178 BULLETIN oO, rNITKD STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult mdle.—lyenirth (skins), 101-16G (16.':!); win^r, 85. 5-90 (87.3); 

 tail, 81-84 (82.8); exposed culinen, 11.5; tarsus, 21.5-23.5 (22.8); 

 middle toe, 14.5-16.5 (15.8). « 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 163; wintj;, 87; tail, 81; exposed 

 cidmen, 11; tarsus, 22; middle toe, 15.'^ 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



Myadcslrs montmius ? Cherrie, PuI). 10, Field Culuml). Mus.,Orii. Scr., i, no. 1, 



189(), 9 (hal)its; song; crit.). 

 Myadcslcs genibnrbis chrrrici Ridgway, Sniithsoiiiaii Misc. Coll. ((luarterly issiio), 



xlvii, Aug. (), 1!»04. 112 (("atare, Santo Domingo; foll. Field ( 'olumlnan Mus.) 



MYADESTES ARMILLATUS (Vieillot). 

 YELLOW-THIGHED SOLITAIRE, 



Apparentl}" similar to the several forms of Af. geniharhis, but dif- 

 ferino; in havino; the thiijhs yellow and the upper as well as the lower 

 eyelid white. 



Bill l)lackish; a while spot on ilie sides of the Ihvoal and at its origin (the chin) 

 iniinediately below the lower niandilile (the two continuous); the eye surrount' _'d by 

 the same color. Head, hack, rump, two intermediate tail-feathers, and the lireast of a 

 grayish slate, paler helow. \Mng and tail feathers blackish, bordered externally ]>y 

 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 l)racele1 on tlie feathers of lower 

 part of leg; feet bi'own; length, (5 inches, 3 lines. c 



The l)ird described by Vieillot has not yet l)een identified with any 

 known species, and may very likel}' have been a specimen of one of 

 the forms of M. geniharhis with the legs and feet of some entirely 

 different bird attached to the skin. (See Stejneger, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1882, 25, 26.) 



Habitat unknown. 



Muscimpa annillaia Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., ii, 1807, (il), pi. 42 ("Antilles"); 



Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxi, 1818, 448 ("Martinique"); Fa\c. Meth., ii, 



1823, 824. 

 P[tilogonys] armillatus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1846, 281 (not pi. G9!). 

 [Ptilogonys] armillaUis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 366, no. 5577. 

 Myiadcstcs armillatHS Bairu, R(!view Am. Birds, 1866, 422 ("Martinique''). — 



ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1871, 270. — Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. 



Sci., i, 1878, 149.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 14 (synonymy; crit.); Birds West 



Ind.. 1889, 28; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 122. 

 Myicukctcs armillatus Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881. 370, foot-note. 

 [Myiadestes] armillatus Cory, List Birds W^est Ind., 1885, 5. 

 Myadestes armillatus Stejneger, Proc. IJ. S. Nat. Mus., v. 1882, 25 (crit.). — Cory, 



Cat. Birds West Ind., 1892, 20, 122. 



a Three specimens. 

 6 One specimen. 



cProf. Baird's translation of Vieillot's original description (in Ois. Am. Sept., i, 

 p. 69). 



