BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERIC-A. 175 



Minaaestes nioiitann.^ ('(ii;v, I'lill. Null. Oni. Club, vi, July, 1881, 130 (Fort 

 Jacques, o Haiti; cdll. ('. l'>. Cory), J51 (Fort Jacques); Auk, iii, 1886, 12 (syn- 

 onymy, description, etc.); lUrds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 52; Birds West 

 Ind., 1889, 2(5; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1893, 122, 131. 



I Mjjiadesles] viontanus Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 5. 



Myiadectes montanus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 370. 



Myadestes montanus Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 23, pi. 2, lig. 1. — 

 Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1893, 20. 



[Myiedestes] vionlunus Sharps, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 112. 



MYADESTES GENIBARBIS GENIBARBIS Swainson. 

 MARTINIQUE SOLITAIRE. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above, including tertials and middle rec- 

 trices, plain slate color, the latter with black shafts; middle wing- 

 coverts black centrally; greater coverts, primary coverts, alula, and 

 remiges (except secondaries) black with slate-colored edgings (these 

 obsolete on primary coverts) ; rectrices (except middle pair) black, 

 indistinctly edged with slate color, the three outermost with terminal 

 portion of inner web white, the outer web first gray, then white, ter- 

 minally;'' lores and suborbital region black; a white crescentic 

 mark on lower eyelid; auricular region slate color narrowly streaked 

 with white; malar region white anteriorly passing posteriorly into 

 cinnamon-rufous, some of the feathers with narrow tips of blackish; 

 a black submalar streak along each side of upper throat; chin wliite, 

 more or less tinged or broken by cinnamon-rufous; throat and upper 

 chest deep cinnainon-rufous or chestnut-rufous, forming a large 

 |)atch with convex posterior outline; lower chest, breast, aiid ante- 

 rior ])ortion of sides plain slate-gray, paler posteriorly, where tinged 

 laterally, on Hanks, with tawny-ochraceous; abdomen, anal region, 

 and under tail-coverts ta\\*ny-ochraceous; thighs slate color or slate- 

 gray ; inner webs of remiges (except outermost j^rimaries) crossed by 

 a broad subbasal band of white; bill black; iris brown; legs and 

 feet yellowish (in dried skins). 



Young. — Above, including smaller wing-coverts, soot}^ blackish, 

 the feathers with a sub terminal guttate spot or streak of tawn}^- 

 ochraccous; greater wing-coverts slate color, with a small terminal 

 spot of ochraceous or bufly; remiges and rectrices as in adults; under 

 parts pale cinnamon-rufous, the chin, throat, and under tail-coverts 

 innnaculate, the other portions with feathers margined with sooty 

 blackish, producing a squamate appearance, most conspicuous on 

 chest. 



a The type-locality not mentioned in the original description. 



b On the outermost rectrix the white occupies, as a wedge-shaped area, between one- 

 third and one-half the length of the inner wel), while the outer web is gray for most of 

 the exposed portion. 



