308 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



slightly less than its depth at same point; culnien slightly convex, 

 distinctly but not sharply ridged; gonys slightly longer than mandi- 

 bular rami, straight, ascending terminally, slightly prominent basally. 

 Nostril small, longitudinally elliptical or narrowly ovate, situated 

 much nearer to culmen than to tomium, partly covered by an antrorse 

 or semierect prefrontal tuft of short, stiff, feathers without elongated 

 bristle-Uke tips. Rictal region with obvious but not conspicuous 

 bristles, the feathers of malar apex and chin with rather distinct 

 bristle-hke, semiantrorse tips. Orbital region mostly feathered. 

 Wing moderate, much rounded, very concave beneath, the longest 

 primaries exceeding distal secondaries by about one-fifth the length 

 of wing; sixth and seventh primaries longest, the eighth slightly 

 shorter than fifth, the ninth shorter than first, the tenth (outer- 

 most) more than half as long as ninth. Tail slightly (but decidedly) 

 more than half as long as wing, strongly rounded, the rectrices not 

 rigid, moderately broad, with shaft slender and tip soft and rounded. 

 Tarsus nearly as long as outer hind toe with claw, the planta tarsi 

 with a single row of large quadrate scutella, these in contact on 

 inner side with the similar but somewhat larger scutella of the acro- 

 tarsium but on the outer side separated by a longitudinal space, 

 undivided for the greater part but on lower portion broken into 

 several irregular scutella ; outer hind toe distinctly longer than outer 

 front toe; inner front toe relatively short, reaching (without claw) 

 but little beyond subterminal articulation of outer toe, its claw 

 falling decidedly short of base of claw of outer toe. 



Coloration. — Above plain olive, including tail, the crown with a 

 yellowish patch (enclosing a smaller one of dull red in adult male) ; 

 under parts pale yellowish, streaked and spotted with dusky. 



Range. — Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. (Monotypic.) 



NESOCTITES MICROMEGAS (Sundevall). 



HAITIAN PICTILET. 



Adult male. — Forehead grayish-ohve, the feathers of posterior por- 

 tion tipped with olive-yellow; rest of pileum ohve-yellow, citron 

 yellow, or dull canary yellow superficially (the feathers olive beneath 

 surface), the posterior crown or anterior portion of occiput with a spot 

 of brownish red (nearest madder brown, but brighter and more red- 

 dish) ; rest of upper parts plain oUve-green, slightly more brownish on 

 secondaries, the hindneck sometimes tinged with yellow ; superciliary 

 region, upper portion of auricular region, and sides of neck grayish 

 brown, the latter (also lower portion of hindneck) more or less dis- 

 tinctly spotted with dull whitish or pale yellowish buffy; lower por- 

 tion of auricular region streaked with whitish and brownish gray; 

 loral and suborbital regions dull white to pale brownish buffy; malar 

 region, chm, and throat yellowish white, the first narrowly (some- 



