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and tliroat being much liglitor, and the abdomen almost, white. No fulvous suffusion about 

 the forehead ; the dark leathers of the crown reaching to the bill ; the space between eye 

 and bill, the auriculars and sides of the head generally light brownish-olive, with no trace 

 of fulvous. Wings and tail plain dusky ; the outer web of the external rectriccs, the mar- 

 gins of the inner primaries, except just at their base, and the tips of greater and median 

 coverts, dull white, with no tint of olive or ferrugineous. Iris brown ; upper mandible and 

 feet black: lower mandible and mouth bright yellow. Length, 4.75; extent, 7.30; wing 

 from the carpus, 2.15 ; tail, 2.00 ; tarsus, 0.55 ; middle toe and claw, 0.45 ■ bill above, 0.40. 

 Hub. Fort AVliipplc, Arizona. 



Since this species was described by Dr. Coues, Mr. Giraud lias presented 

 to the Smithsonian Institution his type of Muscicapa fulvifrons, which, 

 though niucli like the palksccns, seem yet suflficiently distinct. The color- 

 ation is similar but darker, and more ochraceous throughout, with less olive 

 above. The wing bands are fulvous (the edges of secondaries more yellow- 

 ish), instead of grayish-white. While the bill seems actually smaller, the 

 other dimensions of i/. fulvifrons are considerably larger (length, 4.80 ; 

 wing, 2.65 ; tail, 2.40 ; tarsus, 0.61). The wing is considerably more point- 

 ed ; the first quill equal to, not shorter than, the sLxth ; the third, not fourth, 

 quill longest. (Baird.) 



