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Show 1874.] MR. P. L. SCLATER O N CENTROPSAR. 175 been in spirit, I should not venture to distinguish the Barbadian form until further specimens are received for comparison. 3. LOXIGILLA NOCTIS (Linn.). Also found in Martinique and S. Lucia. 4. PHONIPARA BICOLOR (Linn.). This is the " Parson Sparrow" of Barbadoes. I cannot now distinguish the forms of the various islands, Venezuela, and Columbia, and unite them all (including P. omissa, Jard.) under this name. P. marchii, Baird, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1863, p. 297, of Jamaica and St. Croix is perhaps distinct. 5. QUISCALUS FORTIROSTRIS, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1868, . p. 360. My single specimen is apparently a female of the species recently described by Mr. Lawrence. I have lately come to the conclusion that the species of this genus from S. Lucia and Martinique, which in my paper on the birds of the former island (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 271) I referred to the continental Q. lugubris, must stand as distinct, having a longer and more incurved bill, and a brown female, whereas in Q. lugubris the sexes are similar in plumage. In order to avoid giving it a fresh name I call it Q. injiexirostris, Sw., though the bill certainly does not quite agree with Swainson's figure (An. in Menag. p. 300). 6. ELAINEA MARTINICA (Linn.) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 271. 7. E U L A M P I S HOLOSERICEUS (Linn.). 8. ORTHORHYNCHUS CRISTATUS (Linn.). 9. CHAM^EPELIA PASSERINA (Linn.). 3. On Centropsar, an apparently new Form of the Family Icterida. By P. L. SCLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., Secretary to the Society. [Received February 23, 1874.] (Plate XXVI.) In a large collection of bird-skins which has lately passed through the hands of Mr. Edward Bartlett, and of which he has kindly submitted a selection to my examination, I find a single example of a form that is quite new to me, as also to other ornithologists to whom I have shown it. Judging by the beak and wings, it would appear to belong to the family Icteridae, or Starlings of the New World; but its feet are slender, and have a straight elongated hind claw, and the rectrices are stiffened, so that it cannot be referred to any known genus of that family. I therefore propose to introduce it to science under the new generic title Centropsar (icevrpov, calcar, et \pap, sturnus), with the following characters. |