12 Cory on the Birds of the Wef^t Indies. [Januiiry 



Myadestes dominicanus Stejn. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. V. p. 22 (1882). 



"Above slaty plumbeous, with a very faint tinge of olivaceous on head 

 and back; lores and a narrow stripe above the eyes conspicuously suf- 

 fused with olivaceous; almost the whole malar stripe whitish, the feathers 

 the lower end tipped with chestnut; chin white, throat pure chestnut; 

 breast, flanks, and abdomen, except the lower middle part of the latter, 

 ash-gray, duller on the breast, more whitish on the abdomen, and very 

 faintly washed with olivaceous, especially on the flanks, where more 

 tinned with rufous ; lower middle of abdomen, crissum, and under tail- 

 coverts chestnut-rufous ; wings and tail as in M. sajictce-lucce, the ligh^ 

 basal spot on the outer web of the innermost primaries being very con- 

 spicuous and well defined; the black speculum on the secondaries larger 

 and the amount of white on the outer tail feathers rather less than in that 

 bird: bill black, feet pale yellow. The female differs only in having a 

 stronger wash of olive on the back." (Stejn. orig. descr. 1. c.) 



Length. 7.20: wing, 3.40; tail, 3.25; tarsus. .85. 

 Habitat. Dominica. 



Myiadestes montanus Cory. 



Myiadestes tnonianus CoK\, Bull. Nutt. Orn, Club, VI, pp. 130, 151 (1881) ; 

 t'b. Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 52 (1885) ; tb. List Bds. W. I. p. 



5 (1SS5). 

 Mytadectes montanus Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. VI, p. 370 (1S81). 

 Myadestes inontanus Stejn. Pr. U. S. Mus. V, p. 23 (1882). 



Sp. Char, i^ewrt/f.-— Upper parts and two central tail-feathers slaty gray; 

 primaries and secondaries brownish black, showing white near the 

 base of the inner webs; outer webs of primaries and terminal por- 

 tion of the outer webs of secondaries edged with gray; no white 

 spot on the chin ; a spot of chestnut at the malar apex; lower eye- 

 lid whitish; throat, crissum, and belly, near the vent, reddish 

 brown, intermediate between that of 71/. solitariiis and M. sibilans, 

 but approaching nearer the color of the former: rest of underparts 

 pale gray; outer tail-feather white, with black shafts, showing a 

 dark tinge near the extremity of the outer web ; second feather black, 

 with the central portion of the terminal half white, the black nar- 

 rowing to the extremity, leaving the tip white; third feather show- 

 ing a triangular patch of white at the tip; rest of tail-feathers, 

 except the two central ones, black ; bill black; legs and feet pale ; 

 iris brown. 

 Length, 7; wing, 3.35; tail, 3.38; tarsus, 1 ; bill, .38. 

 Habitat. Haiti. Inhabits the mountains. The type, in my 

 collection, is imique. although the bird is probably not uncom- 

 mon in some of the mountains in the interior. 



