BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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FAMILY 



FRINGILLIDyE. 



Subfamily, F R I N G I L L I N JE . 



Genus: LOXIMITRIS. Bryant. 

 LOXIMITRIS: BRYANT, PR. BOST. SOC. NAT. HIST, XI. p. 93, 1866. 



LOXIMITRIS DOMINICENSIS. Bryant. 



Chrysomitris (Loximitris) dominicensis. Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 



Hist., XI. p. 93 (1866). 

 Chrysomitris dominicensis. Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. p. 152 



(188.1). 



Sp. Char., Male. — " Bill, light brown color, with the top dusky ; 

 whole head and throat, black ; back and scapulars, olive ; the centre 

 of each feather dusky; upper tail coverts, bright olive yellow; 

 wings, with the quills and coverts, blackish brown ; the smaller 

 coverts with so much of the tips olive as to appear almost wholly 

 of this color; the greater coverts and all the quill-feathers, except 

 the first, bordered externally with the same color, very narrowly 

 on the primaries, and suddenly wider on the secondaries, but only 

 on the posterior half, so that the closed wing presents a distinct 

 blackish bar, running nearly across its centre ; tail with the centre 

 feather, outer web of first, and tips of all, blackish brown, the rest 



