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BIRDS OF THE BAHAMA ISLANDS. 
sides of the breast ; wings, brown ; secondaries and coverts edged 
with dull white ; under wing-coverts, pale yellow ; tail, brown ; 
feathers faintly tipped and edged with dull white ; upper tail-coverts 
edged with pale rufous. 
Length 8.50, wing 4.75, tail 3.75, tarsus .48, bill 1, broad and 
stout. 
This Flycatcher is an abundant summer visitant, and perhaps a 
resident. After May 15, we found it common on all the islands 
south of New Providence. Never having found its nest, I am 
unable to state anything .regarding its breeding habits. Its food 
consists principally of insects of different species, which it pursues 
and catches with great dexterity. 
MIARCHUS STOLIDUS VAR. LEUCAYSIENSIS. ( Gosse .) Bryant. 
Rufous-tailed Flycatcher. 
Winter Plumage , Male . — Above, brownish olive, becoming darker 
upon the head, and shading into rufous on the rump ; under parts, 
ashy white, shading into yellowish upon the abdomen and crissum ; 
wings, dark brown, the coverts tipped and edged with dull white, 
forming two wing-bands ; the basal half of the outer webs of the 
primaries, except the first two, edged with rufous, some of the sec- 
ondaries edged with white ; under wing-coverts, pale yellowish white ; 
tail, dark brown, the feathers bordered with rufous upon the inner 
