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region and lower portion of auricular region grayish white or very 

 pale gray, the first indistinctly flecked with darker; chin and throat 

 white or grayish white, passing into very pale gray on chest, this 

 passing into white on abdomen and pale yellowish gray on flanks, the 

 under tail-coverts and anal region pale primrose yellow; axillars and 

 under wing-coverts primrose yellow, faintly tinged with gray (espe- 

 cially toward base), the basal portion with very narrow shaft-streaks 

 of darker grayish; inner webs of remiges broadly edged with dull 

 yellowish white; bill black, the mandible more brownish basally; 

 iris bro^\^l; legs and feet black; length (skins), 197-215 (208); wing, 

 107.5-115 (111.6) ; tail, 82-89 (86.9); exposed culmen, 24.5-27.5 

 (26.6); tarsus, 21-22.5 (21.7); middle toe, 15.5-17 (16.2).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the male and not always distinguishable, 

 but usually with the yellowish or tawny crown-patch smaller; length 

 (skins), 201-208 (204); wing, 104.5-105 (104.8); tad, 82-84 (83); 

 exposed culmen, 25-25.5 (25.2); tarsus, 21.5-22 (21.2); middle toe, 

 15.5.^ 



Bahamas (Abaco, Little Abaco, New Providence, Great Bahama, 

 and Andros islands). 



Pitangus caudifasdatus (not Tyrannus caudifasciatus D'Orbigny) Bryant, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H.,vii, 1859, 108 (New Providence I., Bahamas; habits); xi, 1866, 

 66 (New Providence). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 52 (Bahamas). 



Pitangus bahamensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., ix, 1864, 279 (Bahamas; coll. 

 H. Bryant).— Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 102; Auk, iii, 1886, 233; viii, 1891, 

 294 (New Providence I.), 298 (Abaco), 350 (Great Bahama; Abaco); Birds 

 West Ind., 1889, 120; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 108, 127 (Great Bahama, 

 Abaco, New Providence, and Andros islands, Bahamas). — Sclater, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 180 (Nassau, New Providence).— Northrup, Auk, 

 viii, 1891, 71 (Andros I.).— Ridgway, Auk, viii, 1891, 334 (Abaco), 335 (New 

 Providence).— BoNHOTE, Ibis, 1899, 514 (New Providence, habits); 1903, 292 

 (New Providence and Little Abaco; habits). — Bangs, Auk, xvii, 1890, 288 

 (New Providence). — Riley, Auk, xxii, 1905, 356 (New Providence). 



[Pitangus] bahamensis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 357, no. 5428.— Cory, List Birds 

 ^^■estInd., 1885, 15.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 128. 



P[itangus] bahamensis Ridgw.w, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 331. 



Tolmarrhus hahamrnsts Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Roc. \^'ash.. xviii, Sept. 2, 1905, 209. 



TOLMARCHUS CAUDIFASCIATUS (D'Orbigny). 

 CUBAN PETCHARY. 



Adult male. — Pileum, hindneck, loral, and suborbital regions, and 

 upper half (or more) of auricular region, sooty black, the crown 

 with a large concealed patch of cadmium j^ellow or tawny, the 

 lateral and posterior portions of this patch paler yellow (sometimes 

 white), especially the underlying portion of the feathers; back, 

 scapulars, rump, and lesser wing-coverts plain deep mouse gray or 

 brownish slate, usually slightly darker anteriorly, next to blackish 



o Nine specimens. ^ Two specimens. 



