BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 69 



Subfamily, SPERMOPHILIN^. 



Genus: LOXIGILLA. Less. 



LOXIGILLA : LESSON, TRAITL D'ORN, p. 443, 1S31. 



LOXIGILLA VIOLACEA. (Linn.) 



Loxia violacea. Linn., Syst. Nat., I. p. 306 (1758). 



Pyrrhula violacea. Gosse, Bds. Jam., p. 254 (1847). 



Loxigilla violacea. Salle, P. Z. S., 1857, p. 231. Scl., P. Z. S., 1861. 

 p. 74. Cat. Am. Bds., p. 102 (1862). — Cory, Bds. Bahama I., 

 p. 85 (1880). Bull. Nutt. On. Club, VI. p. 152 (1881). 



Loxia (Pyrrhzilagra) violacea. Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 XI. p. 93 (1866). 



Pyrrhulagra violacea. Bp., Consp., p. 493 (1850). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Entire plumage black, showing a slight 

 brownish tinge upon the quills ; throat, crissum, and a crescent 

 over the eye, reddish brown ; bill and legs, black. 



Sp. Char., Female. — Upper parts, gray, with a tinge of olive 

 green upon the back ; below, ash, lightest upon the belly, showing a 

 tinge of olive upon the breast and sides ; quills with fine edgings 

 of dull white ; crissum, a crescent over the eye, and markings upon 

 the chin, pale reddish brown, much lighter than in the male ; under 

 mandible, pale. Immature birds resemble the female. 



Length 5.80 ; wing 3 ; tail 2.70 ; tarsus .90 ; bill .50. 



