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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



FAMILY 



TAN AGRID^. 



Subfamily, TANAGRIN^. 



Genus: SPINDALIS. Jard. 

 SPINDALIS: JARD. AA r D SELBY, "ILL. ORN., N. S., 1836." 



SPINDALIS MULTICOLOR. {Vieill.) 



Tanagra multicolor. Vieill., Enc. Meth., p. 776; Gal. Ois., I. 

 p. 100, pi. 76. 



Spindalis multicolor. Bp., Consp., p. 240 (1850). — Scl., P. Z. S., 

 1856, p. 230. — Salle, P. Z. S., 1857, p. 231. — Cory, Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, VI. p. 152 (1881). 



Tanagra dominiccnsis. Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XI. p 92 

 (1868). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Head, black; a superciliary stripe from the 

 forehead to the nape ; a broad stripe of black from the bill, through 

 the eye, to the neck; chin, white, the white extending in a stripe 

 below the black of the cheek to the neck ; rest of throat black, 

 with a yellow stripe in the centre, reaching the white of the chin ; 

 breast, chestnut, shading into yellow upon the underparts and sides ; 

 a collar of bright orange yellow upon the nape, joining the white 

 stripe of the throat; back, olive; rump, chestnut; abdomen and 

 crissum, white; tail, brownish black; the inner webs of the two 



