1886.1 Cory 07i the Birds of the West Indies. g 



'* Male : — The entire upper plumage' is of a ricli dark brown, the crown is 

 darker and has the edges of the feathers of a lighter shade; tail and 

 quill-feathers of a darker brown than the back; axillars and under 

 wing-coverts white; the loi-es are blackish brown; the feathers 

 back of the eyes and the ear-coverts have narrow shaft-streaks of pale 

 rufous; the feathers of the neck and upper part of the breast are of 

 a warm dark brown, those of the chin and middle of the throat with 

 light rufous centres, those of the lower part of the neck and the upper 

 part of the breast have also light rufous centres, but in addition each 

 feather has a light terminal spot; on the lower part of the breast and 

 on the sides the feathers have white centres, bordered strikingly 

 with brown; the markings of the breast-feathers are squamiform in 

 shape, those of the sides lanceolate; the abdomen is white, a few 

 feathers on the upper part are very narrowly margined with brown ; 

 under tail-coverts brown, terminating with white; outer feathers 

 of thighs brown, the inner whitish; 'iris tea-color'; there is a naked 

 space around the eye; bill yellow, with the basal half of the upper 

 mandible dusky; tarsi and toes pale yellow." 

 The sexes are similar. 



"Length (fresh), 9 inches; wing, 5; tail. 3^ ; tarsus, i$;bill 

 from front, 15-16. from gape i^." (Lawr. orig. descr.) 

 Habitat. Dominicu. 



Geniis Sialia vSwains. 



Sialiu SwAiNSON, Zool. Journ. Ill, p. 173 (1827). 



Sialia sialis (Linn.). 



Motacilla sialis Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 187 (175S) ; ib. L p. 336 (1766). 



Sialia sialis Gundl. J. f. O. 1861, p. 324; ib. 1862, p. 177; ib. 1872, p. 

 409; ib. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 230 (1865) (Cuba).^ 

 Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 62 (1864).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 5 

 (1885). 

 Cuba ; no other West Indian record. 



Genus Myiadestes Swain.s. 



Myiadestes Swainson, Nat. Libr. Ornith. p. 132 (1838). 



Myiadestes sibilans Lawr. 



Myadestes sibilans Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 148 (1878) ; ib. Pr. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. Lp. 18S (1878).— Lister, Ibis. 1S80, p. 39.— Cory, 



List Bds. W. I. p. 5 (1S85). 

 Myiadectes sibilans Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 371 (1881). 

 Myadestes sibilans Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V, p. 17 (1882). 



