Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. \2\ 



Sp. Char. — "Above dull greenish olive, darker on the crown, and brighter 

 on the ruinp; tail dark brown, the outer web of the lateral feather 

 pale fulvous; smaller wing-coverts the color of the back; the 

 middle and larger coverts are brownish black, ending with white, 

 forming two bars across the wings ; the quill-feathers are dark 

 brown, the third and fourth primaries are narrowly edged with 

 greyish white, the inner quills, just perceptibly edged with light 

 rufous; under lining of wings very pale yellow; throat greyish 

 white ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pale whitish fulvous ; 

 thighs light brown ; upper mandible brown, the under, whitish 

 horn color, dusky on the sides ; tarsi and toes brownish black. 



"The first primary is abnormally short, measuring but i 5-16 

 inches; third quill longest; tail emarginate, length, 4! inches; 

 wing, 23-16; tail, 2; bill, S; tarsus, n-i6." (Lawr. 1. c, orig. 

 descr.) 

 Habitat. San Domingo. 



Genus Empidonax Caban. 



Empidonax Cabanis, Journ. fiir Ornith. Ill, p. 280 (1855). 



Empidonax acadicus (Gmel.). 



Muscicafa acadica Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 947 (1788). 



Muscicapa ftisilla Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 40 (1850). 



Myiarchns pusilla Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (i860) 



(Cuba) .? 

 Empidonax acadicus GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 240 (1865) ; 



ib.]. i.O. 1872, p. 427 (Cuba).— Cory, ListBds.W. I. p. 15(1885). 



Recorded from Cuba. 



Genus Contopus Caban. 

 Cojitopus Cabanis, "Journ. fiir Ornith. Ill, p. 479 (Nov. 1855). 



Contopus pallidus (Gosse). 



Myiobins pallidas Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 166 (1847). 



Blacicus pallidus ScL. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 77. — AlbrecHT, J. f. O. 1862, p. 



199. — Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 363 (1869). 

 Contopus pallidus ScL. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 231 (1862). — M.A.RCH, Pr. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 290. — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 



52 (1873). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 107 (18S1). — 



Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 15 (1885). 

 Contopus caribcEus var. pallidus Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. 



II, p. 351 (T874). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage above olive brown, darkest on the 

 head; rump tinged with rufous; wing-coverts edged with rufous, 

 forming two wing-bands; underparts dull grayish olive, slightly. 



