266 Cory on a Nc-v Myiarchus. [J"'y 



types the tails are black. Another (No. 78,124 U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 9 ad., Guanajuato, Mexico, A. Dug6s), is very much worn 

 and badly discolored. The species is found in considerable num- 

 bers among the bushes and grasses along the drainage canals and 

 about the lake shores. 



A full series of the Savanna Sparrows is greatly needed from 

 all parts of Mexico and Central America, and it seems not im- 

 probable that one or two other forms will have to be characterized 

 before tlie specimens will begin to fit gracefully into the places 

 assigned to them. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW MTIARCHUS FROM 

 THE WEST INDIES. 



BY CHARLES B. CORY. 



Myiarchus berlepschii, sp. nov. 



Sp. Char. (Type, No. 12,535 Coll. C. B. Cory.) Top of the head dark 

 brown; back and rump distinctly dark olive, shading into rufous on the 

 tips of the upper tail-coverts. Throat pale ashy, somewhat darker on the 

 upper breast; rest of underparts pale yellow. Primaries and secondaries 

 dark brown edged with dull rufous, the rufous color wanting on the ter- 

 minal portion of the four outer primaries. The primaries show pale 

 rufous on the basal portion of the inner webs. All the secondaries and 

 tertials are broadly edged with pale rufous on the inner webs. Tail dark 

 brown ; all the tail-feathers, excepting the two middle ones, have nearly 

 the entire inner webs bright rufous, a narrow line of brown separating 

 the rufous from the shaft of the feather. Bill dark brown. The feet are 

 black. 



Length, 7; wing, 3.50; tail, 3.25; tarsus, .95; bill, .65. 



Habitat. Island of St. Kitts, West Indies. 



The underparts of this species are similar in marking and 

 general coloration to M. oberi, but the throat is more ashy and 

 lighter, and the yellow of the belly is paler. The back and 

 head oi M. berlepschii are darker, and the bird is smaller. 



♦Dedicated to Graf Hans von Berlepsch of Germany. 



