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Young. — General color of upper parts browner or more sooty olive, 

 the posterior scapulars and feathers of lower back very narrowly, and 

 indistinctly margined with paler, those of the rump and upper tail- 

 coverts rather broadly tipped with dull buffy brownish; middle and 

 greater wing-coverts sharply tipped with buffy cinnamon, forming 

 two distinct bands; under parts more brownish buffy than in adults. 



^(^w?^maZp.— Length (skins), 130-141 (134); wing, 65.5-72.5 (69.4); 

 tail, 60.5-67 (64.3); exposed culmen, 12.5-14(13.3); tarsus, 14-14.5 

 (14.3); middle toe, 8-8.5 (8.3).« 



Adult female.— hength (skins), 124-137 (131) ; wing, 65.5-69.5 (67.3) ; 

 tail, 57-65.5 (64.1); exposed culmen, 12-13 (12.4); tarsus, 14-14.5 

 (14.3); middle toe, 7.5-8.5 (8).« 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles (Spanish Town; Cuna Cuna 

 Pass; Priestmans River; Kingston; Moneague; St. Georges, Portland; 

 Troy). 



Myiobius pallidus GossK, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 106 (Jamaica); Illustr. Birds Jam., 



1849, pi. 40. 

 [Tyrannula] pallida Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 191. 

 Blacicus 'pallidas Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 77; Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., 



xiv, 1888, 243 (Moneague and near Spanish Town, Jamaica). — Albrecht, 



Journ. fur Orn., 1862, 199.— Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 14, 109, 130.— 



Oberholser, Auk, xvi, 1899, 335. 

 [Blacicus] pallidus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 142. 

 Contop^is pallidus Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 231. — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. 



Sci. Philad., 1863, 290.— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 315.— Cory, 



Auk, iii, 1886, 234; Birds West Ind., 1889, 121.— Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 178. 

 [Contopus] pallidus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 52. — Cory, List 



BirdsWest Ind., 1885, 15. 

 C[ontopu.s] pallidus Newton (A. and E.), Handb. .Jamaica, 1881, 107. 

 Contopus caribseus, var. pallidus B.\ird, Brewer, and Ridoeway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 351, footnote. 

 [Pyrocephalus] pallidus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 303, no. 5537. 

 Rhyncoeyclus cervineiventris Salvadori, Atti. Soc. Ital. Milan, vii, 1864, 153 



("Brazil;" see Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1808, 175). 



BLACICUS BLANCOI Cabanis. 

 PORTO RICO WOOD PEWEE. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum varying from dark sooty olive to 

 sooty blackish ; rest of upper parts plain deep olive ; tail dusky gray- 

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

 wings dusky, the middle and greater coverts narrowly margined ter- 

 minally with paler, the secondaries edged with pale fulvous or brown- 

 ish buffy; sides of head and neck similar in color to back, etc., fading 

 gradually into pale dull grayish or buft'y grayish on chin and throat, 

 the lower portion of the latter more strongl}^ huffy; rest of under 

 ])arts deep brownish buff or clay color, paler (more purely buff) on 



o Six specimens. 



