DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF MYIARCHUS, PRESUMABLY 

 FROM THE ORINOCO DISTRICT OF SOUTH AMERICA. 



Bj ROBERT RIDCl^Air. 



Myiarchus coalei, sp. uov. 



Sp. CHAR. — Most resembling M. nigriceps Scl., but much smaller, 

 with throat and chest deeper ash, belly and flanks paler yellow, back 

 darker olive, both webs of tail-feathers edged with fulvous, and middle 

 wing-coverts conspicuously tipped with pale buffy or buffy whitish. 



Adult (type No. 106040, U. S. Nat. Mus.) : Entire pileum sooty black j 

 back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain 

 dark olive, darkest anteriorly; wings and tail blackish; middle wing- 

 coverts abruptly and very distinctly tipped with buffy whitish ; greater 

 coverts edged with light olive, but without light tips ; tertials edged 

 with buffy white; secondaries edged, except near base, with pale rusty 

 or fulvous ; tail-feathers edged on both webs with pale rusty or ful- 

 vous ; lores, malar region, chin, throat, and chest ash-gray, darkest lat- 

 erally; rest of under parts pale sulphur-yellow; bill and feet wholly 

 deep black. Length (skin) 5.50, wing 2.75, tail 2.75, exposed culmen 

 .56, width of bill at frontal feathers .30, tarsus .70. 



The type specimen was kindly presented to the National Museum by 

 Mr. H. K. Ooale, of Chicago, to whom I take great pleasure in dedicating 

 the species. 



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[Proceedings of the United States National Museam, 1886.] 



