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Show 582 DR. O. FINSCH ON THE BIRDS OF TRINIDAD. [June 23, 79. TACHYPHONUS MELALEUCUS (Sparrm.); Scl. Mon. Tanagr. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 113 ; Taylor, I. c. p. 82. Tachyphonus beauperthuyi (Bp.) ; Loot. p. 299. Male and female (dark fulvous, beneath lighter), agreeing in every respect with specimens from Brazil. There exists a considerable variability in size in this widely distributed species. 80. TACHYPHONUS LUCTUOSUS, Lafr.; Scl. Mon. p. 114. Tachyphonus albispecularis, Leot. p. 300. One specimen changing the plumage; black, upper and under quill-coverts white; some of the remiges and the rectrices dark brown, edged with dirty olive-green on the outer web. The identity of T. albispecularis with T. luctuosus has been already pointed out by Dr. Sclater (Ibis, 1867, p. 108). Fam. FRINGILLID^E. 81. CARDINALIS PHCENICEUS, Gould; Scl. Cat. p. 100. Two specimens, not differing from a specimen from Honduras in the Bremen collection. Not included by Dr. Le'otaud. Mr. Taylor doubts the occurrence of this species in Trinidad (Ibis, 1864, p. 83), which is now confirmed. 82. CYANOLOXIA CYANOIDES (Lafr.). Guiraca cyanoides, Scl. Cat. p. 101. Similar to specimens from Cayenne. This species is also not mentioned in Dr. Le'otaud's work on the birds of Trinidad. 83. VOLATINIA JACARINA (L.); Scl. Cat. p. 106; Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 83. Tiaris jacarina, Leot. p. 312. Spermophila splendens et S. lugubris, Hartl. Verz. 1844, p. 81. Three specimens in old plumage. There is no difference whatever between specimens from Mexico and Brazil, which are before me, as Dr. Cabanis has declared already (J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 2). 84. SPERMOPHILA MINUTA (L.); Scl. Cat. p. 104 ; Leot. p. 322 ; Taylor, /. c. p. 83. An old male, similar to specimens from Cayenne, Guiana, and Columbia. 85. SPERMOPHILA LESSONI, mihi. Pyrrhula bouvronides, Less. Tr. p. 450. Spermophila bouvronides, Scl. Cat. p. 104. Spermophila bouvronoides, Leot. p. 318. Three specimens, of which two show an indistinct white line from |
