I0O BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
sides of the breast; wings, brown; secondaries and coverts edged 
with dull white; under wing-coverts, pale yellow; tail, brown; 
feathers faintly tipped and edged with dull white; upper tail-coverts 
edged with pale rufous. 
Length 8.50, wing 4.75, tail 3.75, tarsus .48, bill 1, broad and 
stout. 
This Flycatcher is an abundant summer visitant, and perhaps a 
resident. After May 15, we found it common on all the islands 
south of New Providence. Never having found its nest, I am 
unable to state anything regarding its breeding habits. Its food 
consists principally of insects of different species, which it pursues 
and catches with great dexterity. 
MIARCHUS STOLIDUS VAR. LEUCAYSIENSIS. (Gosse.) Bryant. 
RUFOUS-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 
Winter Plumage, Male.— Above, brownish olive, becoming darker 
upon the head, and shading into rufous on the rump; under parts, 
ashy white, shading into yellowish upon the abdomen and crissum; 
wings, dark brown, the coverts tipped and edged with dull white, 
forming two wing-bands; the basal half of the outer webs of the 
primaries, except the first two, edged with rufous, some of the sec- 
ondaries edged with white; under wing-coverts, pale yellowish white ; 
tail, dark brown, the feathers bordered with rufous upon the inner 
