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brown, forming an irregular narroAv band; tbe throat unfortunately is soiled 

 with blood, but as well as I can judge, it has stripes colored like the breast, 

 and the feathers edged with whitish; the thighs are dull fulvous; the bill 

 is large and strong, the upper mandible is black, the under also, but showing a 

 brownish tinge ; tarsi and toes dark brown. 



Length (fresh), 9\ in.; wing, 4J ; tail, oi; tarsus, li ; bill from front, #. 



Type in National Museum, Washington. 



Remarks. There is but one specimen in the collection ; in 

 the section {Planesticus) which this species comes under, the 

 sexes do not differ. 



In the distribution of colors on the under plumage, it is 

 much like T. albiveniris, but the color of the breast and sides 

 is darker, and the upper plumage is of a much deeper and 

 richer brown. The strong black bill is a striking feature. 



Mr. Ober says: '' Not abundant, obtained in Rutland Yale, 

 January 25th, 1878." 



2. Myiadestcs sibilans. 



The upper plumage is black ; the front, lores, and sides of the head for a 

 short distance under the eye, are intense black ; the crown, occiput, hind neck 

 and ear-coverts are deep black; the iipper part of the back is not quite so deep 

 in color, as it has a slight smoky tinge ; the lower part of the back, rump, and 

 upper tail-coverts, have a wash of ditll olivaceous, the latter terminate with 

 black; the ear-coverts have their shafts narrowly streaked with w r hite, less 

 striking than in M. genibarbU ; the lower eye-lid is pure white ; the chin and 

 the anterior part of the rictal stripe are white, the posterior part of the latter is 

 cinnamon-red ; a very distinct black moustachial line starts from the under man- 

 dible, and joins the black of the side of the neck, separating the rictal stripe 

 from the bright cinnamon-red color of the throat ; the breast and upper part 

 of the abdomen are of a clear plumbeous gray; the middle and lower part of the 

 abdomen and the under tail coverts, arc, of a rather paler cinnamon-red than 

 the throat ; the thighs are blackish plumbeous, some of the feathers ending 

 with light red ; the quills are black, the edge of the wing and ba ses of the quill- 

 feathers are white ; the tail feathers, except the outer two, are brownish slate 

 color, marked transversely w r ith black bars, which are not very conspicuous ; 

 the first lateral feather has the inner web grayish- white, with a blackish diago- 

 nal mark at tbe base, the outer web is black for one quarter of its length from 

 the base, the remaining part of a dusky ash color ; the second feather i6 

 blackish, except that it has for half its length, on the inner web, an elongated 

 white mark along the shaft, widening out to the end; the bm is black; tarsi 

 and toes very pale yellow, claws black ; "iris bright hazel." 



Length (fresh), H in.; wing, 3j ; tail, 3 ; tarsus, 1. 



The sexe6 do not differ in plumage. 



