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large and strong, the upper mandible is black, the under also, but 

 showing a brownish tinge ; tarsi and toes dark brown. 



Length (fresh), 9] in.; wing, 4.1 ; tail, 3$ j tarsus, 1 \ ; bill from 

 front, |. 



Type in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. There is but one specimen in the collection ; in the 

 section {Planesticus) which this species comes under, the sexes do 

 not differ. 



In the distribution of colors on the under plumage, it is much like 

 T. albiventriS) but the color of the breast and sides is darker, and 

 the upper plumage is of a much deeper and richer brown. The 

 strong black bill is a striking feature. 



Mr. Obersays: "Not abundant; obtained in Rutland Vale, Janu- 

 ary 25, 1878." 



13. Myiadcstcs sibilans. " Soufriere Bird." 



The upper plumage is black ; the front, lores, and sides of the 

 head for a short distance under the eye, are intense black ; the 

 crown, occiput, hind neck and ear coverts are deep black ; the upper 

 part of the back is not quite so deep in color, as it has a slight 

 smoky tinge ; the lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail-cov- 

 erts have a wash of dull olivaceous, the latter terminate with black ; 

 the ear-coverts have their shafts narrowly streaked with white, less 

 striking than in M. genibarbis ; the lower eyelid is pure white ; the 

 chin and the anterior part of the rictal stripe are white, the posterior 

 part of the latter is cinnamon-red ; a very distinct black moustachial 

 line starts from the under mandible, and joins the black of the side 

 of the neck, separating the rictal stripe from the bright cinnamon- 

 red color of the throat ; the breast and upper part of the abdomen 

 are of a clear plumbeous gray ; the middle and lower part of the 

 abdomen and the under tail-coverts are of a rather paler cinnamon- 

 red than the throat ; the thighs are blackish plumbeous, some of the 

 feathers ending with light-red ; the quills are black, the edge of the 

 wing and bases of the quill-feathers are white ; the tail-feathers, 

 except the outer two, are brownish slate-color, marked transversely 

 with black bars, which are not very conspicuous ; the first lateral 

 feather has the inner web grayish-white, with a blackish diagonal 

 mark at the base, the outer web is black for one quarter of its length 

 from the base, the remaining part of a dusky ash-color ; the second 

 feather is blackish, except that it has for half its length, on the inner 

 web, an elongated white mark along the shaft, widening out to the 



