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eton leaves and tine hairy substance, interwoven with cobwebs and 

 cotton, or the soft down from the corkwood tree, and lined with very 

 fine tendrils and feathers ; the eggs are two in number and vary much 

 in shape and markings ; the general color is a very pale buff, with a 

 scarcely perceptible pink tinge when fresh ; round the blunt end is a 

 circle of spots of brown, purple, and reddish-brown, with occasional 

 scattered spots on the body of the egg ; they measure ,80 inch by .64 

 inch ; in a few instances the spots may be found more or less confluent 

 at the sharp end. 



22. Myiarchus oberi (Lawr.). Pippiree gros-tete. 



$ Length, 9 inches; ex})anse, 12^ inches; wing, 4 inches; tail, 3| 

 inches. 



This is rather a foolish bird, not abundant, found in the mountains 

 and also in the vicinity of dwellings, estates, buildings, &c.; feeds on 

 winged insects ; is fond of remaining for several minutes perched on a 

 dry shrub or twig and uttering at intervals its call-note, ^^pleet, pleetJ^ 

 Mr. Ober says this bird is called the " Sunset-bird" in Dominica, as it 

 utters at sunset a note resembling " soleil-coucher " ; 1 have studied 

 this bird particularly, and never heard a note from it that could be ren- 

 dered thus. 



The nest is generally placed in a hole in a tree or in the end of a 

 bamboo fence ; one which I procured on the 15th April, 1882 (from a 

 bamboo-joint, part of a cattle pen at Balthazar estate), was composed 

 of cocoanut fiber, human hair, the skin of a snake, horse hair, and bits 

 of old rag ; another from a hole in a Cashew tree was composed of stuff- 

 ing from an old saddle, and lined with horse hair. 



The eggs are three and sometimes four in number, of a light buff 

 color, thickly scribbled and blotched with purplish-brown ; they meas- 

 ure .06 inch by .70 inch, .88 inch by .72 inch, and .90 inch by .72 inch. 



23. [Blacicus flaviventrisLawreuce. "Flycatcher? Sp. ?" 



Upper plumage dark hair-brown, deeper in color on the crown ; tail 

 colored like the back ; quills brownish-black ; wing-coverts dark brown, 

 edged with clear pale rufous ; throat of a dull pale fulvous; breast and 

 abdomen pale yellow, intermixed with dusky; upper mandible black 

 the under clear light yellow; feet black. 



In size about the same as B. hrunneicapillus ; wing, 2.50 inches ; tail, 

 2.50; tarsus, .50; bill, .50. 



** Shot at Hampden, St. Andrews, Grenada, 16th March, 1880." 



Type in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks: The only species necessary to compare it with is B. brun- 

 neicapilhis from Dominica ; it differs from that, in having the abdomen 

 yellow instead of reddish fulvous and the tail not tipped with fulvous ; 

 the under mandible is entirely yellow, not whitish with the end dusky 

 as in hrnnneieapiUus. 



