New Species of Bird of the Genus Pitangus. 289 



their ends, have a tinge of ferruginous ; the smaller wing-coverts are the 

 color of the back ; the other coverts are brown, the middle ones edged 

 with ferruginous, and the larger with grayish-white tinged with ferrugin- 

 ous; the quill feathers are dark-brown, margined with bright ferruginous, 

 except the inner quills, which have their edges narrowly grayish- white ; 

 under wing-coverts pale yellow, inner margins of quills light salmon 

 color; thi'oat gray; breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts, white with a 

 tinge of fulvous ; bill and legs black. 

 Length (skin) 1\ inch; wing 4; tail 3*1; tarsus 13-16; bill from front 1. 



Habitat. St. Domingo. Type in my collection. Prof. 

 G:ibb writes me : " This specimen was obtained at Hato 

 Viejo, on the Mao River, Province of Santiago, in an open 

 bushy tract, in a valley at the foot-hills of the Central 

 Mountain chain." 



Remarks. This is a smaller species than either Pitangus 

 caudifasciatus or P. Taylori; it can be at once distinguished 

 by the warm brown coloring of the upper plumage, instead 

 of dusky grayish brown, and by the bright ferruginous edg- 

 ings of the wing and tail feathers ; the color of the crest, 

 and the size and form of the bill, are much the same in the 

 three species. Mr. A. Salle, in the list of birds obtained by 

 him in St. Domingo, published in the Proceedings of the 

 Zoological Society, London, 1857, p. 230 (communicated by 

 Mr. Sclater) gives two species of Tyrannus, viz., T. matu- 

 tinus and T. intrepidus. 



Dr. Bryant, in " A list of the Birds of St. Domingo " 

 (Proc. of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1866, p. 

 289), says, under T. intrepidus: "lam inclined to believe 

 that there was a mistake in the identification of this bird, 

 and that probably the two tyrants found by Mr. Salle were 

 griseus and either caudifasciatus or some closely allied 

 species ; as such a bird is found in Cuba, Jamaica, and the 

 Bahamas." 



Dr. Bryant's conjecture that the Tyrannus intrepidus of 

 Mr. Salle would prove to be a Pitangus, would seem to be 

 confirmed by the species now described being of that genus ; 

 it may possibly be the bird obtained by Mr. Salle, and re- 



