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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



FAMILY 



TYRANNID^E. 



Subfamily, ELAININ^. 

 Genus: PITANGUS. Swainson. 



PITANGUS: SWAINSON, ZOOL. JOURN, III. p. 165, 1S2S. 



PITANGUS GABBII. 



Pitangus gabbii. Lawr., Ann. N. Y. Lyc. Nat. Hist., XI. p. 2S8 

 (1876). — Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VI. p. 153 (1881). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Top of the head and cheeks, dark brown, 

 the feathers concealing a patch of bright orange yellow ; back, 

 brown, lighter than the head and becoming still lighter towards 

 the rump ; wings and tail, brown ; the primaries heavily edged 

 with rufous on the outer edge; some of the secondaries showing 

 pale white on the edges; wing coverts and tail-feathers showing 

 rufous edgings ; inner webs of primaries and secondaries and some 

 of the under wing coverts edged with yellowish white, giving the 

 under surface of the closed wing a pale yellowish white color; 

 entire under surface, white ; bill and legs, black. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length 7.50; wing 4; tail 3.35; tarsus .85; bill .85. 

 A resident species, not uncommon in the interior. 



