BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 561 



PYRRHULAGRA BARBADENSIS Cory. 

 BARBADOS BTOIFINOH. 



Similar, in all stages, to the adult female or immature male of 

 P. noctis and allied forms (intermediate in coloration between P. n. 

 sclateri and P. n. ridgwayi), but without the rusty or buffy tinge on 

 lores, etc. 



Adult ma^(^.— Length (skin), 129;54:; wing, 71.88; tail, 49.78; 

 exposed culmen, 13.72; tarsus, 20.32; middle toe, 14.48.^ 



Adult fenmle.—l^Qngth. (skins), 116.08-133.10 (120.65); wing, 65.02- 

 73.66 (70.10); tail, 45.47-53.34 (47.75); exposed culmen, 12.19-13.46 

 (12.70); depth of bill at base, 7.87-8.13 (8.13); tarsus, 19.81-20.32 

 (20.07); middle toe, 13.21-15.24 (14.22).^ 



Island of Barbados, Lesser Antilles. 



According to Mr. Cory the adult male of this form never assumes 

 the black and chestnut-rufous plumage of other forms, but remains in 

 a plumage indistinguishable from that of the adult female. The latter 

 resembles the same sex of the lighter colored allied forms, especially 

 P. noctis sclateri and P. n. ridgwayi, between which it is exactly inter- 

 mediate in coloration, but both sexes lack the distinct buffy or light 

 rusty suffusion to the lores, etc., to be seen in all the other forms. 



Loxigilla noctis (not Fringilla noctis Linnseus) Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1874, 175 (Barbados).— CoKY, Auk, iii, 1886, 204, part; Birds W. I., 1889, 

 290, part.— Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 84, part (Barbados). 



{Loxigilla'] noctis Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 12, part. 



Loxigilla barbadensis Cory, Auk, iii, July, 1886, 382 (Barbados; coll. C. B. Cory); 

 V, 1888, 158; Birds W. I., 1889, 290. 



Pyrrhulagra barbadensis Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 16, 112, 132, 134, 150. 



Genus MELOPYRRHA Bonaparte. 



Melopyrrha Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxvii, 1853, 924. (Type, Loxia nigra 

 Linnaeus?) 



Eather small rounded winged Fringillidse with short, thick, and 

 strongly arched bill, tail about five-sixths as long as wing, rounded, 

 the coloration uniform black or dark slaty with white under wing- 

 coverts. 



Bill short but very deep (exposed culmen shorter -than middle toe 

 without claw and less than depth of bill at base), the culmen strongly 

 convex and the maxillary tomium arched; mandible deeper than the 

 maxilla, with tomium strongly convex anteriorly and abruptly angu- 

 lated just back of the middle; gonys straight, decidedly longer than 

 the mandibular rami, but shorter than the distance from the nostril to 

 the tip of the maxilla; width of mandible at base decidedly greater 



' One specimen, the type. '' Five specimens. 



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