Z'lA. Cory o/i the Birds of the West Indies. [April 



Sp. Char. — ''Above dull greenish olive, darker on the crown, and brighter 

 on the rump; tail dark brown, the outer web of the lateral feather 

 pale fulvous; smaller wing-coverts the color of the back; the 

 middle and larger coverts are brownish black, ending with white, 

 forming two bars across the wings; the quill-feathers are dark 

 brown, the third and fourth primaries are narrowly edged with 

 grevish white, the inner quills, just perceptibly edged with light 

 rufous; under lining of wings very pale yellow; throat greyish 

 white ; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pale whitish fulvous ; 

 thighs light brown ; vipper mandible brownt the under, whitish 

 horn color, dusky on the sides ; tarsi and toes brownish black. 



"The first primary is abnormally short, measuring but i 5-16 

 inches; third quill longest; tail emarginate, length, 4! inches; 

 wing, 23-16; tail, 2; bill, S; tarsus, 11-16." (Lawr. 1. c. orig. 

 descr.) 

 Habitat. San Domingo. 



' Empidonax acadicus (Gmel.). 



Mnscicapa acadica Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 947 (17S8). 



Miiscicapa piisilla Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 40 (1850). 



Myiarchus pusilla Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI], p. 307 (1S60) 



(Cuba) ? 

 Empidonax acadicus Gvs-D-L. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 240 (1865); 



ib.]. f. O. 1872, p. 427 (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 15 (1S85). 



Recorded from Cuba. 



Genus Contopus Cab an. 



Contofus Cabanis, "Journ. fur Ornith. Ill, p. 479 (Nov. 1855). 



Contopus pallidus (Gosse). 



Myiobius fallidus Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 166 (1S47). 



Blacicus pallidus ScL. P. Z. S. 1S61, p. 77.— Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 



199. — Gr.\y, Handl. Bds. I, p. 363 (1869). 

 Contopus pallidus ?,c-L. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 231 (1862).— March, Pr. x\cad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 290. — ScL. &: Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 



52 (1873). — A. & E. Newton, Ilandb. Jamaica, p. 107 (1881). — 



Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 15 (1885). 

 Contopus caribcBus var. pallidus Be Bwr. .& Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds 



II, p. 351 (1S74). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage above olive brown, darkest on the 

 head; rump tinged w-ith rufous; wing-coverts edged with rufous, 

 forming two wing-bands ; underparts dull grayish olive, slightly. 



