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Cory on New Haitian Birds . 
feathers, bright yellowish-green. Inner webs of primaries and secondaries 
brown, pale on the edges. Legs and lower mandible dark slate color; 
upper mandible black. Iris reddish-brown. 
Length, 7.00; wing, 3.50; tail, 3.00; tarsus, .90; bill, .72. 
Authors have generally considered this bird to be the female of P. fial- 
marum ; but a careful examination of a large series of the latter species 
proved the sexual difference, if any, to be merely a slight variation in 
size. 
Parra violacea. 
$ ad. Bill and comb pale orange; bare skin at the base of the lower 
mandible pale bluish-white. Head, neck, and upper breast, dark lustrous 
green, back and wing-coverts purple, shading into rich golden-brown near 
the rump ; rump and tail coverts bright purple. Underparts dark purple, 
showing a tinge of dark rufous on the crissum. Most of the primaries and 
secondaries bright yellow, edged with brown ; tail rufous brown ; carpal 
spur pale orange ; legs and feet dull olive ; iris brown. 
Length, 9.00; wing, 5.50; tail, 2.25; tarsus, 2.25; bill, 1.40. 
A single specimen taken, possibly a straggler to the island but apparently 
differing from any known form. 
Myiadestes montanus. 
$ ad. Upper parts and two central tail feathers slaty gray ; primaries 
and secondaries brownish-black, showing white near the base of the inner 
webs ; outer webs of primaries and terminal portion of the outer webs of 
secondaries edged with gray; throat, crissum, and belly near the vent, 
reddish-brown, intermediate between that of M. solitarius and M. sibilans , 
but approaching nearer the color of the former; rest of underparts pale 
gray. Outer tail feather white with black shaft, showing a dark tinge 
near the extremity of the outer web ; second feather black, with the 
central portion of the terminal half white, the black narrowing to the ex- 
tremity leaving the tip white ; third feather showing a triangular patch of 
white at the tip ; rest of tail feathers, except the two central ones, black. 
Bill black; legs and feet pale ; iris brown. 
Length, 7.00; wing, 3.35; tail, 3.38; tarsus, 1.00; bill, .38. 
