332 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Inner webs of loctrices almost entirely rufous to near the extreme 

 tip, the enil of the ^veb, however, being brownish-dusky like the 

 outer. 



Wing, 3.35-4.10; tail, 3.35 -4.10; eulnien, .80-1,00; tarsus, 



.80 -.91. llah. VVostorn Province of United States, and 



Western Mexieo (grading into var. irritabilis in Teluiantepec, 



and in winter migrating into Eastern Mexieo) var. c i n e r ascens. 



4. M. stoliduB Colors essentially nearly as the varieties of lU. crinilus. 



Primaries more or less distinctly edged with rufous, especially on inner 



quills; rectrices with inner webs more or less edged with rufous (found 



only terminally in var. atitil/ariim). Wing-coverts broadly tipped with dull 



ashy-whitish. Above brownish-slaty, with an olivaceous cast, the pileum 



more or less appreciably darker. Beneath ashy-white, without distinct 



yellow (except in var. utolidiis, in which the abdomen, etc., are pale 



siilplnny yellow). Tail varying in shape from slightly rounded to distinctly 



emarginated. Ilab. West Indies. 



Beneath entirely white, only faintly, or hardly appreciably, tinged 

 with sulplmr-yellow on the flanks. 



T'.iiier web of rectrices broadly edged with rufous for the whole 

 length. Crown scarcely darker than the back. Tail distinctly 

 emarginated. Wnig, 3.ir)-3.r)0; tail, 3.30-3. (iO; culmen, .80- 

 .9i); tarsus, .80-85. (Bahanian specimens the larger). Ilab. 



Bahamas and Cuba var. w /i ff J c .' 



Inner web of rectrices not edged with rufous except at extreme 

 tip, where sometimes also absent. Crown decideilly darker than 

 the back. Tail slightly rounded. Wing, 3.25- 3.50; tail, 3.20- 

 3.f)0 ; culmen, .85 - 95 ; tarsus, .85 - 90. Hab. Porto Rico. 



var. anf illarum.' 

 Beneath white only on throat and jugulum, the abdomen, etc., being 

 sulphur-yellow. 



Inner webs of rectrices more or less distinctly edged with rufous 

 for whole length. Pileum very much darker than the back. Wing, 

 3.35-3.50; tail, 3.35-3.U5; culmen, .90 - .95 ; tarsus, .80 -.85. 

 Tail faintly doubly-rounded. Hab. Hay ti, Jamaica, (and Yucatan ?) 



va.v. utolidiis? 

 B. Bill nnich depros.^olf, its depth only .aliout half' its width, in the middle 

 portion ; lateral outlines widely divergent basally ; terminal hook weak. 

 (.l/y(V«■(7l)^«.) 



5. M. tristis. Colors very variable, and amount of rufous exceedingly 

 diHerent in the diflerent races. Inner welis of rectrices seldom edged with 

 iiifons ; rufous sometimes entirely absent on both wings and tail, and some- 

 times th(^ whole wing and both wel)s of rectrices distinctly edged with it. 

 Above a.xhy-olive, usually with more or le.ss of a greenish cast, the pileum 



1 Miliarchm utolidns, var. ])ho'he (D'Oitn.), Coues. Tijraniiv.i plicebc, D'OiiB. Sagra's Cuba, 

 Ois. p. 84. Mi/mrchm stolidus, var. phahc, Coues, P. A. N. S. July, 1872, 78. (Sugrce., 

 GuNDl.. ; s/olidii, var. /ucai/sif.nsis, liiiV.VNi'K 



'■^ Mi/itirc/im s/iih'i/ii.i, var. anlilhrruin (Biivakt), Couks. Ti/ranniui (.Ui/iarcMls) antillaruvi, 

 BiiVANT, P. B. S. N. H. 180G, p. 2. Mijinrchus stolidus, var. aiUillarum, Coues, P. A. N. S. 

 July, 1872, 79. 



* MjliarcMis stolidus, var. stolidus (Oossk), CAnAN'li;. Myiohius sfolidu.i, finssi:. R. Jam. 

 p. 168. Miiiiircims s. Caiianis, J. fiir Orn. IS-Oo, 479. — Coi;k,s, 1". A. N. S. 1872, 77. (Stolidus 

 var. domiiiiccmis, Bryant.) 



