BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



711 



Cst and eses) -Feilden, Ibis, 1889, 48G (Barbados; habits; descn eggs) - 



dad; cnt.). 5559.— Sclater and Salvin, 



J,,2:tl'L;L'™* -i™.™ B™,..sc„. Jo,,™ «. Orn., .Tan.. 1892, 80, in 

 text-H.«TERT,Novit.Zool.,ix, 1902,301, in («t. . 



SStiBlS; r-^;;S:rci™aS'c..„.Hn«; no., a^c. es.). 

 TYRANNUS CUBENSIS Richmond. 

 GIANT KINGBIKD. 



Adult male.-Yneun. and hindneck dark sooty b^J" ^f^^^^ 

 to nearly black), the crown with a concealed P''** "* ^"r ^ ^ X 

 or oran<4-red (orpiment orange to orange-chrome) underlaid laterallj 

 and posteriorly w-ith white; back, rmnp, scapulars, and lesser w ng- 

 c^erts pi deep brownish gray or grayish brown; upper tail- 

 cover browner, more or less distinctly margined with paler graysh 

 bri:^ tlil dark grayish brown or dusky, the l^^l^^^;^2?:^s 

 terminally with pale grayisli brown or dull whitish, their outer %\eos 

 nawy or indfstinctly edged with the same; wings deep gray^i 

 b"wn or dusky, the middle and posterior row of -- -™'^ ^J-' >^ 

 mar<.ined terminally with pale grayish or dull white, tbe greater 

 r;rts Ind secondaries edged with the same (the edgings mudi 

 broader on inner secondaries), the primary cover s and Pri-^ares 

 Ire narrowly edged with pale grayish; lores mixed gray and dusk,', 

 XrbTtal and auricular regions sooty bl-kish , ma ar regum . h te, 



^r^:;-^ir;::£r3?spi^r.n^ 



remiges eu^eu wi , n ^^^ii^. iris brown; legs and feet black; 



sometimes more brownish basally, ms '^^^w^ !^- 94 5-104 



.i f ^ • \ o\i oAQ (or-.'i)- wins, 130-138.5 U^cJ.y;, tan, j-±-> ivj-* 

 length (skms), 243-263 Uol ) , ^vm (22.3) ; middle toe, 



(98.4) ; exposed culmen, 31-35 (33.2) , tarsus, zi Zii k^^ j, 



18-19.5 (18.9). « 



MALES. 



One adult (male?) front Bahamas (partietalar island nn- 



known) 



Eleven adult males from Cuba . 

 Five adult males from Isle of Pines 



