174 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



MYADESTES SOLITARIUS Baird. 

 JAMAICAN SOLITAIEE. 



Similar to M. genibarhis (and subsijocios), l)iit decidedly larger 

 (except feet) with tail relatively longer (usually longer than wing, 

 instead of shorter) ; chin chestnut-rufous, like throat, or very slightly 

 intermixed with white (mostly beneath surface) ; nuilar region black 

 in middle portion (this confluent with Idack of suborbital and loral 

 regions), usually with a little white or chestnut-rufous at its anterior 

 extremity (malar apex);« abdomen pale gray, this sometimes tinged 

 or slightly intermixed with cinnamon-rufous or ochraceous-rufous; 

 no white streaks on auricular region. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 170-203 (191); wing, ',)1.5-1)6.5 

 (94.1); tad, 92-99 (95.5); exposed culmen, 11-12.5 (11.6); tarsus, 

 22-23.5 (22.7); middle toe, 14.5-15.5 (15).^ 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 174-194 (1S6); wing, S8.5-95.5 

 (92.2); tail, 86.5-95 (91.7); exposed culmen, 10-12 (11.2); tarsus, 

 22-23 (22.8); middle toe, 15-16 (15.5).'^ 



Island of Jamaica and western portion of island of Haiti (Fort 

 Jacques), Greater Antilles. 



Ptiliogomjs annlUalas (iidt Muscicapa aniiUlula Vicillot) Gray and MrrcHELL, 



Gen. Uirds, i, 184G, pi. 69. 

 Ptiloqoiujs armillala Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond,, 1861, 73 (Jamaica). — 



Albrecht, Journ. fiir. Orn., 1862, 196 (Jamaica). 

 [Muscicapa anniUala] Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 198. d 

 [Mijiadestes] annillatus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 335. 

 Myiadestes armillains Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 6; Cat. Am. Birds, 



1862, 47, excl. syn. i)art (Jamaica). — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 



294. 

 Myiadestes solUaruis Baird, Review Am. Birds, June 28, 1866, 421 (Port Royal 



Mts., Jamaica; coll U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Salvin, Oat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 



61._CoRY, Auk, iii, 1886, 13 (synonymy); Birds W<"st Ind., 1889, 27: Cat. 



West Ind. Birds, 1892, 122, 131. 

 [Myiadestes] solitarius Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 4. — Coky, 



List Birds West Ind., 1885, 5. 

 Myiadectes solitarius Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 369. 

 M[yiadectes] solilanus Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 107. 

 Myadestes solitarius Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 24, pi. 2, fi.t>;. 2 



(monogr.).— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 20 —Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 341 



(Jamaica, above 5,000 ft.). 

 [Myicdcstcs] solitarius Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 1J2. 

 [Ptilogonys] solitarius Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 366, no. 5571. 



a Sometimes tlie malar region is entirely black, except the extreme posterior por- 

 _tion. 



b Six specimens. 

 c Seven specimens. 



dGosse in reality cites three names for this species: Muscicapa armillata YieiWot, 

 Myiadestes genibarhis Swainson, and Ptilogonys armillatus G. R. Gray, in the order 

 given. 



