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Hab. — Dominica. " Frequents the most gloomy and solitary mount- 

 ain gorges. . . . Never found below 1,000 feet altitude." (Ober, 

 P. IT. S. N, M., 1878, p. 53.) 



Remarks. — Compared with the two foregoing forms, the Dominica 

 bird differs in having the throat of a much richer and deeper tint, being- 

 beautiful chestnut without any mixture of rufous ; the rufous of the 

 abdomen and crissum is still more restricted than in ill. santcclucia;, and 

 is also of a deeper shade, agreeing with the color of the throat in the 

 latter. It also differs from both in having almost the whole of the 

 malar stripe whitish as described above. With the Santa Lucia bird 

 it agrees in having the chin white, and the fourth and fifth pair (count- 

 ing from outside) of the tail-feathers tipped with white, differing in both 

 these respects from the typical M. geniharhis. 



In the tint of the throat the Martinique form is exactly intermediate 

 between the other two, as might be expected on account of the inter- 

 mediate position of this island between Sta. Lucia and Dominica; but 

 it is a strange fact that the birds from these latter islands agree in other 

 respects much better than either of them do with the bird from the 

 island between them. 



The three forms here discussed are very closely allied, but as the 

 differences mentioned above hold good through the extensive series of 

 skins which I have been able to examine, I have not hesitated to describe 

 them as separate forms. The singular relation between their mutual 

 resemblances and the situation of the islands in which they occur, have 

 convinced me that they, although originally grown out from the same 

 parent stock, have how become distinct. 



5. MYADESTES M0:N^TANU!S Cory. 



[Plate II, Fig. 1.] 

 ISSX.—Myxadestei montanus Cory, Bull. Niitt. Oru. Club, 1881, p. 130.— Id. ibid. p. 151. 



Mus. C. B. Cory, Boston, Xo. 1253 ( 9 ad., neighhorhood of Fort 

 Jacques, Haiti. March 3, 1881). 



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

 somewhat falcate, equ,al to the 7th, strongly sinuated and somewhat 

 attenuated at the tip ; 3d longer than theCth, normal; 3d, 4th, and 5th 

 longest. Tail gratuated and emarginated ; middle pair equal to the 

 2d pair (from outside) ; tail-feathers equal to the wing. 



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

 middle of the back; lores, cheeks, and auriculars black, unstreaked; 

 lower eyelid brownish (?) white; chin, throat, and a small patch on the 

 malar apex, rufous-chestnut, or the same color as the throat in M. sanctce- 

 lucice; chin without any white spot ; breast, flanks, and abdomen (except 

 the middle portion of the latter) ash-grey, as light as in M. sibilans, 

 many of the feathers tinged with rufous ; middle and lower abdomen, 

 crissum, and under tail-coverts rufous, exactly like the same parts in 

 sanctcelucia3 ; tibia slaty plumbeous without rufous. Wings and tail 



