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from its pugnacious disposition. It is a constant resident and did 

 not seem more abundant in spring than in winter. In its habits 

 and appearance when flying, or perched on some twig, it resem- 

 bles very much the T. dominicensis, for which I mistook it until 

 I had procured a specimen. Both these birds are much more 

 powerful and active than the 2\ intrepidus, and in the present 

 minute subdivision of genera, should be separated from the genus 

 Tyrannus. Its flight is both powerful and rapid, and it frequently 

 swoops from its perch like a hawk on some object on the ground. 

 I took from the stomach of one an Anolis six inches in length. 



Einpidonax Bahamensis. This bird I believe to be new, at 

 least I have been unable to identify it by any description, and it is 

 not contained in any of the collections that I have had access to. It 

 comes nearer, perhaps, to E. Carrihcea than to any other species 

 I have seen. It is, however, possible that it may have been de- 

 scribed ; the descriptions of this genus are generally so meagre, 

 while the mutual resemblance of many of them is so great, that it 

 is almost impossible to identify the species positively. I saw only 

 three specimens, all in the month of March. There was nothing 

 pecuHar in its habits, which resembled those of others of the 

 genus that I had seen in the United States. 



Description. Adult male — Plumage above, dark cinereous 

 brownish olive, the olive tint most marked on the rump, and the 

 head darkest, with each feather showing a darker stripe in the 

 centre ; lores ashy white ; an incomplete white circle round the 

 eye, broadest behind and deficient above ; wings brownish, with 

 the edges of the coverts hoary, forming two transverse bands, the 

 posterior the most marked ; edges and tips of the secondaries and 

 tertiaries whitish, most conspicuously so toward the body. Tail 

 brown, with the edges of the feathers slightly olivaceous, and of the 

 outer feather toward the base hoary ; throat and abdomen pale 

 yellowish white ; sides of the head and flanks cinereous, gradually 

 shaded into the lighter color of the throat and abdomen ; breast 

 pale yellowish white washed with cinereous, except perhaps in the 

 centre. Tarsi black ; bill with the upper mandible, black ; lower, 

 light horn color, with the tip darker; length, .145; to end of 

 claws, .129; to end of wings, .190; extent, .253 ; wing from 

 flexure, .085 ; tail beyond wings, .035 ; tail, .060; tarsus, .014; 

 middle toe, .009, its claw, .0053 ; hind toe, .006, its claw, .0065 ; 



