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coverts instead of being nearly unicolor, are conspicuously streaked 

 with whitish. The rufous of throat extends farther down, that of 

 belly and flanks farther forwards, reducing the plumbeous of under 

 parts very materially, and confining it mainly to the breast. The 

 chin is whitish for a considerably greater extent. The axillars are 

 pale rufous, instead of ashy. The size is less ; the form much the 

 same. 



The present species approaches most closely to the description of 

 M. genibarbi8\ by Swainson, but differs apparently iu some appre- 

 ciable characters. The black streak on each side the throat, in 

 genibarbis, cuts ofiF a stripe wiiich is continuously white to the end 

 of ear coverts, instead of becoming mixed with dusky on the middle 

 third av-d changing then to rufous. The rufous of genibarbis does 

 not extend as far forward, showing much less on the belly and flanks. 

 In the uncertainty, however, as to whether Swainson described his 

 specimen accurately or not, I will, for the present, make use of bis 

 name. 



The 3L armillatus, of Vieillot, appears to difl'er in much greater 

 extent of whitish on chin and side of lower jaw, in absence of the 

 dusky mandibular stripe and white streakd on the ears, and in the 

 yellow band on the tibia. It is possible, however, that the two may 

 be identical ; but the difi'erences of M. solilarius, as a separate 

 species, is beyond a doubt. 



' Myiadestes genibarbis, Sw. Jard. Nat. Librarj, XIII. Flycatchers, 1838, 

 134, pi. xiii. 



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" Above clear cinereous ; all under parts not red are of same color, lir.t 

 mnch paler; a whitish maxillary strijje, bordered by a black line (below), 

 and the ears are black, striped with white lines. External edges of the wing 

 feathers gray, except terminal half of primaries and a black baud at basal 

 half of secondaries ; lateral tail feathers black, having ends of inner webs 

 more or less white, the outermost almost entirely white, with outer edges of 

 that and the next gray ; the middle pair wholly cinereous. Under plumage 

 from chin to throat bright rufous ; which color descends a little on the breast, 

 and is borderod on each side the chin by the black maxillary stripe resembling 

 a whisker, already mentioned ; breast and sides cinereous, nearly of as dark 

 a tint as the back ; as this color descends, however, it becomes paler and 

 blends into the rufous of the belly, vent, and under tail coverts ; bill deep 

 black ; legs very pale. Total length about 7.00; bill along gape, .70, frout, 

 .40; wings, 3.40, tail beyond, 2.00, from base, 3.00 ; tarsus, .80." 



The locality of the specimen described is a matter of uncertainty— Swain- 

 son supposing, from its apparent affinities, that might have come from Africa. 

 It is evidently, however, West Indian. 



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