354 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
5. Blacicus brunnetcapillus. 
Blacicus Blancot, Lawr., nec Gundlach. 
Mate. The plumage above is of a clear olive-brown, assuming 
an ochreous cast on the rump; the crown is of a much darker 
brown, forming a decided cap; tail and quill-feathers brownish- 
black; the tertials are edged with very pale fulvous; the throat is 
gray with just a tinge of fulvous on the lower part; middle of 
breast, abdomen, and under wing-coverts reddish-ochreous, under 
tail-coverts of the same color, but paler; sides of the breast oliva- 
ceous ; upper mandible black, the under pale yellowish-white ; tarsi 
and toes brownish-black. 
Length (fresh), 5% inches ; wings, 24; tail, 28; tarsus, $. 
Habitat, Dominica. Mr. Ober says: “ Everywhere abundant in 
the ravines and dark valleys of the mountains.” 
Type in National Museum, Washington. 
REMARKS. In “A Provisional List of the Birds of Dominica,” 
published in ‘ Forest and Stream,’ December 6, 1877, this bird was 
put as Blacicus Blancot, Gundlach. Wishing to make a comparison 
with the type, I desired Dr. Gundlach to loan it to me for that pur- 
pose, with which request he kindly complied. The specimen was 
received quite recently, and I found that, though closely allied, the 
two birds are quite distinct. 
B*Blancoi is from Porto Rico; the specimen sent is mounted, 
and is of somewhat smaller dimensions than the bird from Domin- 
ica; the wing measures 28 inches ; the tail, 24; the tarsus, %. The 
crown is olive-brown, which color gradually merges into the greenish- 
olive of the back and rump. In the new species the crown is deep 
brown, and the upper plumage olive-brown ; it also differs in having 
the throat gray, which in the other is light fulvous ; the color of the 
abdomen is rather paler than it is in B. Blancoi. 
In another specimen of the new species, a female, “in young of 
the year plumage,” the feathers of the wings and back are strongly 
marked with rufous, yet the upper plumage is as decidedly brown as 
in the adult, and the throat gray. 
6. Strix flammea, var. nigrescens. 
[Dominica Catalogue, p. 64.] 
