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EEVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



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base of quills, visible internally as a yellowish-white bar across the wing, 

 externally as a fulvous brown bar followed by a blackish one, and again a 

 fulvous. In other words, the olive of upper parts is varied on the wings by- 

 having the outer webs of quills, except outer primaries, fulvous olive, crossed 

 near the base by a broad blackish bar. Central tail feathers like back ; others 

 blackish ;.o.utermost ashy for most of length, and like next, tipped with white. 

 Bill black ; the base below white. Legs flesh color ? 



(No. 25,911, % .) Total length, 7.50 ; wing, 3.55 ; tail, 3.80 ; graduation of 

 tail, .25 ; difference of 10th and longest quill, .66 ; exposed portion of 1st 

 primary, 1.00, of 2d, 2.15, of longest (5th) (measured from exposed base of 1st 

 primary), 2.60 ; length of bill from forehead, .56, from nostril, .31, along gape, 

 .70 ; tarsus, .82 ; middle toe and claw, .78, claw alone, .26 ; hind toe and claw, 

 .52, claw alone, .26. 



Locality. 



When 

 Collected. 



Eeceiyed from 



Collected by 



Cuba. 



Donna del Gate, 

 " [Cuba. 



Monte Libano, Cuba. 



Cuba. 



Dr. J Gundlach. 

 Chas. Wright. 



Sept. 24. 



Cab. Lawrence. 



myiadestes melanops. 



Myiadestes melanops, Salvis, P. Z. S. 1864, 580, pi. xxxv (Tucurrique, 

 Costa Eica). 



Eab. Costa Rica. 



(No. 30,501.) Wing moderately pointed; 1st quill about one-third the 

 longest ; 2d scarcely longer than 8th ; 4th and 5th longest. 



Above bluish-slate color ; rather lighter below ; middle of belly somewhat ■ 

 paler. Forehead, cheeks anterior to eyes, and chin black ; axillars whitish 

 at ends, the bases of the quills showing the usual patch on the inner face of 

 wing, which in this species is white ; externally it is ashy, scarcely appre- 

 ciable, and followed by the usual dusky bar. Quill- and tail-feathers black- 

 ish, the central of the latter scarcely more ashy, as is the case in the terminal 

 portion of the outer two feathers and the outer edges of the outermost ; both 

 obscurely tipped with whitish. Bill reddish-yellow; legs and feet clear 

 yellow. 



(No. 30,501.) Total length, 7.25; wing, 3.60; tail, 3.45, graduation, 40, 

 emargiuation slight; difference of 10th and longest quills, .70; exposed 

 portion of 1st primary, .90, of 2d, 2.30, of longest (4th) (measured from ex- 

 posed base of 1st primary), 2.75 ; length of bill from forehead, .60, from 

 nostril, .30, along gape, .70 ; tarsus, .81 ; middle toe and claw, .79, claw alone, 

 .24; hind toe and claw, .58, claw alone, .28. 



In some specimens the pure clear bluisli-plumbeous of back is 

 faintly glossed behind with olive brown. Young birds have the bill 



