Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. I2Q 



•breast; belly dull orange rufous, shading into olive on the sides and 

 flanks; quills and tail dark brown ; the secondaries with pale edges. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 6; wing, 2.75; tail, 2.25; tarsus, .60; bill, .60. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Blacicus brunneicapillus Lawr. 



Blacicus bruneicapillus Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 161 (187S) ; ib. 

 Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 59, 4S7 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. \. p. 

 15 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of head dark brown ; back dull brown, tinged with 

 olive; throat grayish, tinged with rufous on the breast, and becom- 

 ing pale rufus brown on the belly and under tail tail-coverts ; wings 

 and tail brown. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 5.25; wing, 2.50; tail. 2.45; tarsus, .60; bill, .48. 

 Habitat. Dominica. 



Blacicus blancoi Gundl. 



Blacicus blancoi GuNDL. J. f. O. 1874, p. 311 ; ib. Anal. See. Esp. Hist. 

 Nat. Vn, p. 195 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 15 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of the head olive brown, becoming grayish olive 

 on the back; throat dull white; breast and underparts pale rufous; 

 under wing-coverts rufous; wings and tail pale brown; shafts of 

 the tail-feathers reddish brown; upper mandible dark brown; lower 

 mandible pale. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 5.50; wing, 3 ; tail, 2.50; tarsus, .50; bill, .53. 

 H'Abitat. Porto Rico. 



Genus Tyrannus Cuvier. 

 Tyyantius "Cuvier Leij. d'Anat. Comp. 1799-1800, tabl. ii." 



Tyrannus rostratus Sci.. 



Tyrannus rostratus ScL. Ibis, 1864, p. 87; ib. P. Z. S. 1S71, p. 272. — 

 ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 53 (1873).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. L pp- 60, 191, 234, 240, 271, 358 (187S). — RiDGW. 

 Smiths. Misc. Coll. XIX, p. 470 (1880).— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, V, p. 196 (1880).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 16 (1885). 



