MYIADESTES. 



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" Bill blaokish ; a white spot on the sides of the throat, Siid at its origin 

 (the cliiu) immediately below the lower mandible (the two ooiitiiiuous) ; the 

 eye surrounded by the same color. Head, back, rump, two intermediate tail 

 feathers, and the breast of a grayish-slate, paler below. Wing- and tail-feathers 

 blackish, bordered externally by gray, the three lateral on each side of the 

 tail more or les.x white. Belly and hinder parts brownish-rufous ; a beautiful 

 yellow in form of a bracelet on thu feathers of lower part of leg ; feet brown. 

 Length, (i inches 3 lines." Viciltot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 69. 



" Young, before the first moult, grayish-ash above ; head brown with yel- 

 lovrish spots ; feathers of throat and hinder parts blackish at their extremity, 

 and yellowish elsewhere." Vieillot, Encyclop. Meih. II, 824. 



According to Vieillot this species is found in Martinique, whore 

 it dwells in the elevated regions, and on account of its remarkable 

 note is iinown as the " Musicien^^ or " Siffleur de la Montagiie." 



The differences between Vieillot's description and the Jamaican 

 bird usually called armillatus, have already been referred to. Vieil- 

 lot's figure represents the tail as more rounded ; the legs longer and 

 distinctly scutellate, which, however, may be an error of the plate. 





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Nyiadestes genibarbis. ' ' 



Myiadestes geniharbis, Sw. Jard. Nat. Llbr. XIII. Flycatchers, 1838, 

 134, pi. xiii. 



Ilab. Some one of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles? 



General appearance that of M. solitarius, of Jamaica. Whole upper parts 

 lead blue ; wings and tail marked as in the other species of its section. The 

 throat and upper part of jugulum, the crissum, anal region, belly, and 

 flanks are brownish- red or rufous. The breast is plumbeous, paler than the 

 back. A narrow, dusky or blackish line from the lower edge of the mandible 

 borders the rufous of throat, and cuts off a mandibular stripe, which i£ reddish- 

 white as far as the eye, but then becomes mixed with blackish, and passes 

 again as far as the end of cheeks into rufous like th» throat. The extreme 

 chiu is also reddish-white, though somewhat separated from that of side of 

 lower jaw by the dusky line mentioned. The ear coverts are blackish, each 

 with a central streak of whitish, sometimes tinged with reddish. A whitish 

 patch on under eyelid. The axillars are pale rusty, the tibia plumbeouf . 

 Legs yellow. Bill black. 



Total length, 7.00; wing, 3.40; tail, 3.'(0; exposed portion of let primary, 

 .81, of 2d, 2.12, of longest (^th) (measured from exposed base of Ist primary), 

 2.G0; length of bill from forehead, .55, from nostril, .25, along gape, .75; 

 tarsus, .86. 



This species, though in general, similar to M. solitariuH, is still 

 very appreciably different. Its most striking peculiarity is in the 

 dusky line each side the throat, cutting off above it a stripe, first 

 reddish-white, then nii.xed with dusky, and then rufous like the 

 ibroat, this color reaching to posterior end of ear coverts. The ear 



