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reddish white, with blotches of reddisli brown and bluish irregularh' 

 intermixed, but chiefly arranged in the form of a crown around the 

 larger end."*^ 



Range. — Peculiar to Bahama Islands and Greater Antilles. (Six 

 species.) 



KKY TO THE SPECIES OF TOLMARCHUS. 



a. Inner webs of rectrices with l^asal third, or more abruptly yellowish white; tail 

 tipped with pale brownish gray or whitish. 

 h. Pileum dusky grayish, not approaching black. (Bahama Islands.) 



Tolmarchus bahamensis (p. (i78) 

 hh. Pileum black, brownish black, or very dark sooty. 

 c. Back grayish. 



d. Back brownish gray; pileum l)lack; 1)ill smaller (exposed culmen 24.5-27.5). 



(Cuba.) Tolmarchus caudifasciatus (p. 679) 



(Id. Back grayish olive; pileum dark sooty slate; l)ill larger (exposed culmen 



28). (Grand Cayman Island.) Tolmarchus caymanensis t p. 681) 



cc. Back brownish. (Jamaica.) Tolmarchus jamaicensis (p. G82) 



aa. Inner webs of rectrices passing gradually into dull whitish at extreme base; tail 



not tipped with brownish gray or whitish. 



h. Smaller (wing 101-105.5, tail 80-85, exposed culmen 22-25, tarsus 19-21); 



rectrices edged conspicuously with rusty. (Haiti.). .Tolmarchus gabbii (p. 083) 



hh. Larger (wing 113-119, tail 90-96.5. exposed culmen 25.5-29, tarsus 22.5-24.5); 



rectrices not edged with rusty. (Porto Rico.) Tolmarchus taylori (p. 684) 



TOLMARCHUS BAHAMENSIS (Bryant). 

 BAHAMAN PETCHARY. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck dull brownish slate, the crown 

 with a concealed patch of ocher or gallstone yellow or tawny, the 

 lateral and posterior (underlying) portions of this patch white or pale 

 yellow; back, scapulars, rump, and lesser wing-coverts plain brownish 

 gray, slightly tinged with olive; upper tail-coverts darker brownish 

 gray (sometimes dusky) with blackish shafts and margined with light 

 rusty brown or cinnamon; tail dull black or dusky, tipped with didl 

 white and ]:>ale grayish brown, the outer webs of rectrices narrowly 

 edged with brownish gray, that of the lateral rectrix pale grayish 

 brown, edged with white; inner webs of rectrices (except middle pair) 

 with basal third (approximately) yellowish white; wings dusky, the 

 middle coverts broadly margined with ])ale brownish gray (more 

 whitish on outer web), the greater coverts and secondaries edged with 

 pale yellowish gray or dull yellowish white (the edgings much broader 

 and clear yellowish white or pale yellow on inner secondaries), the 

 primary coverts and primaries narrowly edged with very pale brown- 

 ish gray; loral region light gray, suffused or intermixed with dusky, 

 the suborbital region darker, deepening into dark soot}'^ slate or 

 sooty blackish on upper half (or more) of auricular region; malar 



o Gosse, Birds of Jamaica, pp. 179, 180. 



