MYIADESTES. 



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The species of Soutli American Myiadestes, mentioned in the 

 foot-note, I have not been able to examine.* 



Myiadestes solitariiis. 



3Iyiadestes solitarius, Baird, n. s. 



Mitscicapa armillata, GossE, Birds Jam. 1847, 198 (not of Vieillot).— 

 Ptilogonys armUlatus, Gray & Mitchell, Gen. Birds, I, pi. 69. — 

 ScLATEK, p. Z. S. IB'Jl, IS.—Mi/iaclesies arm. Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1857, 

 6.— Ib. Catal. ISGl, 47.— March, Pr. A. N. Sc. Phila. 1863, 294. 



Hab, Jamaica. 



Myiaiestes solitarius, Baied. (Jamaica.) 



' Myiadestes griseiventer. 



Ptilogonys griseiventer, Tsch. Arch. Nat. 1844. — Ib. Fauna Peraana, 

 1846-7, 140. — Myiadestes griseiventer, Cab. Arch. Nat. 1847, 1, 209. 



Rufous olive ; forehead cinereous ; cap olivaceous, with some rufous spots. 

 Upper wing coverts black, the outer web and tip edged with rufous ; primaries 

 "brown, edged externally with olive ; secondaries with inner webs white at 

 "base. Beneath gray ; crissum rufous. Middle tail feathers like the back, the 

 two outer with hinder part of inner web white, the others black, tipped with 

 white. 



Bill blackish-brown; lower jaw paler in middle. Legs yellowish-brown^ 

 Irids blackish-brown. 



Length, 6.80 ; tarsus, .83 ; tail, 3.33 ; wings, 3.82. 



Myiadestes ardesiaceus. 



Myiadestes ardesiaceus. Less. Desc. Mamm. et d'Ois. (CEuvres Comp. 



de Buflfon, ed. Didier, 1847, VII), 1847, S19. Brazil. 



Bill black ; tarsi brown. Body above brownish-slate ; cheeks, fore part and 



sides of neck, sides of breast and flanks dusky brown ; the middle of body, 



from thorax to' lower-tail coverts, white, tinged with very pale yellow ; thighs 



brown. Length, 16 centimetres. 



This bird has not been identified as a Myiadestes by authors, and may belong 

 to another genus, especially as Lesson places in the same genus with it the 

 Setophaga ornata of Boiss. 



