814 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



from the inner edge of the acrotarsiuni hy a narrow nonscutellate 

 strip; middle toe, with claw, a httle shorter than tarsus, its basal 

 phalanx united to outer toe for much the greater part, to inner toe 

 b}^* about half its length; outer toe (without claw) reaching to middle 

 of subterminal j)halanx of middle toe, the inner toe slightly but 

 decidedh' shorter; hallux shorter than inner toe, but decidedly 

 stouter, its claw shorter than the digit; all the claws rather large, 

 strongly curved, sharp. 



Coloration. — Above plain olive, the tail mostly rufous and wings 

 with rufous edgings; beneath plain gray, passing into pale yellowish 

 on abdomen and under tail-coverts. (Sexes alike.) 



Nidification. — Nest "a slight mattmg of twigs and leaves, lined 

 with cow's or goat's hair, placed in a fork or indentation or tlecayed 

 hollow ... never in a deep hollow."'* Eggs " clayish white, splashed 

 with spots and scratches, and about the large end with blotches, of 

 Vandyke brown, and pale sepia and slaty spots."" 



Range. — Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



HYLONAX VALIDUS iCabanis). 

 GOSSES FLYCATCHER. 



Adults (sexes aliJce). — Pileum, hindneck, back, rump, and scapulars 

 plain olive, the pileum very slightly darker and with indistinct shaft- 

 streaks of dusky olive; upper tail-coverts grayish brown or olive- 

 brown, passing into rusty brown (russet or cinnamon) on margins; 

 middle pair of rectrices grayish brown or olive-brown, edged with 

 rusty brown or cinnamon; remaining rectrices with outer webs gra}^- 

 ish brown or olive-brown, passing into russet or cinnamon on edges, 

 their inner webs cinnamon-rufous or rufous-cinnamon, except a 

 narrow streak of grayish brown next to shaft for terminal half (more 

 or less) ; wings dusky, (he middle and posterior row of lesser coverts 

 broadly margined terminally with cinnamon or light russet, greater 

 coverts broadly edged with the same, the* remiges with outer webs 

 deep cinnamon or cinnamon-rufous, except next to shaft, the edgings 

 paler, more buffy, and broader, on inner secondaries; loral, suborbital, 

 and malar regions dull gray (nearly mouse gray), the auricular region 

 similar but more olive; chin, throat, and upper chest gray (no. 6 or 

 no. 7), sometimes faintly tinged with olive, passing into paler and 

 more yellowish gray on breast, the remaining under parts pale (prim- 

 rose or straw) yellow; axillars and under wing-coverts buff or cream- 

 buff; inner wel)s of remiges broadly edged with vinaceous-cinnamon; 

 bill horn l)rovvn, darker terminally, the mandible paler basally; iris, 

 brown; legs and feet dusk}" brown to brownish black (in dried skins). 



Adult male. -^hengili (skins), 197-211 (205); wing, 98.5-105 (102.2); 



a March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 288. 



