lO Cory on the Birds of the JVest Indies. [ Janviary 



Sp. Char. — Tail shorter than wing; upper surface very dark-brown, 

 almost black; a tinge of olive brown on the lower back and rump; 

 chin and portion of malar stripe joining base of lower mandible 

 white, the rest the color of throat; shafts of ear-coverts showing 

 delicate lines of white; the lower eyelid is also white ; throat bright 

 rufous, tinged with orange, separated from the malar stripe bj a 

 narrow black line ; breast and upper abdomen ashj gray, some of 

 the feathers often tipped with orange rufous; rest of underparts 

 like the throat; wings black; a white patch at base of inner webs 

 of first six primaries reaching and extending to the base of outer 

 web on the seventh, eighth, and ninth; central tail-feathers black, 

 becoming grayish at base; outer tail-feather siiowing a wedge- 

 shaped white mark on inner web, nearly reaching the base, which 

 is brownish black ; outer web showing brownish black on terminal 

 half, next feather marked like outer feather, but having much less 

 white, third narrowly tipped with white, rest black except the two 

 central feathers, as above described; bill black; legs pale yellow; 

 "iris hazel." Some specimens seem to lack the white spot at tip of 

 of third outer tail feather. 



Length about 7.20; wing, 3.30; tail. 2.75: tarsus. .95. 

 Habitat. St. Vincent. 



Myiadestes genibarbis Swains. 



Myiadestes genibarhis Swains. Nat. Libr. XIII, p 134(1838). — Baird, 

 Rev. Am. Bds. p. 423 (1864).— Gray. Handl. Bds. I, p. 366 (1869). 

 — Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I. p. 352 (1S78).— Cory, List Bds. W. 

 L p. 5 (1885). 



Myiadectes genibarbis Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 370 (1881). 



Myadestcs genibarbis Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V, p. 18 (1882). 



•'Upper surface pure slaty-plumbeous, forehead slightly washed with 

 olivaceous; lores. black; also a stripe below the white patch on the under 

 eyelid, assuming the color of the back on the ear-coverts, each feather of 

 which and the above-mentioned stripe having a narrow well-defined white 

 central streak behind, very faintly washed with brownish. From the 

 base of lower mandible a well-defined malar stripe runs backwards, 

 the anterior third of which is white, while the lower two-thirds have the 

 color of the throat, from which the malar stripe is separated by a narrow, 

 but distinct, black stripe, reaching close to the lower edge of the mandi- 

 ble. Throat and chin chestnut rufous, the white bases of the feathers on 

 the latter showing somewhat through. Breast and upper sides of abdo- 

 men lighter than the back, almost clear ash-gray, becoming gradually 

 lighter towards the abdomen : remaining underparts of the same color as 

 the throat, only somewhat paler, and assuming a faint olivaceous shade 

 on the upper abdomen ; tibia like the back, a few feathers being tipped 

 with rufous. Wings blackish, with pale edges on the primaries and two 

 ash-gray bars across the secondaries, leaving between them a deep black 



