BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



539 



r«,ra<7 -General color of upper parts more sooty browni.h than 

 in ad 2 the feathers of pileum very narrowly margined termmal > 



ith ffv those of rump and upper tail-coyerts more broadlj but 

 Mtttht ,:;:<, with pale buffy brownish; middle and greater 



■ ^^::^rts al'ruptly tipped with cinnamon or -nnamon-U^ form- 

 in. two distinct narrow bands), the secondaries edged with the same 

 W„?« »aJ..-Length (skins), 130-143 (135) ; wing, 64.5-69 5 (6.5) 

 J,^^L (62); exposed culmen, 13-14.5 (13.8); tarsus, 15.5-16.5 

 Clf^QV middle toe, 8.5-9 (8.7).'* , ^_^ _^ _ /^r 4\. 



^^^,;^^,,,.__i:ength (skins), ^f-^^^^f^^-^''^:J'lt^. 

 tail, 59.5-63.5 (61.2); exposed culmen, 13.5-14 (13./), tarsus, lo.5, 



"ti^I^/^minica, Guadeloupe, and Martim,ue, Lesser Antilles. 



1878) 161 (Dominica, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Isat. Mus.), y^^", 

 .. 187R ^q 487- viii 1885 622 (Dominica; Guadeloupe).— Cory, Auk, 



Tlkse 42- '^{^^^i^^n.^^ou,^^ Birds West Ind., 1889, 129; Cat. 

 W;stTnd Birl;i892 14, 109 (Dommica; Guadeloupe)^-Sc..TKK, Ca . 

 Birds Brit Mus. xiv, 1888, 243 (Dominica); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond 1889 

 ?. 327 (^ominica).-VKK^^^^ Trans. Conn. Ac Arts and Sc. ^.u 89 

 336 (Donkica; habits; descr. nest and eggs).-OBKKHO.sEK, Auk, xm, 1899, 



^l^^Leica,m. COKY, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 15.-Sh.kpk, Hantl- 



coll. C. B. Cory); v, 1888, 158; Birds West Ind 1889, 294^ Cat. 

 Birds 1892, 14, 109, 133, 145.-Oberholsek, Auk xvi, 1899, 334. 

 [Blacims] mariimccmis Sharpe, Hand-list, lu, 1901, 143. 



BLACICUS LATIROSTRIS (Verreaux). 

 SANTA LUCIA WOOD PEWEE. 



AduJts (sexfs «Eit«).-Pileum dark sooty brown; rest of upper parts 

 plalnluve brown, the rump and upperJaibcovert^(espec^ 



Five adult males from Domiiiica 

 Three adult males from Guadeloupe 

 Two adult males from Martinique 



FEMALKS 



Four adult females from Dominica 

 One adult female from Guadeloupe 

 One adult female from Martinique. 



1 am not able to verify, from the series e 



examined, the alleged differences between 



Martinique specimens 



and those from Dominica and Guadeloupe. 



