BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 583 



Adult female. —Length (skins), 136-139 (137) ; wing, 68-68.5 (68.3); 

 tail, 59-61.5 (60.5); exposed ciilmen, 14.5-16 (15.2); tarsus, 15-16 

 (15.5); middle toe, 8-9 (8.5).« 



Bahama Islands (New Providence, Andros, Abaco, Little AV)aco, 

 Eleuthera, and Great Bahama islands). 



Empidonax bahamensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1859, 109 (Bahamas; 

 coll. H. Bryant). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 52. 



Contopus (caribseus var.?) bahamensis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 352, foot-note. 



Contopus bahamensis Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 101, Auk, iii, 1886, 235 

 (descr.; synonymy); viii, 1891, 294 (New Providence I.), 350 (Great Bahama 

 I.; Abaco I.), 351 (Eleuthera I.); Birds West Ind., 1889, 122.— Ridgway, 

 Auk, viii, 1891, 334 (Abaco), 335 (New Providence), 336 (Eleuthera). 



C[ontopus] bahamensis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 339. 



[Contopus] bahamensis Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 15. 



Bladcus bahamensis Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 242 (Nassau, 

 New Providence, Bahamas). — Northrup, Auk, viii, 1891, 72 (Andros I.; 

 habits).— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 14, 109, 127 (Great Bahama; 

 Abaco, Eleuthera, New Providence, and Andros islands). — Oberholser, 

 Auk, xvi, 1899, 335 (crit.).— Bonhote, Ibis, 1899, 513 (New Providence I., 

 habits); 1903, 292 (Little Abaco I.; habits).— BaxNGs, Auk, xvii, 1900, 288 

 (New Providence I.). — Allen (G. M.), Auk, xxii, 1905, 127 (New Providence 

 I.; habits). — Riley, Auk, xxii, 1905, 356 (New Providence and Abaco 

 islands). 



[Bladcus'] bahamensis Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 142. 



[Pyrocephalus] bahamensis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 361, no. 5502. 



BLACICUS CARIB/EUS (D'Orbigny). 

 CUBAN WOOD PEWEE. 



Similar in coloration to B. bahamensis, but under parts darker, 

 upper parts slightly more olivaceous, and size much greater. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain deep grayish olive, the pileum 

 darker with still darker but indistinct wedge-shaped mesial streaks, 

 the rump and upper tail-coverts slightly paler; tail deep grayish 

 brown, the outer webs of rectrices passing into grayish olive on edges; 

 wings dusky, the middle and greater coverts tipped or terminally 

 margined (broadly) with dull brownish gray or light grayish olive, the 

 secondaries edged (except basally) with the same, approaching dull 

 white on inner secondaries; a conspicuous orbital ring (interrupted 

 on upper eyelid) and lores white, the latter more or less intermixed 

 with dusk^^ ; rest of sides of head and sides of neck similar in color to 

 back, etc., but the latter slightly paler, the auricular region some- 

 what darker; chin and throat dull pale yellowish, tinged with 

 grayish olive; chest and sides of breast pale buffy olive (the former 

 paler and more buffy or yellowish medially) , passing into light yel- 

 lowish buff, or between maize yellow and naples yellow, on abdomen 



o Three specimens. 



