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marked as in the allied species, with the exception that the gray on the 

 outer web of the outer tail-feathers is more restricted and lighter in 

 shade ; fourth and fifth pair without white tips. Bill black ; legs yellow ; 

 claws a little more dusky. 



Total length (fresh) ITT'""^; wing So'^'^f tail feathers 85'""^; tarsus 

 23™'° ; middle toe with claw 20"»"i ; exposed culmen 10™"'. 



Hab. — Haiti. — The only specimen which is yet known was procured 

 by Mr. Charles B. Cory in the neighborhood of Fort Jacques, Haiti, 

 He states {I. c.) that it is " an apparently rare species, frequenting the 

 summits of the highest mountains." 



EemArks. — This species may be distinguished from the nearly related 

 M. solitariits from Jamaica by the absence of the white spot on the 

 extreme chin angle, and by having the malar spot rufous instead of 

 white. The color of the throat is less chestnut, being considerably 

 mixed with rufous ; the gray color of the breast and upper abdomen is 

 much clearer and more mixed with rufous ; the rufous on the abdomen 

 and crissum extends farther' forward on the former, and is much lighter 

 than in the Jamaican bird. Besides, the species under consideration 

 seems to be of smaller size. 



Although only the one specimen has been examined, I have very 

 little doubt that the species will prove to be well founded. The in- 

 dividual variation among these birds seems to be very limited, and 

 the differences, pointed out above, are trenchant enough to make the 

 two forms readily distinguishable. 



G. MYADESTES SOLITARIUS Baird. 



[Plate II, Fig. 2.] 



IB'kl.—PlUogonijs armilattus Gosse, Birds of Jamaica, p. 198, cfr. VIII (hcc Yieill.). — 

 SCLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lontl. 1861 (p. 73).—{Myiade8tes) March, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sc. Phila. 186:^, p. 294. 



1866. — Myiadestes soUtarius Baird, Rev. Amer. Birds, I, p. 421. — (Myiadectes) A. and E. 

 Newtoa, Handb. of Jamaica for 1881, p. 107. 



U. S. Kat. Mus. Kg. 30285 (^ ad., Port Royal MoKntains, Jamaica, 

 March, 18G3. W. T. March). 



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

 and very falcate,* considerably shorter than 7th, sinnated and somewhat 

 attenuated at end; 3d shorter than 6th, conspicuously attenuated 

 toward the tip; 4th, 5th and 6th longest. Tail graduated, and slightly 

 emarginated, middle pair being equal to the 3d i)air from outside ; longest 

 tail-feathers about equal to the wing. 



Upper surftice pure slaty plumbeous, without any olivaceous wash, 

 except on the forehead; lower cheeks and auriculars black, graduating 

 into the plumbeous of the neck on the latter, the auriculars unstreaked; 

 a large patch on lower eyelid, and a smaller one on malar apex, and on 

 the extreme point of the chin-angle, white; chin and throat i)ure chest- 

 nut, exactly as in M. dominicanus ; breast, flanks, and abdomen pure slaty 



* More so than in the other 6 specimens, which I have had opportunity to examine. 



