Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Contopus hispaniolensis (Bryant), 



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Tyrannula carrihcea var. hispaniolensis Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



XI, p. 91 (1866). 

 Blacicus cariboeus var. hispaniolensis Gray, Ilandl. Bds. I. p. 363 (1S69). 

 Contopus carribceus var. hispaniolensis Bd. Bvvr. & RiDGW. Hist. N. Am. 



Bds. II, p. 351 (1874). 

 Contopus frazeri CoKY, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VIII, p. 94 (1883). 

 Sayornis dominicensis Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VIII, p. 95 (1S83).. 

 Contopus hispaniolensis Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 81 (1885); 



ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 15 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage grayish olive; feathers of the crown 

 dark brown, edged with olive; throat ashy, becoming olive on the 

 sides of the breast, and yellowish brown on the abdomen and cris- 

 sum ; wing-coverts pale at the tips, forming two very dull wing- 

 bands ; secondaries very narrowly edged with pale brownish white ; 

 tail brown; under wing-coverts pale j^ellowish brown. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 5.50; wing, 3; tail, 2.70; tarsus, .58; bill, .52. 

 Habitat. Haiti and San Domingo. 



Contopus virens (Linn.). 



Muscicapa virens X^vs.'i^i. Syst. Nat. I, p. 327 (1766). — D'Orb. in La 



Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba. Ois. p. 86 (1840). 

 Myiarchus virens Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (1S60) 



(Cuba). 

 Contopus virens GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 239 (1865) ; ib. 



J. f. O. 1872, p. 424 (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 15 (1S85). 



Accidental in Cuba. 



Genus Sayornis Bonap. 

 Sayornis Bonaparte, "Coll. Delattre, p. 87 (1854)." 



Sayornis phoebe (Lath.). 



Muscicapa phcebe Lath. Ind. Orn. II, p. 4S9 (1790). 



Muscicapa fusca Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 931 (178S). — Lemb. Aves Cuba, 



p. 41 (1850). 

 Muscicapa lembeyei GuNDL. Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 314 



(1852) (Cuba). 

 Aulanax fuscus GuNDL. J. f O. 1S56, p. i (Cuba). 

 Myiarchus lembeyii Brkwek, Pr. Bost Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (i860) 



.(Cuba). 



