242 Cory o// the Birds of the West Indies. [April 



breast; bell_\' dull orange rufous, shading into olive on the sides and 

 flanks; quills and tail dark brown; the secondaries with pale edges. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 6; wing, 2.75; tail, 2.25; tarsus, .60; bill, .60. 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Blacicus brunneicapillus Lawr. 



BlacicKs brioieicapillus Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. L P- 161 (iSyS) ; ib. 

 Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, pp. 59, 4S7 (1S78).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 

 15 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of head dark brown; back dull brown, tinged with 

 olive; throat grayish, tinged with rufous on the breast, and becom- 

 ing pale rufus brown on the bellj' and under tail tail-coverts; wings 

 and tail brown. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 5.25; wing. 2.50; tail. 2.45; tarsus, .60; bill, .48. 

 Habitat. Dominica. 



Blacicus blancoi Gundl. 



Blacicus blaiicoi Gundl. J. f. O. 1S74, p. 311; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. 

 Nat. Vn, p. 195 (1878).— Cory, List Bds. VV. L p. 15 (1SS5). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of the head olive brown, becoming grayish olive 

 on the back; throat dull white; breast and underparts pale rufous; 

 under wing-coverts rufous ; wings and tail pale brown ; shafts of 

 the tail-feathers reddish brown; uppei: mandible dark brown; lower 

 mandible pale. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length (skin), 5.50; wing. 3; tail, 2.50; tarsus, .50; bill, .53. 

 Habitat. Porto Rico. 



Genus Tyrannus Cuvier. 



Tyrainiiis "Cuvier Lee;. d'Anat. Comp. 1799-1S00, tabl. ii." 



Tyrannus rostratus Scj,. 



Tyrannus rostratus ScL. Ibis, 1S64, p. 87; ib. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 272. — 

 ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 53 (1S73).— Lawr. Pi"- U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. I, pp. 60, 191, 234, 240, 271, 35S (1878). — RiDGW. 

 Smiths. Misc. Coll. XIX, p. 470 (18S0).— Allen, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 

 Club, V, p. 196 (1S80).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 16 (18S5). 



