BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 653 



Adult male.— Length (skin), 144-156 (149); wing, 69-75.5 (73.3); 

 tail, 65-71 (68.2); exposed culmen, 15-16.5 (16); tarsus, 18-20 (18.7); 

 middle toe, 9.5-11 (10.2).« 



Adult female.— hengthiskms), 133-150(143) ; wing, 66.5-75.5(70.8) ; 

 tail, 62-70 (66.6); exposed culmen, 15-16 (15.8); tarsus, 18-18.5 

 (18.4); middle toe, 10-10.5 (10.1).^ 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Tynmnida barbirostris Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., i, 1827, 3()7 ("Mexico": sec 



Sdater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 85). 

 Blackvs barbirostris Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 85; Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xiv, 1888, 244 (Moneague, Jamaica). — Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 



1882, 316 (crit.).— Cory, Auk, iii, 188(5, 241; Birds West Ind., 1889, 128.— 



Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 177. 

 [Bladcus] barbirostris Sclater and Salvix, Noui. Av. Neotr., 1873, 53. — Cory, 



List Birds West Ind., 1885, 15. 

 B[lacicus] barbirostris Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 108. 

 Myiarchus barbirostris Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 14, 108, 130, 145. 

 [Myiarchus] barbirostris Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 147. 

 Myiobius tristis Go.s.se, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 167; Illustr. Birds .lam., 1849, pi. 



41. — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 199. 

 {Tyrannula'] tristis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 191. 

 Blancus tristis Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn., 1855, 480. — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 



1862, 234.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 290. 

 {Pyrocephalus} tristis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 363, no. 5536. 

 Myiarchus tristis Coues, Proc. Ac Nat. Sci. Philad., July 2, 1872, 80.— Baikd, 



Brewer, and Ridgway', Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 333, footnote. 

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



ii, 1874, 333. 



Genus MYIODYNASTES Bonaparte. 



Myiodynmtes Bonaparte, Bull. Soc. Linn. Normandee, ii, 1857, 35 (ex Compt. 



Rend. , xxxviii, 1854, 657, nomcn nudum). (Type, Muscicapa andax Gmelin= 



M. maculata Miiller.) 

 Hypermitres Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 247. (Type, Scaphorhynchus chryso- 



cephahts Tschudi.) 



Rather large Tyrannida? (wing 104-120 mm.) with tarsus not 

 longer than middle toe with claw, exposed culmen not conspicuously 

 longer (usually about as long as, sometimes a little shorter) than 

 tarsus, gonys less than twice as long as mandibular rami, tail at 

 least three-fourths as long as wing, cro^^^l with a concealed yellow 

 patch, and margined laterally with a more or less distinct superciliary 

 stripe of whitish, pale yellowish or bufty, and with under parts broadly 

 streaked (at least on chest) with dusky, or else light yellowish, indis- 

 tinctly streaked on chest, or wath broad rufous edgings on remiges 

 and rectrices. 



" Eight specimens. '' Six specimens. 



