536 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female. ^hength (skins), 129-140 (135); wing, 66.5-71 (68.8); 

 tail, 58.5-66.5 (62.9); exposed culmen, 13.5-15 (14.3); tarsus, 13-15 

 (14.5); middle toe, 8-8.5 (8.3).« 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles (Port an Prince, Haiti; Magna, I^a 

 Lagunita, Aguacate, Maiwan, Catare, Samana, La Vega, Honduras, 

 and Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo). 



Tyrannula carriboea (var. hispaniolensis) Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, Dec. 



5, 1866 (pub. 1867), 91 (Santo Domingo; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Contopus caribseus, var. hispaniolensis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 



Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 351, footnote. 

 Contopus hispaniolensis Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 81, pi. (22), fig. 4; 



Auk, iii, 1886, 236; Birds West Ind., 1889, 123. 

 Blacicus hispaniolensis Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 242 (Samana and 



La Vega, Santo Domingo).— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 14, 109, 131 



(Haiti and Santo Domingo). — Cherrie, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 17 



(habits). — Oberholser, Auk, xvi, 1899, 335. 

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

 [Pyrocephalu-s] caribseus (not Muscipeta caribaea D'Orbigny) Gray, Hand-list, i, 



1869, 363, no. 5538, part. 

 Contopus frazari Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, Apr., 1883, 94 (Santo Domingo; 



coll. C. B. Cory). — Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. fiir Orn., 1886, 85 (reprint 



of orig. descr.). 

 Sayornis dominicensis Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, viii, Apr., 1883, 94 (Santo 



Domingo; coll. C. B. Cory). 



BLACICUS PALLIDUS (Gosse). 

 JAMAICAN WOOD PEWEE. 



Similar to B. Jiispaniolensis , but decidedly smaller, bill shorter and 

 relatively broader, and coloration of upper parts lighter. 



Adults {sexes alike) . — Above plain brownish olive, becoming darker 

 or more sooty on pileum, lighter and browner on rump and upper 

 tail-coverts; tail deep grayish brown, the outer webs of rectrices 

 passing into lighter brown (broccoli) on edges; wings dusky, the 

 middle and greater coverts passing terminally into light grayish 

 brown (more cinnamomeous in younger birds) , the secondaries edged 

 (except basally) with pale olive or buffy olive, the edgings broader 

 and paler on inner secondaries ; sides of head and neck similar in color 

 to back, etc., but somewhat lighter, the lores with more or less admix- 

 ture of dull olive-whitish, and indications of a very narrow dull 

 whitish orbital ring (interrupted on upper eyelid) ; chin and throat 

 pale dull olive-buffy or dull olive- whitish tinged with bulT; rest of 

 under parts dull brownish buffy (more or less deep), the chest and 

 sides strongly shaded with buffy olive; axillars and under wing- 

 coverts dull brownish buffy; maxilla dusky brown, mandible pale 

 (yellowish or fleshy in life ?) ; iris brown ; legs and feet dusky brown, 

 the upper portion of tarsus paler or clearer brown. 



« Six specimens. 



