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Birds, ]SG(), 420 (Dcita Mis. and Ranclio Redondo, Costa Rica). — Lawrence, 



Aim. Lye. N. Y.. ix. 1868. 97 (La Palma and Navarro, Costa Rica). — Fr.\nt- 



ziis, Journ. fur Urn., 1869, 266 (Costa Rica; habits). — Boucard, Proc Zool. 



Soc. Lontl., 1878, 51 (Navarro, Costa Rica; song). 

 [Mijiadcstcs] iiu'lanops Sclater and Salvin, Num. Av. Ncotr., 1873, 4. 

 Myiadcclcs vwlanops Salvin and Godman, Biol. Ccntr.-Am., Aves, i, 1879, 42 



(Volcande Irazii, etc., Costa Rica). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.. vi, ISSl. 



876 (Calovevora, Veragua; Costa Rica). 

 Mijaxkstes melanops Bangs, Proc. New En;;!. Zool. Clul), iii, 1902, 48 (Boqucte and 



Volcan de Chiriqiii, 4,000-7,500 ft.). 

 [ l///(Vr/r,s/<'.s'] 7»fZfmops Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 190;], ll:L 

 [Ptilo(jonyfi] vulcinops CjRAX, Hand-list, i, 1869, 'M'tt], no. r)r)76. 



MYADESTES ELISABETH (Lembeye). 

 CUBAN SOLITAIRE. 



Adults (sexes aliJce) .— Above plain grayish olive or hair In-own; 

 reniiges (except tertials) and larger wing-coverts dnsky, the greater 

 coverts edged with color of back, the primaries with paler grayish 

 brown, the secondaries broadly edged for terminal half (approxi- 

 mately) -with more bnffy brown (wood brown) and crossed at l)ase by 

 a broad band of the same color, the intervening space dusky, with 

 grayish brown edgings; tail (except fotu- middle rectrices) dnsky, the 

 lateral rectrix witli onter web (exce])t basally) and terminal third 

 (more (w less) of inner web pale brownish gray, broadly margined at 

 tip with white; second rectrix with terminal portion pale brownish 

 gray and white, the third sometimes with a whiti.sh triangular spot 

 at tip; a continuous orbital ring of white; lores dull brownish white; 

 malar region and under parts dull white, shaded with pale brownish 

 gray on chest, sides, and flanksj the last tinged with pale brown; a 

 distinct submalar streak of dusky brownish gray along each side of 

 tin-oat; under wing-coverts pale dull buflf; inner web of remiges 

 crossed by a broad basal band of pale buff or buffy white; bill dusky, 

 the basal half (more or less) of mandible pale-colored; iris brown; 

 legs and feet pale brownish (in dried skins). 



Young. — General color of upper parts as in adults, but broken by 

 subterminal, mostly guttate, small spots of bull' and indistinct dusky 

 terminal margins to the feathers, including lesser and middle wing- 

 coverts; under parts pale grayish buffy (at least on throat, chest, 

 sides, and flanks)," with narrow terminal margins of dusky to feathers 

 of chest, sides, and flanks; larger wing-coverts, remiges, and rec- 

 trices as in adults. 



Adult male.— ^Len^th (skins), 176-17S (177); wing, 85.5-91.5 (89); 

 tail, 83-88 (86); exposed culmen, 12-12.5 (12.3); tarsus, 20.5-23 

 (21.7); middle toe, 15.5.^ 



oThe single specimen examined is full grown and has partially assumed the adult 

 plumage. 



b Three sp(M'imens. 



