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and margins of under tail-coverts, the latter light grayish brown or 

 olive centrally; axillars and under wing-coverts dull light buff or 

 cream-buff; maxilla dusky brown or brownish black, mandible pale 

 brownish (in dried skins), sometimes darker terminally or laterally; 

 iris brown; legs and feet black or brownish black. 



Young. — Similar to adults, but general color of upper parts more 

 sooty, the feathers narrowly margined terminally wdth dull whitish 

 or pale dull huffy, these terminal margins broader and more brown- 

 ish or huffy on rump and upper tail-coverts ; middle and greater wing- 

 coverts abruptly tipped with pale buff", forming two distinct narrow 

 bands; chin, throat, abdomen, etc., dull white, the chest and sides 

 more gra^dsh than in adults. 



Adult male. '-'Length (skins), 134-153 (144); wing, 69.5-77 (74.1); 

 tail, 63.5-70.5 (67.3); exposed culmen, 15-17 (15.9); tarsus, 15-16 

 (15.4); middle toe, 8.5-9.5 (8.8).« 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 134-146 (141); wing, 67.5-72 (69.6); 

 tail, 61-68.5 (65.3); exposed culmen, 14.5-16 (15.6); tarsus, 14.5-16 

 (15.2); middle toe, 8-9.5 (8.7).^ 



Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles, including Isle of Pines. (El 

 Guama, San Diego de los Baiios, Trinidad, Pinar del Rio, and Caba- 

 nas, western Cuba; Santiago de Cuba, Guama, El Cobre, and Reme- 

 dios, eastern Cuba; San Juan and Santa Fe, Isle of Pines.) 



Musdpeta carihaea D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1839, 77 

 (Cuba). — Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 129. 



Muscicapa carihaea Gundlach, Journ. Bost. Soc. N. H., vi, 1852, 316 (descr. eggs). 



Blacicus caribaeus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 480. — Brewer, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 307.— Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1861, 328; 1872, 426 

 (habits); Report. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 1865, 240.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 241; 

 Birds West Ind., 1889, 128; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 14, 109, 128 (Cuba; Isle of 

 Pines). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 242 (San Cristobal and 

 Remedies, Cuba). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 303 (near 

 Trinidad, s. Cuba; descr. nest). — Oberholser, Auk, xvi, 1899, 334 (crit.). — 

 Bangs and Zappey, Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 207 (Isle of Pines). 



"Fifteen specimens from Cuba. 

 b Eleven specimens from Cuba. 



I am unable to detect any difference in coloration between Isle of Pines specimens 

 and those from Cuba proper. 



