BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



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Genus: CONTOPUS. Cabanis. 

 CO.VTOPUS: CABAXIS, "JOURN. FUR ORXITH., III., Nov. 1855, 479." 



CONTOPUS HISPANIOLENSIS. {Bryant.) 



Tyrammla carribcea var. hispaniolensis. Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. 



Nat. Hist., XI. p. 91 (1866). 

 Contopus frazeri. Cory, Bull. Nutt. On. Club, VIII. p. 94 (1883). 

 Sayornis dominicensis. Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, VIII. p. 95 



(1883). 



Sp. Char., Male. — General plumage, grayish olive; feathers of 

 the crown, dark brown edged with olive ; throat ashy, becoming 

 olive on the sides of the breast and yellowish brown on the 

 abdomen and crissum ; wing coverts, pale at the tips, forming two 

 very dull wing bands ; secondaries, very narrowly edged with pale 

 brownish white ; tail, brown ; under wing coverts, pale yellowish 

 brown. 



The sexes are similar. 



Length 5.50; wing 3; tail 2.70; tarsus .58; bill .52. 



In a large collection of skins received from San Domingo, I 

 found two Flycatchers which were unknown to me. They differed 

 so much in size and general appearance that I not only considered 

 them to be distinct species, but placed them in separate genera. 

 The generic differences between a small Sayornis and a large 

 Contopus are not great, but the difference between the specimens 

 in question was so marked that I had no doubt regarding them 

 until I received a series of thirty-four specimens which intergraded 



