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

 but usually with the yellow crown-patch smaller; length (skins), 198- 

 211(203); wing, 108-108.5 (108.3); tail, 85-89 (86.5); exposed culmen 

 23.5-25 (24.5); tarsus, 21.5-22 (21.7); middle toe, 16.5.^* 



Youn^.— Essentially like adults, but black of head much duller 

 and more brownish, the crown without any yellow; color of back, 

 etc., browner; middle and greater wing-coverts conspicuously mar- 

 gined with cinnamon-buff, and tip of tail tinged with the same. 



Island of Jamaica (Kingston; Spanishtown; Moneague; Mande- 

 vUle; Port Antonio; Priestmans River) . 



Tyranniis caudifasnaliis (not of D'Orbigny) Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 177; 

 Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 44.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1863, 

 288 (Jamaica). 



Pitangus caudifasciatus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18()1. 70 (Jamaica; cnt.); 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 222 (do.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 179, part 

 (Moneague, Jamaica).— Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1802, 199 (Jamaica).— 

 Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 311 (Jamaica).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 232, 

 part (Jamaica); Birds West Ind., 1889, 119, part (Jamaica); Cat. West Ind. 

 Birds, 1892, 13, 108, part (Jamaica).— Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 177 (Jamaica, 

 chiefly below 1,500 ft.).— Nicoll, Ibis, 1904, 577 (Jamaica). 



[Pitangus] caudifasciatus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 357, no. 5421, part (Jamaica) .- 

 Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 50, part (Jamaica).— Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885, 15, part (Jamaica). 



P[itangus] caudifasciatus Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 107. 



Pitangus jam aicemis Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, no. 1, Dec, 1892, 303 

 (Moneague, Jamaica; coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.). 



[Pitangus] jamaicen^is Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 128. 



Tolmarchus jamaicensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xviii, Sept. 2, 1905, 209. 



TOLMARCHUS GABBII i^Lawrence). 

 HAITIAN PETCHARY. 



Similar to T. faylori, but decidedly smaller, wing-edgings broader 

 and cinnamomeous, rectrices edged (on both webs) with cnmamon- 

 rufous, and inner w ebs of secondaries edged with buff or cinnamon- 

 buff. 



Adult waZ^.— Pileum very dark sooty brown or browmsh black, 

 .he crown with a large concealed patch of bright yellow (lemon to 

 cadmium) underlaid laterally and posteriorly by white; hindneck 

 similar in color to pileum, but less blackish; back, rump, scapulars, 

 and lesser wing-coverts plain sepia brown (paler on rump, darker 

 on upper back); upper tail-coverts darker, broadly margined with 

 rusty brown or chestnut; tail deep to dark grayish brown or sepia, 

 the outer webs of rectrices edged with cinnamon, the inner webs less 

 distinctly edged with paler cinnamon; wings dark grayish brown, 



a Three specimens. 



