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dull olive-grayish tips to wing-coverts and paler (some- 

 times nearly white) edges to tertials ; chest and sides 

 of breast olive grayish, the sides and flunks much 

 tinged with same; chin and throat whitish, sometimes 

 tinged with sulphur-yellow; belly pale suljjhur-yellow; 

 under wing-coverts dull buff}-, tinged or mixed with 

 olive-grayish ; length (skins) 5.30-5.50, wing 2.80-3.05, 

 tail 2.60-2.75, exposed culmen .47-.50, tarsus .50-.55. 

 Ifab. Yucatan (including Cozumel) and southern 

 Mexico (Cordova, etc.). 



C. brachytarsus ScL. Schott's Wood Pewee.' 

 d'. Exposed culmen about twice as long as M'idth of bill at nostrils. 



Colors much as in C. schottii, but grayer; length (skins) 5.25- 

 5.70, wing 2.65-2.90, tail 2.40-270, exposed culmen .55-.60, 

 width of bill at nostrils .25-.30, tarsus .60-.65. Hab. Ba- 

 hamas. 



C. bahamensis Bryant. Bahaman Wood Pev/ee.' 

 c*. Belly, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts light ochraceous. 



Otherwise in color much like C brachytarsus, but bill shaped as 

 in C. bahamensis; length (skins) 5.60-6.00, wing 2.75-2.80. tail 

 2.70-2.80. Hab. Cuba. 



C. caribaeus (DOr.n.). Cuban Wood Pewee.' 



Genus EMPIDONAX Cabanis. (Page 327, ].l. XCIV., fig. 4.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Above plain brownish, grayish, olive, or olive-greenish, 

 the wings with two lighter bands (across tips of greater and middle coverts), the 

 secondaries edged with the same color as the wing-bands, except toward base, there 

 being alwaj-s a more or less distinct dusky bar behind tips of greater coverts ; lower 

 parts whitish, yellowish, or butl'y, shaded with grayish, olive, or ochraceous across 

 chest ; upper mandible black, or dark brown, lower mandible pale-colored ; legs and 

 feet black. 



rt'. Lower parts whitish or sulphur- j-ellowish, shaded, more or less, across breast 

 with grayish or olivaceous. 

 bK Width of bill at nostrils decidedly greater than half the length of the ex- 

 posed culmen. 



> Empidonax brachytnrtm ScL., Ibis, 1859, 441. Conlnpm hraehylamm ScL., Cat. Am. B 1862, 231. Co,i- 

 I'.fiiin nckoiiii Lawr., Add. Lye. N. T. ix. 1869, 202. (Tjpcs of both compared, also adJitioDal spceimcDS of 

 C. achollii.) 



' Emplilnnnx hnhamtn,;, Bryast, Proc. Boft. Sue. N. 11. vii. ISafl, 109. ConU.piu bnhamenMi, CoRT, EJs. 

 Rabama Is. 1330, 101. 



* Miuciptta carbnea D'OiiB. La Sagra's Cuba, 1839, 77. Cmtupat c<iribxm B. B. A K. Iliit. X. Am. B. ii. 

 1S74, 331. 



