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base of quills, visible internally as a yellowish-white bar across the wing, 
externally as a fulvous brown bar followed by a blackish one, and again a 
fulvous. In other words, the olive of upper parts is varied on the wings by 
having the outer webs of quills, except outer primaries, fulyous olive, crossed 
near the base by a broad blackish bar. Central tail feathers like back ; others 
blackish ; outermost ashy for most of length, and like next, tipped with white. 
Bill black ; the base below white. Legs flesh color? 
(No. 25,911, 4.) Total length, 7.50; wing, 3.55; tail, 3.80; graduation of 
tail, .25; difference of 10th and longest quill, .66; exposed portion of Ist 
primary, 1.00, of 2d, 2.15, of longest (5th) (measured from exposed base of 1st 
primary), 2.60; length of bill from forehead, .56, from nostril, .31, along gape, 
-70; tarsus, .82; middle toe and claw, .78, claw alone, .26; hind toe and claw, 
.52, claw alone, .26. 
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sonian, tor’s | and Locality. Goatees Received from Collected by 
No. No. | Age. ? 
25,911 & | Cuba. wile Drv.J. Gundlach. Pia tAsccer 
21,645 ae Donna del Gate, Dee. 11. Chas: Wright. wi Miah. Seer 
21,670 Bis fof ST Caba,s|s 50" Oo a aivae usm lS AG at alate te career 
21,646 oe fof SF nists Cant atmo as epee PE Ges 
23.543 56 .. | Monte Libano,Cuba.| Sept. 24. a Sams! Wi iBbme oce yc 
23.542 oe Blo S| Sli Sscodscoot een UR oy noe fe Pen ARS? 4c 
341 ae od | Cuba. aS Cab Lawrences. . | ok \ameswe 
Myiadestes melamops. 
Myadestes melanops, Savin, P. Z. 8. 1864, 580, pl. xxxv (Tucurrique, 
Costa Rica). 
Hab. Costa Rica. 
(No. 30,501.) Wing moderately pointed; Ist quill about one-third the 
longest; 2d scarcely longer than 8th; 4thand 5th longest. 
Above bluish-slate color; rather lighter below ; middle of belly somewhat 
paler. Forehead, cheeks anterior to eyes, and chin black; axillars whitish 
at ends, the bases of the quills showing the usual patch on the inner face of 
wing, which in this species is white; externally it is ashy, scarcely appre- 
ciable, and followed by the usual dusky bar. Quill- and tail-feathers black- 
ish, the central of the latter scarcely more ashy, as is the case in the terminal 
portion of the outer two feathers and the outer edges of the outermost; both 
obscurely tipped with whitish. Bill reddish-yellow; legs and feet clear 
yellow. 
(No. 30,501.) Total length, 7.25; wing, 3.60; tail, 3.45, graduation, 40, 
emargination slight; difference of 10th and longest quills, .70; exposed 
portion of 1st primary, .90, of 2d, 2.30, of longest (4th) (measured from ex- 
posed base of lst primary), 2.75; length of bill from forehead, .60, from 
nostril, .30, along gape, .70; tarsus, .81; middle toe and claw, .79, claw alone, 
.24; hind toe and claw, .58, claw alone, .28. ‘ 
In some specimens the pure clear bluish-plumbeous of back is 
faintly glossed behind with olive brown. Young birds have the bill 
