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2. U 1HIBITING A “ GUNDLACHI 
1 Morph nan urubitinga Cuvier”, Lembeye, Avea do Cuba, 1850, 14, pi. iii, fig. 3.— 
March, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phi lad. 1803, 3 (Jamaica). 
Hypomorphnus gundlachi Cab axis, Journ. fiir Om. 1854, pi. lxxx.— Brewer, Pr. Boston 
Soc. N. H. vii, 1800, p. — (Cuba).— ? Finsch, P. Z. S. 1870, 554 (Trinidad).— 
Gundl. Journ. fur Orn. 1871, 305. 
? “Aslur unicinclus” Leot. Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 44. 
Urubitinga anthracina (part) Siiarpe, Cat. Acc. Brit. Mas. 1874, 215. 
Hcil).— Cuba. (Also Jamaica and Trinidad?). 
Tliis bird lias been referred by Mr. Sharpe to TJ. anthracina , but we 
think without sufficient reason for so doing. It seems to be really a good 
species, but quite nearly related to the continental one. According to 
Dr. Finsch ( l . c.) “the whole plumage is dark brownish-black; the 
feathers on the upper part of the interscapulium are rufous at the base ; 
the upper and under tail-coverts are margined narrowly with white; 
the tail has a broad white cross-band, above this is another much nar¬ 
rower and not quite complete, a third, still narrower, and ill-defined, is 
placed at the base and hidden by the tail-coverts ; the tail-feathers are 
tipped with white ; the under surface of the wings shows a white space 
formed by the white basal third of the first four primaries, but this white 
is speckled very minutely with grayish-black, as in H. antliracinus; the 
secondaries bear in the middle portion of the inner web six or seven 
cross-bands of pale rufous-brown, somewhat ill-defined, and mixed and 
washed with dark brown, giving a somewhat marmorated appearance.” 
He adds that it is “closely related to JL anthracinus Liclit., hut may he 
easily distinguished by the two white bands on the base of the tail, 
besides the white middle cross-band.” 
The difference in the markings of the tail are quite sufficient to sepa¬ 
rate this bird from TJ. anthracina , at least as a geographical race, since 
of the very numerous individuals we have examined not one had any 
white bands across the tail anterior to the middle zone, other than faint 
indications, usually on the inner webs, in a very few exceptional cases. 
It seems, however, to be scarcely distinct specifically, but the descrip¬ 
tions are hardly concise enough to settle the question. 
