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coverts pale (primrose) yellow; inner webs of remiges broadly edged 

 with light cinnamon-rufous; bill black, the mandible usually more 

 brownish basally; iris brown; legs and feet black or brownish black. 



^(Zi/Z^maZe.— Length (skins), 181-213 (199); wing, 93.5-102.5 (97.4); 

 tail, 83.5-91 (87.3); exposed culmen, 21.5-24 (22.6); tarsus, 24-25.5 

 (24.5); middle toe, 14-15 (14.6).« 



Adult female.— I jength (skins), 194-210 (203); wing, 95.5-105.5 

 (99.6); tail, 87-95 (89.7); exposed culmen, 21.5-24 (22.8); tarsus, 

 24.5-25 (24.8); middle toe, 14-15.5 (14.6).^ 



Islands of Dominica and Santa Lucia (also Guadeloupe?), Lesser 

 Antilles. 



Myiarchus erythrocercus Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 631, 

 part (Dominica). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 271 (Santa Lucia). — 

 Semper, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1872, 650 (Santa Lucia; habits). 



[Pyrocephalus] erythrocercus Gray, Hand-li?t, i, 1869, 362, no. 5522, part (Do- 

 minica). 



Myiarchus oberi Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci., i (pub. Dec), 1877, 48 (Domin- 

 ica, Lesser Antilles; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 

 59 (Dominica), 487, part (Dominica); (?) viii, 1885, 622 (Guadeloupe).— 

 Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 166 (Santa Lucia); Bull. Am. Mus. 

 N.H.,iv, 1892, 344 (crit.).— Sclater, Ibis, 1880, 74 (West Indies).— Cory, 

 Auk, iii, 1886, 239, part (Dominica; Santa Lucia); Birds West Ind., 1889, 

 126, part (Dominica; Santa Lucia), 292 (crit.).— Nicoll, Ibis, 1904. 570 

 (Dominica). 



[Myiarchus]' oberi Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 144. 



Myiarchus oberi oberi Riley, Smithson. Misc. Coll., quart, issue, xlvii, no. 1484, 

 Nov. 9, 1904, 275. 



Myiarchus tyrannulus oberi Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 14, part (Dominica; 

 Santa Lucia). — Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., viii, 1892, 336 (Dominica; 

 habits; crit.). 



Myiarchus tyrannulus (not Muscicapa tyrannula Miiller) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xiv, 1888, 251, part (Dominica; Santa Lucia); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1889, 326 (Dominica), 395 (Santa Lucia). 



a Seven specimens. 

 b Five specimens. 



