MYIADESTES. 493 
“ Bill blackish; a white spot on the sides of the throat, and at its origin 
(the chin) immediately below the lower mandible (the two continuous) ; the 
eye surrounded by the same color. Head, back, rump, two intermediate tail 
feathers, and the breast of a grayish-slate, paler below. Wing- and tail-feathers 
blackish, bordered externally by gray, the three lateral on each side of the 
tail more or less white. Belly and hinder parts brownish-rufous ; a beautiful 
yellow in form of a bracelet on the feathers of lower part of leg; feet brown. 
Length, 6 inches 3 lines.” Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 69. 
“Young, before the first moult, grayish-ash above; head brown with yel- 
lowish spots ; feathers of throat and hinder parts blackish at their extremity, 
and yellowish elsewhere.” Viedllot, Encyclop. Méth. II, 824. 
According to Vieillot this species is found in Martinique, where 
it dwells in the elevated regions, and on account of its remarkable 
note is known as the ‘‘ Musicien” or “ Siffieur de la Montagne.” 
The differences between Vieillot’s description and the Jamaican 
bird usually called armillatus, have already been referred to. Vieil- 
lot’s figure represents the tail as more rounded; the legs longer and 
distinctly scutellate, which, however, may be an error of the plate. 
Myiadestes gemibarbis. 
Myiadestes genibarbis, Sw. Jard. Nat. Libr. XIII. Flycatchers, 1838, 
134, pl. xiii. ; 
Hab. Some one of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles ? 
General appearance that of MM. solitarius, of Jamaica. Whole upper parts 
lead blue; wings and tail marked as in the other species of its section. The 
throat and upper part of jugulum, the crissum, anal region, belly, and 
flanks are brownish-red or rufous. The breast is plumbeous, paler than the 
back. A narrow, dusky or blackish line from the lower edge of the mandible 
borders the rufous of throat, and cuts off a mandibular stripe, which is reddish- 
white as far as the eye, but then becomes mixed with blackish, and passes 
again as far as the end of cheeks into rufous like the throat. The extreme 
chin is also reddish-white, though somewhat separated from that of side of 
lower jaw by the dusky line mentioned. The ear coverts are blackish, each 
with a central streak of whitish, sometimes tinged with reddish. A whitish 
patch on under eyelid. The axillars are pale rusty, the tibia plumbeous. 
Legs yellow. Bill black. *. 
Total length, 7.00; wing, 3.40; tail, 3.70; exposed portion of 1st primary, 
81, of 2d, 2.12, of longest (4th) (measured from exposed base of Ist primary), 
2.60; length of bill from forehead, .55, from nostril, .25, along gape, .75; 
tarsus, .86. l 
This species, though in general, similar to IZ. solitarius, is still 
very appreciably different. Its most striking peculiarity is in the 
dusky line each side the throat, cutting off above it a stripe, first 
reddish-white, then mixed with dusky, and then rufous like the 
throat, this color reaching to posterior end of ear coverts. The ear 
