236 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [April 



Contopus hispaniolensis (Bryant). 



Tyraiiitiila carrihcEa var. hispaniolensis Bryant. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 



XI, p. 91 (1866). 

 Blacicus caribavis var. hisfanio/ensis Gray, Mandl. Bds. I. p. 363 (1S69). 

 Contopus carribcKHS var. hispaniolensis Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. 



Bds. H, p. 351 (1874)- 

 Contopus frazeri Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VHI, p. 94 (1S83). 

 Sayornis dominicensis Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VIII, p. 95 (1S83). 

 Co7itopus hispaniolensis Cory, Bds. Haiti iS: San Domingo, p. Si (1885) ; 



ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 15 (1S85). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage grayish olive; feathers of the crown 

 dark brown, edged with olive; throat asliv, becoming oli\e on the 

 sides of the breast, and yellowish brown on the abdomen and cris- 

 sum ; wing-coverts pale at the tips, forming two very dull wing- 

 bands; secondaries very narrowly edged with pale brownish white; 

 tail brown ; under wing-coverts pale yellowish brown. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 5.50; wing, 3; tail, 2.70; tarsus, .58; bill, .52. 

 Habitat. Haiti and San Domingo. 



Contopus virens (Linn.). 



Muscicapa z'irens 'Lii<:'N. Syst. Nat. I, p. 327 (1766). — D'Orb. in La 



Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba. Ois. p. 86 (1S40). 

 Myiarchus virens Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 307 (1S60) 



(Cuba). 

 Contopus virens Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 239 (1865); ib. 



J. f. O. 1S72, p. 424 (Cuba).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 15 (1885). 



Accidental in Cuba. 



Genus Sayornis Bonap. 



Sayornis Bonaparte. "Coll. Delattre. p. 87 (1854)." 



'Sayornis phoebe (Lath.). 



Muscicapa phcebe Lath. Ind. Orn. II, p. 489 (1790). 



Muscicapa fusca Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 931 (178S). — Lem3. Aves Cuba. 



p. 41 (1850). 

 Muscicapa lembeyei Gundl. Journ. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VI, p. 314 



(1S52) (Cuba). 

 Aulanax fuscus Gundl. J. f. O. 1856, p. i (Cuba). 

 Myiarchus lembeyii Hkkwek, Pr. Bost Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306(1860) 



(Cuba). 



