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known forms, and in view of the peculiarity in their geographical dis- 

 tribution, that each of the mountainous islands has its own distinct 

 species, it seems very improbable that another form is still to be found 

 in St. Domingo. The most perplexing features of Vieillot's bird are 

 the brown feet and the beautiful yellow bracelet on the lower part of 

 the tibia, and I am inclined to indorse the view of Mr. Robert Eidg- 

 WAY, that it is one of the known species,* poorly described, from a 

 specimen supplied with legs and feet belonging to a quite different bird. 

 The strong scutellation of the tarsus, as shown in the plate, seems to 

 indicate that this suspicion is well founded. On the other hand, it 

 should not be overlooked that M. sibilans has the tibiiP colored some- 

 what like the bird in question, and that the West-Indian islands are not 

 yet so satisfactorily explored that anything can be said with certainty. 



I therefore here reprint Professor Baird's translation (1. c.) of Vieil- 

 lot's description of the adult : 



" Bill blackish ; a white spot on the sides of the throat, and at its 

 origin (the chin) immediately below the lower mandible (the two con- 

 tinuous) ; the eye surrounded by the same color. Head, back, rump, 

 two intermediate tail-feathers, and the breast of a grayish-slate, paler 

 below. Wing and tail feathers blackish, bordered externally by gray, 

 the three lateral on each side of the tail more or less white. Belly and 

 hinder parts brownish rufous ; a beautiful yellow in form of a bracelet 

 on the feathers of lower part of leg ; feet brown ; length, G inches, 3 

 lines." ViEiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 69. 



8. MYADESTES ELISABETH (Lemb.). 



ISDO.—Mnscicapa elisabeth Lembeye, Aves de Cuba, p. 39, tab. 5, fig. 3. 

 18oG.—Mytadestefi elisabeth Cabanis, Jour. f. Ornith. 1856, p. 2.— Gundlach, ibid. 



1861, p. 328; 1872, p. 428.— Id. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 1858 (p. 271). Extr. p. 5.— 



Id. Repert. Fis.-Nat. de Cuba, I, 1865-66, p. 240.— Id. Ornith. Cuban. 



Auales 1873, p. 79.— Baird, Rev. Amer. Birds, I (1866), p. 425, 

 l8:J9.—Miii(Hlesfcs elisahethtc Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 110.— Albrecht, Journ. f. Ornith. 



1861, p. 209.— ScL. and Salv. Exot. Ornith. (1867) p. 55, pi. xxviii. 

 1873.— iTyJflfZcsfes elisabethcc SCL. and Salv. Nomencl. Neotr. p. 4. 



The adult bird has so often been described (see the above refer- 

 ences), that I shall give here only a short description of the young. 



Coll. Lawrence. {$ juv., Cuba. Gundlach.) 



General color that of the adult. Upper parts more rusty, with a 

 subterminal yellowish spot and terminal blackish edge on each feather, 

 except on the rump, which is uniform ; spots very obsolete on the up- 

 per tail-coverts, where the darker edges are scarcely perceptible; the 

 upper wing-coverts, except the primary coverts, marked like the back. 

 Underparts whitish, with a. faint ochraceous tinge and very obsolete 

 dark edgings ; mustachial stripe hardly recognizable. 



* Perhaps M. dotninicanus. 



