58. MTIADECTES. 3^]^ 



Mult female (Dominica : F. A. Ober). General colour above dark 

 slate-colour the wing-coverts Uke the back ; the greater series of 

 the latter blackish, edged with slate-colour ; primary-coverts black • 

 quills black, edged with slaty grey, more broadly on the secondaries! 

 aU but the innermost of the latter being black 'in the centre of the 

 outer web, grey at the base and again near the tip ; centre tail- 

 teathers dark slate-colour, the remainder black, with a small spot of 

 white at the tip, increasing in extent towards the outermost the 

 two outer ones almost entirely white, with a blackish base and a 

 dusky mark near the tip of the outer web ; lores and base of nostrils 

 black, with a tinge of rusty over the fore part of the eye ; feathers 

 under the eye black, this shade extending onto the ear-coverts 

 which are otherwise dark slate-colour, streaked with white ; helow 

 the eye a white spot ; fore part of cheeks white, forming a laro-e 

 spot; hinder part of cheeks ashy grey, washed with chestnut; 

 chin white; throat and fore neck chestnut; remainder of under 

 surface of body light ashy grey, becoming paler on the lower breast 

 and abdomen; lower part of abdomen and under tail-coverts 

 rufous, becoming deep chestnut on the under tail-coverts ; thighs 

 slaty grey; under wing-coverts and axillaries slaty grey, tinged 

 with rusty ; lower under wing-coverts dusky ; quills dusky, white 

 at the base of the inner web. Total length 7-25 inches, " culmen 

 0-6o, wing 3-5, taU 3-3, tarsus 0-9. {Mus. Sahin cf- Godman.) 



The female differs from the male only in having a wash of brownish 

 ohve across the middle of the back. In the young each feather of 

 the upper plumage terminates with black, and has an adjoinino- sub- 

 termmal round spot of bright rufous ; the feathers of the under 

 surface are more rufous, with the terminal edge less distinctly 

 marked with black ; the throat and under tail-coverts are light 

 rufous ; the tail as in the adult. (Lawrence, Bull. U.S. Nat Mus 

 i. p. 53.) 



Swainson's Solitaire inhabits the islands of Dominica, Martinique 

 and Santa Lucia. ' 



a. Ad. sk. Dominica (Dr. Nicholls). Smithsonian Institution. 



4. Myiadectes sibilans. 



Myiadestes sibilans, Latrr. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. pp. 188, 486 

 {1878); Lister, Ibis, 1880, -p. 39. ^'^ ' 



Arlult female (S. Vincent : F. A. Ober). General colour above 

 black, washed with olive-brown on the lower back and rump, which 

 are more slaty grey than the upper back ; wing-coverts black, as 

 also the quills, the secondaries grey at the base and near the end 

 of the outer web ; inner primaries with a concealed spot of white 

 at the base of their outer web ; upper tail-coverts dark slaty grey, 

 inclining to blackish ; centre tail-feathers dark slate-colour, mar- 

 gined with black, the remainder of the feathers black, dusky 'slate- 

 colour on the inner web ; the penultimate tail-feathers for the most 

 part white, blackish for the greater part of the inner web and alon'^ 



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