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latter) tinged with cinnamon; tail dark grayish brown (nearly sepia), 

 the rectrices more or less distinctly tipped with pale grayish brown or 

 buffy, their outer webs passing into lighter grayish brown on edges 

 (very indistinctly); wings dusky, the secondaries edged (except 

 l)asally ) with pale cinnamon-buff or pale grayish buff ; sides of head and 

 neck similar in color to back, etc., but tinged with fulvous, especially 

 below ; under parts plain cinnamon-tawny or dull tawny-ochraceous, 

 including axillars and under wing-coverts; inaxilla horn brown, 

 mandible wholly whitish (yellowish in life?); iris brown; legs and feet 

 dusky brown, paler brown on upper portion of tarsus. 



Adult male.— hength (skins), 128-136 (131); wing, 68-71.5 (69.2); 

 tail, 62-67.5 (65) ; exposed culmen, 14-15 (14.5); tarsus, 15-16 (15.3); 

 middle toe, 7.5-8 (7.8). « 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 129-134 (131); wing, 66-71 (68.5); 

 tail, 63-66.5 (64.8); exposed culmen, 14-14.5 (14.3); tarsus, 15-16 

 (15.5); middle toe, 8.^ 



Island of Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. 



Myiobius latirostris Verreaux, Bull. Nouv. Arcliiv. Mus. Paris, ii, 1866, 22, pi. 3, 



fig. 2 (Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles); Ibis, 1868, 102. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond,, 1871, 271 (crit.). 

 Myiarclms latirostris Semper, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1872, 650 (habits). 

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



List Birds West Ind., 1885, 15. 

 Contopus latirostris Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 166. — Cory, Auk, iii, 



1886, 235; Ibis, 1886, 475; Birds West Ind., 1889, 122.— Sclater, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. Lend., 1889, 395. 

 Bladcus latirostris Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 244. — Cory, Cat. 



West Ind. Birds, 1892, 14, 109, 133.— Oberholser, Auk, xvi, 1899, 334 (crit.). 

 [Bladcus] latirostris Sharpe, Handdist, iii, 1901, 143. 



BLACICUS FLAVIVENTRIS Lawrence. 

 GRENADA WOOD PEWEE. 



Young. '^ — Pileum dark sooty olive; rest of upper parts plain dark 

 olive; wings and tail dusky, the middle and greater wing-coverts 

 abruptly tipped \\ath cinnamon, forming two distinct bands, of which 

 the posterior is much the wider; secondaries edged (except basally) 

 with pale cinnamon; sides of head and neck similar in color to back, 

 etc., fading gradually below into pale olive on chin, throat, chest, and 

 sides, the rest of under parts pale buffy yellow (nearly primrose); 

 under wing-coverts mixed grayish brown and buffy cinnainon; max- 

 illa dusky brown, mandible wholly brownish white (yellowish in 



« Three specimens. 



b Two specimens. 



c The adult of this very rare species is unknown. 



