MYIADESTES. 495 
Of this species there are three specimens in the museum of the 
Philadelphia Academy ; the best and that described labelled “ Trini- 
dad,” another much duller in coloration marked “ Bresil,” and the 
third without any locality. Both indications are doubtless incorrect, 
the species belonging more probably to some one of the larger, more 
mountainous of the Windward islands of the Lesser Antilles.’”* 
Myiadestes elisabeth. 
Muscicapa elisabeth, Luemprye, Aves de la Cuba, 1850, 39, pl. v, fig. 3 
(“ Riusenor,’’ Cuba).—Myiadestes elisabeth, Cas. Jour. IV, 1856, 2 
(rocky mountains of western Cuba).—GunpLacu, Ann. N. Y. Lye. 
VI, 1858.421s. Cab. Jour. 1861, 328. 
Hab. Cuba. 
(No. 25,911.) Tail rather longer than wing, slightly emarginated ; quite 
graduated. Wing moderately pointed; Ist quill broad to tip, very slightly 
Myjiadestes elisabeth, LEMBEYE. (Cuba.) 
falcate, not pointed ; nearly half the 2d quill, which is also broad, and shorter 
than 7th, about equal to 8th; the 4th longest ; then 5th, 6th, 3d. Bill narrow 
and deep for the genus, differing from the rest of species; rictal bristles 
lengthened. 
Above uniform brownish-olive, more ashy on rump; beneath dull white ; 
the sides of neck ashy ; the breast, sides, axillars, and perhaps crissum tinged 
with the same. Eyelids fulvous yellow; cheeks below eye dusky, and a 
narrow dark line each side the chin; ear coverts more fulvous. The inner 
wing coverts and tips of longer axillars fulvous. The usual light patch at 
1 Since writing the preceding article I have had the opportunity of ex- 
amining three specimens of the species in the Lafresnaye Collection (4,453, 
4,434, 4,435), recently purchased by Dr. Bryant, and presented to the Boston 
Society of Natural History. These have a general resemblance to the bird 
just described, excepting that in one there is a trace of rufous in the tibial 
feathers. They are labelled “Martinique or South America,’’ and are evi- 
dently not authenticated as to locality. A young bird among them (No. 4,335) 
has the entire under parts brownish-red, with blackish edges to the feathers, 
the upper parts similarly spotted. 
