iSS6.] Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. -^39 



Myiarchas antillariiin SuNUEV. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. Fdrh. 1869, p. 599? — 

 Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 364 (1869). — Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium 

 Neotr. p. 52 (1873). — GuNDL. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 194 

 (1S78).— CoKY, List Bds. W. I. p. 15 (1885). 



Myiarchus stolidus var. antillarum Coues, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

 1S72, p. 79. — Bd. Bwr. & RiDGW. Hist. N. Am. Bds. II, p. 332 

 (1874)- 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of head olive brown, shading into grayish olive 

 on the back ; rump slightly tinged with rufous ; throat and breast ashy 

 gray; belly white; a faint tinge of yellowish white on the crissum; 

 quills and tail dark brown, showing a slight rufous edging; secon- 

 daries edged with dull white; a narrow mark of pale rufous tipping 

 the inner webs of some of the tail-feathers. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 7; wing, 3; tail, 3; tarsus, .85; bill, .65. 

 Habitat. Porto Rico. 



This species differs from il/. dominicensis by the absence of 

 the rufous tail-markings and in the bellv being white. It i.s 

 nearest allied to AT. fhcebe., and closely resembles that species, 

 but is easily distinguished from it by the absence of the broad 

 rufous edging on the inner webs of the tail-feathers. AI. p/icebe 

 also shows a tinge of 3'ellow on the belly, which is faint or 

 wanting in ]\I. antillaruin. 



Myiarchus oberi Lawr. 



Myiarchus erythrocercus ScL. P. Z. S. 1S71, p. 271. 



Myiarchus oberi Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 48 (1S7S) ; ib. Pr. U. 



S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 59, 191, 217, 487 (1878).— Allen, Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, V, p. 166 (iSSo;.— Scl. Ibis, i88o, p. 74. — Cory, List 



Bds. W. I. p. 15 (iSSs). 



Sp. Char. Male: — "Pileum, nape, and sides of the head dark umber- 

 brown upper plumage dark olive-brown, upper tail-coverts edged with 

 dull ferruginous; two middle tail-feathers blackish brown, the other 

 feathers are colored the same, except on the outer two-thirds of the 

 inner webs, where they are bright ferruginous; outer web of lateral 

 feather and ends of the others, ash color; quills brownish black, the 

 primaries narrowly edged with dark ferruginous; the outer secon- 

 daries are margined with very pale rufous, and the other secondaries 

 with pale yellowish white; wing-coverts dark brown, ending with 

 pale ashy tinged with rufous; under wing-coverts pale, dull yellow; 

 inner margins of quills light salmon-color; lores, throat, upper part 



