from the West Indies. 583 



white on the inner webs strongly washed with yellow, tips 

 white, washed with pale rufous. Wing-coverts and second- 

 aries edged with whitish ; quills brown. Under parts white, 

 washed with yellow on the flanks and abdomen; crissum, 

 under tail-coverts, edge of wing, under wing-coverts, and 

 axillaries sulphur-yellow. 



A. freshly -moulted male has the mantle olive, and the long 

 secondaries broadly edged with yellowish white. 



Total length 8-20 in., wing 4'30, culm. 1-30, tail 3'50, 

 tarsus *90. 



The female is similar but slightly smaller. An immature 

 male has a small crest of dull gold ; crown dull brown, 

 indistinctly freckled with lighter brown; mantle greyish 

 brown, slightly tinged with olive; wing-coverts and upper 

 tail-coverts edged with rufous ; the two central pairs of 

 rectrices tipped with pale rufous ; secondaries edged with 

 dull white. Under parts white ; under wing-coverts, thighs, 

 and crissum pale sulphur-yellow. 



A slightly older bird has some new olive feathers appearing 

 on the mantle and the vertical crest slightly yellower. 



Pitangus caymanensis may easily be distinguished from 

 P. caudifasciatus by the following characters : — It is larger, 

 and olive on the mantle; has a duller crown, and has the 

 abdomen, crissum, under wing-coverts, and basal band of 

 the tail yellower. I did not find this species at all numerous 

 on Grand Cayman. The individuals that I saw were usually 

 near the mangrove-swamps. It has quite the habits of a 

 Tyrant-bird, sitting on an exposed branch and watching for 

 insects. 



Myiarchus denigratus Cory. 



Myiarchus denigratus Cory, Auk, iii. p. 500 ; id. B. W. I. 

 p. 293. 



I met with only four examples of this bird, which is 

 peculiar to Grand Cayman ; I unfortunately lost one of 

 them. There was previously only one specimen in the 

 British Museum. In its habits it seems to resemble the 

 other species of Myiarchus. 



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