EMPIDOOHAKBS. 221 



Genus EMPIDOCHANES Sclater/' 



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

 Type E. fuscatus (Wied). 



Fig. 90. — Empidochanes 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 riotal 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: male 

 and female similar. ' 



Key to the Species. 



A. Throat, under tail-coverts, axillaries, and 



under wing-coverts yellowish white E. cabanisi, p. 221. 



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



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



495. Empidochanes cabanisi. 



Leotaud's Dusky Flycatcher. 



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

 Empidochanes olivus Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 297 * (Bartica Grove). 

 Empidochanes cabanisi Brabounie^<& 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 upper 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 



* I have been unable to find any quotation of this reference in 

 vol. xiv. of the ' Catalogue of Birds,'' nor can 1 trace any specimen from 

 Ba rtica Grove in the British Museum. 



