370 TIMELTIDiE. 



bright fulvous ; iris hazel or dull orange " (Gosse). Total length 7-75 

 inches, culmeu 0-6, wing 3-8, tail 3-75, tarsus 0-85. 



Adult female. Similar to the male in plumage. Total length 7-25 

 inches, culmon 0*55, wing 3-4, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-8. 



Young in moult. Marked with orange-bufE spots on the end of the 

 feathers ; the throat orange-hufiP, with dusky margins to the feathers ; 

 otherwise like the adult. 



The Jamaican Solitaire is found in the mountains of Jamaica. 



a. Ad., b. Imm.'sk. Jamaica. Hugh Cuming [C.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Jamaica. Capt. Hamilton [P.]. 



d. cJ ad. sk. Spanishtown, Jamaica, Smithsonian Institution 



Mar. 18, 186o( W. T.March). [P.]. 



2. Myiadectes montanus. 



Myiadestes montanus, Cory, Bull. Nutt. Chn. Club, vi. p. 130 (1881). 



Adult male. Upper parts and two central tail-feathers slatj- grey ; 

 primaries and secondaries brownish black, showing white near the 

 base of the inner webs ; outer webs of primaries and terminal 

 portion of the outer webs of secondaries edged with grey ; throat, 

 crissum, and belly near the vent reddish brown, intermediate 

 between that of M. soUtarius and M. sibilans, but approaching 

 nearer the colour of the former ; rest of underparts pale grey ; outer 

 tail-feathers white, with black shaft, showing a dark tinge near the 

 extremity of the outer web ; second feather black, with the central 

 portion of the terminal half white, the black narrowing to the ex- 

 tremity, leaving the tip white ; third feather showing a triangular 

 patch of white at the tip : rest of tail-feathers, except the two 

 central ones, black ; bill black ; legs and feet pale ; iris brown. 

 Total length 7 inches, bill 0-38, wing 3-35, tail 3-38, tarsus 1. 

 (_Cory, I. c.) 



Cory's Solitaire inhabits the island of S. Domingo, where it 

 appears to represent M. solitarius of Jamaica. 



3. Myiadectes genibarbis *. 



Myiadestes genibarbis, Swains. Nat. Lihr. x. p. 134, pi. xiii. (c. 1838) ; 

 Baird, Bevietv Amer. B. p. 423 (1864) ; Sclater, P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 269 ; id. S^ Salv. Nornencl. Av. Neotr. p. 4 (1873) ; Later. Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. i. pp. 53, 3.52, 486 (1878). 



Myiadestes armiUatus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 335 (1850, nee VieilL). 



Ptilogonys genibarbis, Grai/, Hand-l. B. i. p. 366, no. 5580 (1869). 



* The following species has not been identified since Vieillot's time. If it 

 is ever made out, the synonymy will be as follows : — 



Myiadectes armillatus. 



Muscicapa armillata, Vieill. Ois. Am. sept. p. 69, pi. 42 (1802) ; id. N. 



Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxi. p. 448 (1818). 

 Ptilogonys ariuiUatus, &rai/, Gen. B. i. p. 281 (1846) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 



p. 366, no. .5.577 (186'J). 

 Myiadestes armillatus, Baird, Beview Amer. B. p. 423 (1864). 



Hah. Martinique ( Vieillot). 



