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plumbeous on tlie upper breast, almost of the same shade as the baclv, 

 but beeomiug much lighter ou the lower parts towards the belly ; anal 

 region, crissum and under tail-coverts rufous-chestnut; tibiie like the 

 back. Wings and tail as in the foregoing species, the edge of the wing 

 being purer white.t Bill black, legs yellow, claws blackish brown. 

 The females seem not to differ materially from the males. 



Mr. GossE states that the irides are hazel, or dull orange. 



• TaMe of dimensions. 



Hae. — Jamaica. "It is entirely restricted to the dense highland 

 woods ; it is at times very common about the woods, above New Castle, 

 in Port Eoyal Mountains, and along the ridges between that parish and 

 Saint George's, as well as about Abbey Green, one of the approaches to 

 the Blue Mountains." (March, I. c.) 



? 7. MYADESTES ARMILLATUS (Vieill.). 



1807. — Muscicapa armiUata Vieill. Ois. Amer. Sept. I, p. 69, pi. 42. 

 1866.< — Mifiadestcs armillatus Baird, Eev. Amer. Birds, I, p. 422. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Loud., 1871, p. 270.— Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. 1878, p. 149. 



The description of Yieillot (1. c.*) does not agree with any of the 

 West-Indian Myadestes yet known. That it is not the genibarhis from 

 Martinique is evident from the description, although Vieillot in 1818 

 gives that island as the especial habitat of his bird. It may, however, 

 be, that the description of the young bird, which he gives for the first 

 time in E". Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi, p. 418 (1818), belongs to the Marti- 

 nique species, and hence the statement of the habitat. Mr. Sclater 

 (1. c.) thinks "It is possible that M. armillatus verus may be the spe- 

 cies from St. Domingo," but the bird detected in that island by Mr. 

 Cory agrees less with Yieillot's description than any of the other 



tin tliis si)ecimen, Prof. Baird's type, two or three feathers on each edge are tipped 

 with rufous, which is not to be seen in the other specimens. 



* And N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi, p. 448 (1818), where a few phrases are changed, and 

 the breast given as "more blackish " (2^?»s noir) than the back, instead of "paler" 

 (jjIus clair) of the original descrix^tion. 



