22 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 

 4. MYADESTES DOMIXICAXUS Stejneger. 



[Platell, Fig. 5.] 

 1876. — Mi/iadestes genibarbis Lawe. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1878, p. 53. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 77801. ( <? ad. Dominica. F. A. Ober.) 



Second primary two and oue-tliird times the 1st, which is acute and 

 somewhat falcate ; 2d attenuated, but scarcely sinuated at end, inter- 

 mediate in length between 7th and 8th; 3d equal to (5th, normal; 3d, 

 4th, 5th, and 6th longest. Tail somewhat graduated,* the longest 

 feathers equal to or a little shorter than the wing. 



Above slaty plumbeous, with a very faint tinge of olivaceous on head 

 and back ; lores and a narrow stripe above the eyes conspicuously suf- 

 fused with olivaceous ; almost the whole malar stripe whitish, the feathers 

 the lower end tipped with chestnut; chin white, throat pure chestnut; 

 breast, flanks, and abdomen, except the lower middle part of the latter, 

 ash-gray, duller on the breast, more whitish on the abdomen, and very 

 faintly washed with olivaceous, especially on the flanks, where more 

 tinged with rufous ; lower middle of abdomen, crissum, and under tail- 

 coverts chestnut-rufous ; wings and tail as in M. sanctcc-luvia', the light 

 basal spot on the outer web of the innermost primaries being very con- 

 spicuous and well defined ; the black speculum on the secondaries larger, 

 and the amount of white on the outer tail feathers rather less than in 

 that bird ; bill black, feet pale yellow. 



The 9 differs only in having a stronger wash of olive on the back, as 

 Mr. Lawrence has already remarked {I. c). 



A young 9 in the first plumage, shot the 18th of September by Mr. 

 Ober (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 77803) resembles very much the young bird 

 of M. (jeniharUs from Martinique, but may be easily distinguished by 

 the deeper tinge of the rufous, by less well-defined edgings on the under 

 surface, and by the rufous tips of the wing-coverts being larger and 

 better defined, forming two very distinct bands across the wing. Be- 

 sides, the tail shows the same differences as in the adults, the 4th and 

 5th pair being tipped with white in the Dominica bird, while those 

 feathers are uniform black in the typical M. gcnibarbis. 

 Table of dimensions. 



* lu the other sijecimens the middle tail feathers are shorter, the tail thus being 

 emarginated, as in the foregoing species, 

 t Fresh. 



