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The bill is nearly at the maximum size for the genus, is largely 

 light-colored at base below, and not perfectly black elsewhere, as in 

 var. cooperi, another subtropical form. The rufous coloration is 

 at the maximum both of intensity and extent ; it occupies a part 

 or the whole of every single feather of the wings and tail and their 

 coverts ; it is intense on the outer edges of the primaries, paler on 

 the inner edges of these and other remiges, paler still (yet not 

 whitish) on the outer edges of the inner remiges; it tips and 

 edges all the upper coverts, and suffuses all the under coverts, 

 both of wings and tail ; it usually occupies the whole outer rectrix, 

 and whole inner web of the other rectrices (saving the middle pair), 

 excepting a narrowest possible shaft line ; moreover, it narrowly 

 edges the outer webs of the rectrices. In fact, the tail might be 

 described as rufous, with the central rectrices and a narrow 

 shaft line on the others, fuscous. Nothing like this is known to 

 occur in any continental form. Likewise the bird has a peculiar 

 sordid aspect below, arising from impurity both of the ash and the 

 yellow ; which colors have no definite line of separation. 



Jamaica the only recorded locality. 



No synonymical questions involved. 



Specimens examined, five. 

 2. Myiarchus crinitus. 



a. var. crinitus. 



Muscicapa crinita, L., S. N. i. 325. 



Tyrannus crinitus, Sws., Quart. J. xx. 1826, 271. 



Myiobius crinitus, Gr., G. B. i. 248. 



Tyrannula crinita, Bp., C. A. i. 189. 



Myiarchus crinitus, Cab., J. f. 0. iii. 1855, 479, et auct. 



Myionax crinitus, Cab., M. H. ii. 73. 



Myiarchus (Myionax) crinitus, Scl., C. A. B. 232. 



Pyrocephalus (Myionax) crinitus, Gr., H.-L. No. 5518. 



Muscicapa ludoviciana, Gm., S. N. i. 934. 



Tyrannus ludovicianus V., O. A. S. i. pi. 45. 



Muscicapa virginea, Mull. (G. R. Gr.) 



M. virginea cristala, Briss. Orn. ii. 412. P. E. 569, f. 1. (G. R. Gr.) 



Crested Flycatcher, Anglice. 



M. inter majores, rostro moclico, tarso breviore, coloribus Claris ; 

 olivaceus, gula cinerea, nine ventre, crisso tectricibusque alarum 

 inferioribus flavis ; rernigibus primariis et extus et intus, rectricibus 

 (mediis exceptis) intus nee extus rufomarginatis ; rectrice exteriore, 

 rernigibus secondariis, tectricibusque alarum superioribus flavidal- 

 1872.] 



