538 r^.ULLETTN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



under tail-coverts, the chest and sides strongly shaded with olive; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts cinnamon-buff; maxilla brownish 

 black or blackish brown, mandible pale with tip usually dusky; iris 

 brown; legs and feet tlusky brow^n or blackish. 



Young. — Above duller olive than in adults, the feathers tipped or 

 terminally margined with pale dull buffy; middle and greater wing- 

 coverts abruptly tipped with cinnamon-buff, forming two distinct 

 narrow bands; under parts paler than in adults, the chest and sides 

 more or less clouded or mottled with pale grayish olive. 



Adult male.— Ijength (skins), 126-143 (131); wing, 65-70.5 (68.2); 

 tail, 59-63.5 (61.2); exposed culmen, 13.5-14.5 (13.8); tarsus, 15.5-16 

 (15.7); middle toe, 8.5-9 (8.5).« 



Adult female.— I jength (skins), 123-132 (129); wing, 63.5-66 (64.7); 

 tail, 58.5-63 (60.5); exposed culmen, 12.5-14 (13.4); tarsus, 14.5-15.5 

 (15.1); middle toe, 7.5-8.5 (8.1).^ 



Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles. (Arecibo; Mayaguez; 

 Utuado.) 



Bladeus blancoi Gundlach, Journ. ftir Orn., 1874, 311 (Porto Rico; nomen nudum; 

 1878, 159, 171 (crit.); Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, ]95.— Cabanis, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1875, 224 (first described!).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 242; Birds 

 West Ind., 1889, 129; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 14, 109, 132.— ScLATER.Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 243.— Oberholser, Auk, xvi, 1899, 335 (crit.).— 

 BowDisH, Auk, XX, 1903, 11 (habits; descr. nest and eggs), 195 (food). 



[Bladeus] blancoi Cory, list Birds West Ind., 1885, 15. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 

 1901, 142. 



BLACICUS BRUNNEICAPILLUS Lawrence. 

 DOMINICAN WOOD PEWEE. 



Very similar to B. Mancoi, but general color of upper parts slightly 

 browner (less olivaceous) and under parts paler. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum varying fTom dark sooty brown to 

 dark sooty slate or nearly sooty black; rest of upper parts dark 

 browaiish olive to olive-brown, becoming paler and browner on rump 

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

 rectrices passing into lighter grayish brown or olive on edges; wings 

 dusky, the tips (broadly) of middle and greater coverts grayish brown 

 or olive, the secondaries edged with pale brownish buffy; sides of 

 head and neck similar in color to back, gradually fading below into 

 dull buffy white or buffy grayish white on chin and throat; rest of 

 under parts brownish buffy, the chest and sides strongly tinged 

 with pale grayish olive ; axillars and under wing-coverts buffy ; max- 

 illa dusky brow^n, mandible pale, usually wdth tip dusky; iris brown; 

 legs and feet dusky brown or brownish black. 



o Ten specimens. b Six specimens. 



