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coverts instead of being nearly unicolor, are conspicuously streaked 
with whitish. The rufous of throat extends farther down, that of 
belly and flanks farther forwards, reducing the plumbeous of ynder 
parts very materially, and confining it mainly to the breast. The 
chin is whitish for a considerably greater extent. The axillars are 
pale rufous, instead of ashy. The size is less; the form much the 
same. 
The present species approaches most closely to the description of 
M. genibarbis', by Swainson, but differs apparently in some appre- 
ciable characters. The black streak on each side the throat, in 
genibarbis, cuts off a stripe which is continuously white to the end 
of ear coverts, instead of becoming mixed with dusky on the middle 
third and changing then to rufous. The rufous of genibarbis does 
not extend as far forward, showing much less on the belly and flanks. 
In the uncertainty, however, as to whether Swainson described his 
‘specimen accurately or not, I will, for the present, make use of his 
name. 
The M. armillatus, of Vieillot, appears to differ in much greater 
extent of whitish on chin and side of lower jaw, in absence of the 
dusky mandibular stripe and white streaks on the ears, and in the 
yellow band on the tibia. It is possible, however, that the two may 
be identical; but the differences of J/. solitarius, as a separate 
species, is beyond a doubt. 
1 Myiadestes genibarbis, Sw. Jard. Nat. Library, XIII. Flycatchers, 1838, 
134, pl. xiii. 
Hab. ——_————? 
“Above clear cinereous; all under parts not red are of same color, but 
much paler; a whitish maxillary stripe, bordered by a black line (below), 
and the ears are black, striped with white lines. External edges of the wing 
feathers gray, except terminal half of primaries and a black band at basal 
half of secondaries; lateral tail feathers black, having ends of inner webs 
more or less white, the outermost almost entirely white, with outer edges of 
that and the next gray; the middle pair wholl¥ cinereous. Under plumage 
from chin to throat bright rufous ; which color descends a little on the breast, 
and is bordered on each side the chin by the black maxillary stripe resembling 
a whisker, already mentioned; breast and sides cinereous, nearly of as dark 
a tint as the back; as this color descends, however, it becomes paler and 
blends into the rufous of the belly, vent, and under tail coverts; bill deep 
black; legs very pale. Total length about 7.00; hill along gape, .70, front, 
-40; wings, 3.40, tail beyond, 2.00, from base, 3.00; tarsus, .80.’’ 
The locality of the specimen described is a matter of uncertainty—Swain- 
son supposing, from its apparent affinities, that might have come from Africa. 
It is evidently, however, West Indian. 
