682 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM, 



legs and feet brownish black; length (skin), 210; wing, 103; tail, 

 85.5; exposed culmen, 28; tarsus, 21.5; middle toe, 16." 



Island of Grand Cayman, Greater Antilles (south of Cuba) ; Cay- 

 man Brae? 



Pitanyus caiidifasciatus (not Tyrannus caudifnsciatufi D'Orbigny) Cory, Auk, iii, 



1880, 502 (Grand Cayman); (?) vi, 1889, 32 (Cayman Brae); Cat. West Ind. 



Birds, 1892, 108, part (Grand Cayman). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mns., xiv, 



1888, 179, part (Grand Cayman). 

 Pitxin(]iis caymanensis Nicoll, Ihis, Stli ser., iv. Oft., 1904, 582 (islaTid of Grand 



Cayman, Greater Antilles). 

 Tnlmarchus caymnnensifi RinnwAV, Proe. Biol. Roc. Wasli.. xviii, Sept. 12. 1905, 



209. 



TOLMARCHUS JAMAICENSIS (Chapman). 

 JAMAICAN PETCHARY. 



Similar to T. caudifasciatus, but color of back, etc., browner and 

 averaging darker, crown patch sulphur to lemon yellow instead of 

 orange-yellow to tawny, and averaging smaller, with larger bill. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck, together with loral, suborbital, 

 and greater part of auricular regions, sooty black, the crown with a 

 large concealed patch of clear lemon, canary, or sulphur yellow; back, 

 scapulars, rump, and lesser wing-coverts plain deep grayish brown 

 (dark hair or broccoli brown), paler and grayer posteriorly; upper 

 tail-coverts darker grayish brown, more or less broadly margined 

 with rusty browm (sometimes nearly chestnut) ; tail dull black, 

 tipped wdth dull white (this usually suffused with pale grayish brown), 

 the inner webs of rectrices (except middle pair) with basal third or 

 more abruptly white or pale primrose yellow, the outer web of lateral 

 rectrix pale brownish gray edged with white; wings dusky, the 

 middle coverts broadly margined terminally with pale brownish gray 

 or yellowish white, the greater coverts and secondaries edged and 

 terminally margined with the same, the edgings much broader and 

 distinctly yellowish white on inner secondaries; primary coverts and 

 primaries ver\^ narrowly edged with very pale brownish gray or 

 grayish white; malar region and under parts white, the chest and 

 sides very faintly tinged with pale brownish gray, the under tail- 

 coverts frequently pale (primrose) yellow, the malar region usually 

 more or less flecked with dusky; axillars and under wing-coverts 

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

 dull yellowish white; bill, legs, and feet black; iris brown; length 

 (skins), 191-203 (199); wing, 105-112.5 (108); tail, 82-90.5 (85.9); 

 exposed culmen, 24-26.5 (25.3); tarsus, 21.5-22.5 (21.9); middle 

 toe, 15-17 (15.8).^ 



« One specimen. b Six specimens. 



