EMPIDOCHANES. 221 



Genus EMPIDOCHANES Sclater. 



Mmpidoclianes Sclater, Catalogue of American Birds, p. 228, 1862. 

 Type E. fuscatus (Wied). 



Fig. 90. — Emjiidochanes fuscatus. 



In this genus the bill is entirely black and depressed, the width 

 at the base is about two-thirds the length of the exposed culmen, 

 the upper mandible is sharply hooked, and the rictal bristles well 

 developed. The wing is rounded, the third, fourth, and fifth 

 primaries longest, the second about equal to the sixth and the 

 first rather shorter than the eighth. The tail is rounded at the 

 tip and about equal in length to the wing, and the tarsus about 

 one-third longer than the exposed culmen. Coloration : mule 

 and female similar. 



Key to the Species. 



A. Throat, under tail-covei'ts, axillaries, and 



under A\4ng-coverts yellowish white E. cabanisi, j). 221. 



B. Throat dusky; under tail-coverts, axillaries, 



and under wing-coverts cinnamon IE. salvini, p. 222. 



495. Empidocliaiies cabanisi. 



Leotaud's Dusky Flycatcher. 



Empidonax cabanisi Leotaud, Ois. Trinid. p. 232, 1866. 

 Empidochanes oUvus Salvin, Ibis, 1SS5, p. 297* (Bartica Grove). 

 Eiiipidochanes cabanisi Brabourne.& Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 299, 

 no. 3050, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour above olive-brown including the 

 head, sides of face, back, scapulars, and lesser u|)per wing- 

 coverts ; median and greater upper wing-coverts dark brown 

 tipped with fulvous which forms a double wing-bar ; bastard- 

 wing, primary-coverts, and quills dark brown with whitish 



* 1 have been unable t(j Ihul any quutation of this reference in 

 vol. xiv. of tlie 'Catalogue of Birds,' nor can I trace any specimen fron'i 

 Bartica (arove in the British Museum. 



