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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1852 Excerpt: ...piceo varius; caput apud antennas nigricans, facie flava; antennœ graciles, thoracis longitudine, piceo annulatœ et terminatœ; prothorax piceo quadrivittatus; abdomen piceum, lateribus testaceo maculatis; pedes longi, graciles, tibiis apice piceis; alœ limpidœ, ampiœ, non acuminatœ, anticœ apice signo ovato fusco bifasciatœ. Testaceous, very slender: head blackish around the base of the antennœ; face yellow, shining; vertex pitchy behind, and with a slender pitchy band in front: antennœ testaceous, slender, as long as the thorax; joints pitchy towards the base; club pitchy: prothorax nearly linear, a little longer than broad, with four imperfect pitchy stripes: dorsal segments of the mesothorax and of the metathorax pitchy, with testaceous borders and with some testaceous marks on their disks: abdomen pitchy, much shorter than the wings; segments testaceous towards the base on each side: legs pale testaceous, long and slender; tips of the tibia e pitchy: wings limpid, ample, very iridescent, not pointed; stigma whitish, small in the hind-wings; veins white with black bands, ciliated; subcostal areolets simple, their veins not forked between the base and the stigma; gradate veinlets near the tip and forks of the marginal veinlets at the tip of the wing clouded with pale brown, which forms an irregular and imperfect transverse oval figure on the wing: hindwings very little narrower and shorter than the fore-wings, with two pale brown marks on the forks of the marginal veinlets, one near the tip, the other near the hind border at three fourths of the length. Length of the body 12 lines; of the wings 30 lines. a. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 95. Myrmeleon Nefandus. Testaceus; caput ferrugineo ...

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This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...olive-brown 5. blancoi, p. 243. I crown deep brown 6. brunneicapillus, p. 243. c. Belly deep rufous 7. latirostris, p. 244. B. Bill longer, narrower; belly sulphur-yellow 8. barbirostris, p. 244. Refer also to Bl. martinicensis, Cory, Ank, 1887, p. 96, from Martinique, allied to B. brunneicapillus. VOL. XIV. B 1. Blacicus bahamensis. Empidonax bahamensis, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. N. H. vii. p. 109 (1861). Contopus caribaeus, var. bahamensis, Baird, Brew. et Ridgw. N. A. B. p. ii. p. 352. Contopus bahamensis, Cory, Birds of Bahamas, p. 101; Ridgw. Man. N. A. B. p. 339. Above mouse-brown; cap rather darker; wings and tail blackish, wing-coverts and external secondaries slightly edged with whitish: beneath dirty greyish white, slightly tinged with yellowish on the breast and belly; under wing-coverts pale ochraceous; upper mandible dark, lower paler; feet black: whole length 55 inches, wing 29, tail 2.6. Female similar, but rather smaller. Hab. Bahama Islands. In this species, which seems to me to belong strictly to Blacicus, there is no tinge of ochraceous colour below, except on the under wing-coverts. a,b. J2 Nassau, Bahamas (Cory). Sclater Coll. 2. Blacicus caribœus. Muscipeta caribaea, d' Orb. in La Sagra's Cuba, Aves, p. 77 (1839); Lembege, Ae. de Cuba, p. 129. Muscicapa caribœa, Gundl. Boston Journ. N. H. vi. p. 316. Blacicus caribaeus, Cob. J.f. O. I850, p. 486 (Cuba); Gundl. J.f. O. 1861, p. 328 et 1872, p. 426. Contopus caribseus, Baird, Brew. et Ridaw. Лт. A. B. ii. p. 351; Ridgw. Man. N. A. B. p. 339. Above dark grey, with a slight olivaceous tinge on the back; wings and tail blackish, with slight lighter edgings to tho wingcoverts and external secondaries: beneath light greyish, with a strong ochraceous...

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