354 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 



5. Blacicus brunncicafilliis. 



Blacicus Blancoi, Lawr., nee Gundlach. 



Male. The plumage above is of a clear olive-brown, assuming 

 an ochreous cast on the rump ; the crown is of a much darker 

 brown, forming a decided cap ; tail and quill-feathers brownish- 

 black ; the tertials are edged with very pale fulvous ; the throat is 

 gray with just a tinge of fulvous on the lower part ; middle of 

 breast, abdomen, and under wing-coverts reddish-ochreous, under 

 tail-coverts of the same color, but paler ; sides of the breast oliva- 

 ceous ; upper mandible black, the under pale yellowish-white ; tarsi 

 and toes brownish-black. 



Length (fresh), 5| inches ; wings, 2-| ; tail, 2| ; tarsus, -|. 



Habitat, Dominica. Mr. Ober says : " Everywhere abundant in 

 the ravines and dark valleys of the mountains." 



Type in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. In "A Provisional List of the Birds of Dominica," 

 published in ' Forest and Stream,' December 6, 1877, this bird was 

 put as Blacicus Blancoi, Gundlach. Wishing to make a comparison 

 with the type, I desired Dr. Gundlach to loan it to me for that pur- 

 pose, with which request he kindly complied. The specimen was 

 received quite recently, and I found that, though closely allied, the 

 two birds are quite distinct. 



B. Blancoi is from Porto Rico ; the specimen sent is mounted, 

 and is of somewhat smaller dimensions than the bird from Domin- 

 ica ; the wing measures i\ inches ; the tail, 2\ ; the tarsus, T 9 g. The 

 crown is olive-brown, which color gradually merges into the greenish- 

 olive of the back and rump. In the new species the crown is deep 

 brown, and the upper plumage olive-brown ; it also differs in having 

 the throat gray, which in the other is light fulvous ; the color of the 

 abdomen is rather paler than it is in B. Blancoi. 



In another specimen of the new species, a female, "in young of 

 the year plumage," the feathers of the wings and back are strongly 

 marked with rufous, yet the upper plumage is as decidedly brown as 

 in the adult, and the throat gray. 



6. Strix flammed^ var. nigrcscens, 

 [Dominica Catalogue, p. 64.] 



