r>84 bullp::ttn 50, united states national museum, 



the posterior lesser coverts and middle coverts margined with cinna- 

 mon or rusty, the greater coverts and remiges broadly edged with the 

 same, the inner secondaries edged with dull yellowish white ; loral and 

 suborbital regions dusky grayish; auricular region very dark sootj' 

 brown or brownish black, like pileum; malar region grayish white, 

 flecked \\ath dusky; under parts white, the chin and throat less 

 purely white, the chest and sides strongly tinged with pale bufl^y 

 grajash; axillars and under wing-coverts pale (primrose) yellow, 

 faintly tinged with gray, especially toward base; inner webs of 

 remiges broadly edged with pale cinnamon or cinnamon-bufi', becom- 

 ing more yellowish on primaries; bill black, the mandible more 

 brownish basally; legs and feet brownish black; length (skins), 

 191-206 (196); wing, 101-105.5 (103.8); tail, 80-85 (81.3); exposed 

 culmen, 22-25 (24); tarsus, 19-21 (20.3); middle toe, 14.5-15.5 

 (15.1).« 



Island of Haiti (Port au Prince and Le Coup, Haiti; Hato Viejo, 

 Magna, and Honduras, Santo Domingo). 



Pitangus gabbii Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., xi, Dec, 187G, 288 (Viejo, 

 Province Santiago, Santo Domingo; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Cory, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 153 (int. Haiti); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 

 76, pi. (22), fig. 2; Auk, iii, 1886, 233; xii, 1895, 279 (Santo Domingo); Birds 

 West Ind., 1889, 120; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 108, 131.— Cherrie, 

 Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 17 (Honduras, Santo Domingo). 



[Pitangus] gabhii Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 15. — Sh.\rpe, Hand-list, iii, 

 1901, 128. 



Pitangus gabbi Scl.\ter, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 180. 



Tolmarchus gabbi Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xviii, Sept. 2, 1905, 209. 



TOLMARCHUS TAYLOR! (Sclater). 

 PORTO RICAN PETCHARY. 



Adult male. — Pileum very dark sooty brown or brownish black, 

 the crown with a large concealed patch of bright yellow (varying 

 from lemon to cadmium orange, sometimes tinged with tawny) 

 imderlaid laterally and posteriorly by white; hindneck similar in 

 color to pileum, but more brown; back, scapulars, rump, and lesser 

 wing-coverts plain grayish brown (varying from deep hair brown to 

 warm sepia), paler on rump, darker on upper back; upper tail-coverts 

 darker, margined with rusty brown or chestnut; tail dark grayish 

 l)rown, paler terminally and on exterior rectrices (especially, the 

 lateral pair), the outer webs of rectrices edged with pale cinnamomeous 

 or pale grayish brown, the inner webs becoming dull yellowish white 

 l)asally; wings dark grayish brown or dusky, the middle coverts 

 margined terminally with pale buffy grayish (sometimes whitish at 

 tip), the greater coverts edged with pale cinnamon-gray or cinna- 



« Six specimens. (No females of this species seen by me.) 



