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dull olive-grayish tips to wing-coverts and paler (some- 

 times nearly white) edges to tertials ; chest and sides 

 of breast olive-grayish, the sides and flanks much 

 tinged with same; chin and throat whitish, sometimes 

 tinged with sulphur-yellow; belly pale sulphur-yellow; 

 under wing-coverts dull buffy, tinged or mixed with 

 olive-grayish ; length (skins) 5.30-5.50, wing 2.80-3.05, 

 tail 2.60-2.75, exposed culmen .47-.50, tarsus .50-.55. 

 Hab. Yucatan (including Cozumel) and southern 

 Mexico (Cordova, etc.). 



C. brachytarsus Scl. Schott's Wood Pewee.^ 

 (P. Exposed culmen about twice as long as width of bill at nostrils. 



Colors much as in C. schottii, but grayer ; length (skins) 5.25- 

 5.70, wing 2.65-2.90, tail 2.40-2.70, exposed culmen .55-.60, 

 width of bill at nostrils .25-.30, tarsus .60-.65. Hab. Ba- 

 hamas. 



C. bahamensis Bryant. Bahaman Wood Pewee.'^ 

 c^. Belly, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts light ochraceous. 



Otherwise in color much like C. brachT/tarsus, but bill shaped as 

 in C. bahamensis; length (skins) 5.60-6.00, wing 2.75-2.80, tail 

 2.70-2.80. JIab. Cuba. 



C. caribaeus (D'Orb.). Cuban Wood Pewee.^ 



Genus EMPIDONAX Cabanis. (Page 327, pi. XCIV., fig. 4.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Above plain brownish, grayish, olive, or olive-greenish, 

 the wings with two lighter bands (across tips of greater and middle coverts), the 

 secondaries edged with the same color as the wing-bands, except toward base, there 

 being always a more or less distinct dusky bar behind tips of greater coverts ; lower 

 parts whitish, yellowish, or buffy, shaded with grayish, olive, or ochraceous across 

 chest ; upper mandible black, or dark brown, lower mandible pale-colored ; legs and 

 feet black. 



a\ Lower parts whitish or sulphur-yellowish, shaded, more or less, across breast 

 with grayish or olivaceous. 

 b\ Width of bill at nostrils decidedly greater than half the length of the ex- 

 posed culmen. 



1 Empidonax brachj/tarsus ScL., Ibis, 1859, 441. Contopus brachytarsus ScL., Cat. Am. B. 1862, 231. Cov- 

 topus schottii Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. 1869, 202. (Types of both compared, also additional specimens of 

 C. schottii.) 



' Empidonax- bahamensis Brtant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. vii. 1859, 109. Contopus bahamensis CORY, Bds. 

 Bahama Is. 1880, 101. 



3 Muscipeta carbaea D'Orb, La Sagra's Cuba, 1839, 77. Contopus caribxus B. B. & R. Hist. N. Am. B. ii. 

 1874, 351. 



