, 204, part; Birds W. I., 1889, 91, part.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit, 

 ilus. xii, 1888, 84, part (Grenada) . 



Pyrrhulagra noctis grenadensis Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 112, 150, part 

 (type from Grenada, Lesser Antilles; coll. C. B. Cory). 



' Five specimens. 

 '' Four specimens. 

 ' No females nor immature males of P. n. propinqua have been seen by me. 



