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dull olive-grayish tips to wing-coverts and paler (some- 
times nearly white) edges to tertials; chest and sides 
of breast olive grayish, the sides and flanks much 
tinged with same; chin and throat whitish, sometimes 
tinged with sulphur-yellow; belly pale sulphur-yellow; 
under wing-coverts dull buffy, tinged or mixed with 
olive-grayish ; length (skins) 5.30-5.50, wing 2.80-3.05, 
tail 2.60-2.75, exposed culmen .47-.50, tarsus .50-.55. 
Hab. Yucatan (including Cozumel) and southern 
Mexico (Cordova, etc.). 
C. brachytarsus Sct. Schott’s Wood Pewee.! 
@. Exposed culmen about twice as long as width of bill at nostrils. 
Colors much as in C. schottii, but grayer; length (skins) 5.25- 
5.70, wing 2.65-2.90, tail 2.40-2.70, exposed culmen .55-.60, 
width of bill at nostrils .25-.30, tarsus .60-.65. Hab. Ba- 
hamas. 
C. bahamensis Bryant. Bahaman Wood Pewee.? 
c’. Belly, under tail-coverts, and under wing-coverts light ochraceous. 
Otherwise in color much like C. brachytarsus, but bill shaped as 
in C, bahamensis ; length (skins) 5.60-6.00, wing 2.75-2.80, tail 
2.70-2.80. Hab. Cuba. 
C. caribaeus (D’Orz.). Cuban Wood Pewee.5 
Genus EMPIDONAX Cazanis. (Page 327, pl. XCIV., fig. 4.) 
Species. 
Common CHaractERs.—Above plain brownish, grayish, olive, or olive-greenish, 
the wings with two lighter bands (across tips of greater and middle coverts), the 
secondaries edged with the same color as the wing-bands, except toward base, there 
being always a more or less distinct dusky bar behind tips of greater coverts ; lower 
parts whitish, yellowish, or buffy, shaded with grayish, olive, or ochraceous across 
chest ; upper mandible black, or dark brown, lower mandible pale-colored ; legs and 
feet black. 
a, Lower parts whitish or sulphur-yellowish, shaded, more or less, across breast 
with grayish or olivaceous. 
&. Width of bill at nostrils decidedly greater than half the length of the ex- 
posed culmen. 
1 Empidonax brachytarsuse Scu., Ibis, 1859, 441. Contopus brachytarsue Scu., Cat. Am. B. 1862, 281. Con- 
topus echottii Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. 1869, 202. (Types of both compared, also additional specimens of 
C. schottii.) 
2 Empidonax bahamensis Bryant, Proc, Bost. Soc. N. H. vii. 1859, 109. Contopus bahamensis Cory, Bds. 
Bahama Is, 1880, 101. : a 
3 Muscipeta carbaea D’Ors, La Sagra’s Cuba, 1839, 77. Contopus caribeus B. B. & R, Hist, N. Am. B, ii. 
1874, 351. 
