_Spermophila adoxa._—+Mihi.+
[72] Length 4¹⁄₄ inches, expanse 6¹⁄₂, flexure 2, tail 1⁶⁄₁₀,
(nearly,) rictus ⁷⁄₂₀, tarsus ⁷⁄₁₀, middle toe ⁷⁄₁₀. Irides dark
brown, feet purplish, beak horn-colour, nearly black above. Whole
upper parts, olive brown: under parts greyish white: sides and vent
fawn-colour.
Of this very plain and unpretending species, but a single specimen has
fallen into my hands; which I shot on the 9th of August 1845, hopping
with others about logwood trees at Grand Vale. It may be a female of an
unrecorded species, but its fawn-coloured sides distinguish it from
the females of the preceding two species, with which in other respects
it well agrees, as they do still more with each other.
The name of _Quit_ is applied without much discrimination by the
negroes of Jamaica, to several small birds, such as the Banana Quit,
which is a Creeper, and the Blue Quit, and Grass Quits which are
finches; it is probably an African designation.