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MYADESTES SIBILANS Lawrence. 

 SAINT VIi\CENT SOLITAIRE. 



Similar in ^^cncral appearance to M. genibarbis and M. solitariuN, 

 but upper parts sooty black (more olivaceous ou rump), and (olor of 

 throat much paler ttawny-ochraceous or li<^ht ochraceous-rufous). 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above dull black or sooty black, passing into 

 dusky olive on rump, upper tail-coverts, and middle rectrices; two 

 exterior rectrices extensively white t(U-minally, the wliite in form of a 

 large wedge-shaped area, mostly confined to inner wel), the third rec- 

 trix sometimes tipped with white; a white mark on lower eyelid; 

 auricular region with minute whitish shaft-streaks (sometimes obso- 

 lete) ; anterior ])ortion of malar region wliite, the remainder ochra- 

 ceous-rufous ; chin white; whole throat and upper median portion of 

 chest uniform tawny-ochraceous or light ochraceous-rufous, forming 

 a large patch with rounded posterior outline; rest of chest, breast, 

 and anterior portion of sides ash gray (gray no. G or no. 7)," becoming 

 paler ])osteriorly, usiuilly more or less strongly tinged along the 

 median line with tawny-ochraceous; sides and flanks paler gray, 

 tinged with tawny-ochraceous; abdomen, anal region, and under 

 tail-coverts imiform tawny-ochraceous; thighs slate-gray; inner 

 webs of remiges (exce])t outermost primaries) crossed by a band of 

 white; ])ill black; iris brown; legs and feet yellowish (in dried skins). 



Adult ma/e.— Length (skins), 1G5-183 (170); wing, 84-89.5 ,(SS); 

 tail, 73-79 (75.7); exposed culmen, 11.5-12.5 (12.1); tarsus, 23-25.5 

 (24.6); middle toe, 14.5-16.5 (15.6).'^ 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 175-185 (180); wing, 87.5-88 (S7.7); 

 tail, 70-78 (74); exposed culmen, 12.5; tarsus, 25; middle toe, 

 15.5-16.5 (16).'^ 



Island of St. Vincent, Lesser Antilles. 



Miisciciipa annUlala (not of Vieillot) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847. 19S. part (Iho 

 St. Vincent bird referred to on pp. 201, 202). 



Myiadestes sibilans Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., i, June, 1878, 148 (St. Vin- 

 cent, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 

 188 (habits); i, 1879, 486.— Ober, Camps in the Cariljbees. 1880, 19!) (habits; 

 song).— Lister, Ibis, 1880, 39.— Cory, Auk, iii, 188G, 9; Ibis, 188(i, 472; Birds 

 West Ind., 1889, 23; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 122, 134. 



Myiadecles sibilans Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., vi, 1881, 371. 



Myadestes sibilans Stejneger, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 17, pi. 2, lig. (i. — 

 Cory, Cat. Birds West Ind., 1892, 19. 



[Mjliedestes] sibilans Sharpe, HAud-Yisi. iv, 1993. 112. 



M Ridgway 's Nomenclature of Colors. 

 b Five specimens. 

 c Two specimens. 



