1. P. zena. Culmen decidedly curved. Above dull grayish olive-green. ♂. Head and lower parts, especially anteriorly, dull black, mixed with whitish posteriorly. ♀. Head and beneath ashy. Wing, about 2.00; tail, 1.75. _Hab._ West Indies (Cuba, Hayti, Porto Rico, St. Bartholomew, Jamaica, etc.); also Key West, Florida (MAYNARD). B. Head with yellow patches. 2. P. pusilla. Culmen perfectly straight. Above rather bright olive-green. ♂, a supraloral stripe, a patch on chin, and upper part of throat, with edge of wing, bright yellow; forehead, lores, and jugulum black. ♀ with the black and yellow only indicated, or wanting. Whole crown, cheeks, breast, and upper part of abdomen black. _Hab._ Middle America, from Mirador to Panama, and southward var. _pusilla_.[12] Only isolated spots, covering forehead, lore, and base of lower jaw, and patch on jugulum, black. _Hab._ West Indies. (Porto Rico, Hayti, Jamaica, Cuba, etc.) var. _olivacea_.[13] 3. P. canora.[14] Culmen decidedly curved. Above bright olive-green; beneath pale ashy, whitish on anal region. A bright yellow broad crescent across the lower part of the throat, curving upward and forward, behind and over the auriculars, to above the eye. ♂. Lores, auriculars, and chin, and a band across the jugulum, black. ♀. Chin, etc., chestnut-brown; no black on jugulum. _Hab._ Cuba. [12] _Tiaris pusilla_, SWAINSON, Phil. Mag. I, 1827, 438. _Phonipara pusilla_, SCLATER, P. Z. S. 1855, 159. [13] _Emberiza olivacea_, GMELIN, Syst. Nat. I, 309. _Phonipara olivacea_, SCLATER, P. Z. S. 1855, 159. [14] _Loxia canora_, GMELIN, Syst. Nat. I, 858. _Phonipara canora_, BONAP. Phonipara zena, BRYANT. THE BLACK-FACED FINCH. _Fringilla zena_, LINN. Syst. Nat. I, (ed. 10,) 1758, 183 (based on _Passer bicolor bahamensis_, CATESBY, Carol. I, tab. 37, Bahamas).—BRYANT, Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. X, 1865, 254. _Fringilla bicolor_, LINN. Syst. Nat. I, (ed. 12,) 1766, 324 (same original as _zena_). _Spermophila bicolor_, GOSSE (Jamaica). _Phonipara bicolor_, NEWTON (St. Croix). _? Tiaris omissa_, JARDINE, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1847, 332 (Tobago). _Phonipara omissa_, SCLATER. _Phonipara marchi_, BAIRD, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phila. Nov. 1863, 297 (Jamaica). _Fringilla zena_, var. _marchi_, BRYANT, Pr. Bost. Soc. 1867, 43. _Fringilla (Phonipara) zena_, var. _portoricensis_, BRYANT, Pr. Bost. Soc. X, 1865, 254 (Porto Rico). SP. CHAR. _Male adult_ (627, Bryant coll.; Inagua). Above dull olive-green, the head and lower parts black, the two colors blending insensibly into each other; feathers of the middle of the abdomen and crissum edged with whitish. Wing, 2.10; tail, 1.80, culmen, .35; tarsus, .63; middle toe, .50.