BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 563 



Pijrrhula nigra Vieillot, Gal. Ois., i, 1825, 65, pi. 57. — Vigors, Zool. Journ., iii, 

 1827, 440.— D'Orbigny, iiiLaSagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1838, 87, pi. 17.— 

 GuNDLACH, Journ. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1851, 317. 



iS. [permophila] nigra Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 386. 



ISporophila] nigra Bon.^paktb, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 498 ("Mexico"; Antilles). 



Melopyrrha nigra Cab-anis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 8. — Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soo. 

 N. Ii., vii, 1860, 307.— Scxater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 103 (Cuba).— Gind- 

 I.ACH, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 285; Journ. fur Orn., 1874, 125.— 

 Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 206; Birds ^\. I., 1889, 93, part (Cuba) ; C^at. W. I. 

 Birds, 1892, 15, 112, part (do.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 

 141.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 309 (near Trinidad, Cuba; 

 song) . 



IMelopyrrha'] nif/ra Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 28. — Coby, List 

 Birds W. I., 1885, 12. 



[^Goniaphea'] nigra Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 104, nos. 7560, 7566. 



Fyrrhula crenirostris YiEihiiOT, Ois. Chant., 1805, 77. 



MELOPYRRHA TAYLORI Hartert. 

 GRAND CAYMAN BTJLLFINCH. 



Similar to 31. nigra but decidedly larger; adult male less glossy 

 black, with the gloss rather greenish than violet-bluish, the primar\'- 

 coverts wholly white, and (in fresh plumage) the lateral rectrices 

 margined terminall}- with grayish white; adult female and immature 

 male much lighter in color than in M. nigra., the general color dull 

 slate, tinged with olive, darker on the head and much lighter (olive- 

 grayish) on posterior under parts. 



Adult male.— \i%n^\i (skins), 129.54-132.08 (130.30); wing, 67.56- 

 72.90 (70.36); tail, 59.94-64.01 (61.98); exposed culmen, 13.21-13.46 

 (13.37); depth of bill at base, 12.95-13.46 (13.31); tarsus, 18.80-19.30 

 (19.05); middle toe, 13.21-13.46 (13.33).^ 



■Adult female.— \j&-a^t\L (skins), 120.65-129.54 (126.24); wing, 65.02- 

 t)8.58 (67.06); tail, 57.15-61.21 (59.18); exposed culmen, 12.70; depth 

 of bill at base, 12.45; tarsus, 19.05-20.32 (19.56); middle toe, 13.21- 

 13.46 (13.29).' 



Island of Grand Cayman, off south coast of Cuba. 



Melopyrrha nigra (not Loxia nigra Linnaeus) Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 501 (Grand 

 Cayman); Birds W. I., 1889, 93, part (do.) ; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 15, 112 

 (do.). 



Melopyrrha taylori Hartert, Novitates Zoologicse, iii, no. 3, Sept., 1896, 257 (Grand 

 Cayman; TringMus.). 



Genus SPOROPHILA Cabanis. 



Spermophila {not Spermophilus CnYier, 1822) Swainsox, Zool. Journ., iii, 1827,348. 



(Type, Fringilla hypoleuca Lichenstein. ) 

 Sporophila Cabavis, in Tschudi's Fauna Peruana, Aves, 1844-6, 211; Weigmann's 

 Archiv. fiir Naturg. 1844, 291. (Type, Spermophila luctuosa Lafresnaye.) 



'Three specimens, one of them (the smallest) immature. 

 ^ Three specimens. 



