(WU BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



A(Mt female.— 'Length (skins), 174-181 (177); wing, 80-87.5 (83.7); 

 tail, 76.5-82 (78.8); exposed culmen, 18-18.5 (18.3); tarsus, 20.5- 

 21.5 (21); middle toe, 11.5-12 (11.8).« 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Myiobius stolidus Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 168 (Jamaica); Illustr. Birds Jamaica, 

 1849, pi. 42. 



Tyr[annuld\ stolida Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1851, 51 (Jamaica; crit.). 



Myiarrhiis stolidus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 479. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1861, 77; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 234; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 

 260 (Metcalfe Parish, Jamaica). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 199. — 

 March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliilad., 1863, 288.— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Philad., 1872, 77 (crit.).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 316 (crit.).— 

 Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 237; Birds West Ind., 1889, 124; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 

 1892, 13, 108, 130.— Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 177.— Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 577. 



[Myiarchiis] stolidus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 52. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885, 15.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 147. 



M[yiarchus] stolidus Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 107. 



[Pitangus] stolidus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 358, no. 5438, part. 



Myiarchus stolidus, a. var. stolidus Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1872, 77, part 

 (Jamaica) . 



[Myiarchus stolidus] var. stolidus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 332, part (Jamaica). 



MYIARCHUS DOMINICENSIS (Bryant). 

 SANTO DOMINGO FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to M. stolidus, but slightly larger; cinnamon-rufous on inner 

 webs of rectrices broader (occupying more than half the w^idth of the 

 web), even the lateral rectrix very broadly edged with the same; 

 cinnamon-rufous edgings to primaries broader, and deeper in color; 

 chin, throat, and chest pale gray instead of grayish white, and yellow 

 of posterior under parts averaging paler. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum deep sooty brown (sepia to nearly 

 clove brown) ; rest of upper parts lighter, more olive-brown; tail dark 

 grayish brown, the rectrices edged with light grayish l)rown, their 

 inner webs (except of middle pair) with inner half or more cinnamon- 

 rufous; wings dark grayish brown, the middle and greater coverts 

 ])roadly tipped or margined terminally with pale grayish brown (ter- 

 minal margins sometimes whitish), secondaries edged (broadly on 

 innermost) with whitish, and primaries (except two outermost) edged 

 with cinnamon-rufous; sides of head and neck sooty brown, the lores 

 pale grayish, intermixed with dusky; chin, throat, and chest pale gray 

 (about no. 10) ; rest of under parts pale primrose yellow; axillars and 

 under wing-coverts primrose j^ellow; inner webs of remiges edged with 

 light cinnamon-rufous or buff y cinnamon ; bill blackish brown, darker 

 terminally; iris brown; legs and feet blackish brown. 



a Three specimens. 



