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 Description of two Birds from the Bahama Islands, 



HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED. By HeNRY BrYANT, M. D. 



Pitangus bahamensis. 



Syn. Tyrannus caudifasciatus, Bry. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 Vol. vii., p. 108. 



Dimensions. (Adult d'.) Length, .203.* Length of wing, from 

 flexum, .107 ; tail', .081 ; first primary .014 shorter than the third, 

 which is the longest ; second and fourth equal, and .002 short- 

 er than third. Tail nearly square, the outer feathers .004 shorter 

 than the central ones. 



Color. Bill, dark horn, nearly black on the upper, and slightly 

 lighter on the lower mandible. Upper part and sides of head, 

 including the eyelids and ear-coverts, and extending on to the nape, 

 dark-brown with a very faint tinge of olive ; the forehead and lores 

 ashy and a concealed spot of bright orange-yellow on the vertex. 

 Hind neck, scapulars, back rump, and upper tail-coverts, ashy, with 

 an olive tinge, scarcely to be seen on the the neck, and with the mar- 

 gins of the tail-coverts dull ferruginous. Tail above, dark, slightly 

 purplish-brown, with the tips of all the feathers lighter. Those of the 

 central ones nearly white, and the outer web of the outer feathers 

 pale olive-brown. Wings wood-brown, with the margins of the outer 

 webs of all the quills, and of the greater and middle coverts lighter ; 

 very slightly so on the first primary and narrow portions of the outer 

 one, and very conspicuously so on the greater coverts, secondaries, 

 and tertiaries, where they are quite white. Throat soiled white ° 

 Fore neck and breast, pale ashy. Abdomen, flanks, crissum, and 

 tibise, pale yellow, shaded superiorly into the ashy of the breast. 

 Tail beneath, wood-brown, with the tips of the feathers lighter, and 

 the outer web of the outer feathers pale olive-brown. There is a con- 

 cealed white bar at the base, formed by a spot on the inner webs of 

 all the feathers, largest on the outer one, of which it occupies nearly 

 two-fifths of the length. Under surface of wing, light wood-brown, 

 with the outer webs of all the quills broadly margined with whitish, 

 extending about half the length from the base of the first, and farther 

 on the other, so as on this to occupy nearly the whole length. Ax- 

 illaries and under-wing coverts, pale yellow, with the centre of 

 some of the coverts, principally those of the greater ones, brown. 

 Tarsi, toes, and claws, black. 



It is readily distinguished from P. caudifasciatus by the yellow of 

 the crissum and abdomen. 



* The measurements are in parts of a metre. 



