184 MNIOTILTIDZA. 
C. Sexus similes; statura major; ale rotundate ; rostrum magis elongatum, robustius 
cauda nigricans, rectricibus omnibus plus minusve albo terminatis. 
6. Setophaga lacrymosa. (Tab. XI. fig. 2.) 
Euthlypis lacrymosa, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 19°; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 291°; 1859, p. 863°; Scl. & 
Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 274*; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.i. p.546’°; Lawr. Mem. Bost. 
Soc. N. H.i. p. 270°. 
Basileuterus lacrymosus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 814". 
Setophaga lacrymosa, Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 263°; Salv. Ibis, 1878, p. 320°. 
Supra schistacea vix olivaceo tincta; fronte et superciliis, loris et regione suboculari nigris, macula lorali et 
ciliis albis; pileo medio sulphureo; subtus ochraceo-flava, gula et abdomine medio flavescentioribus ; 
hypochondriis olivaceis ; crisso flavescenti-albo; rectricibus omnibus albo terminatis ; rostro nigro, pedibus 
corylinis. Long. tota 6-0, ale 3-0, caudee 2'8, tarsi 0°95, rostri a rictu0°7. (Descr. maris ex Alotenango, 
Guatemala, Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico’, Mazatlan (Grayson °), Lagunas (us. Berol.'), temperate region of Vera 
Cruz (Sumichrast°), Cordova (Sallé?), Jalapa (de Oca*), Santa Efigenia, Tehuan- 
tepec (Sumichrast); GuaTEMALA, Alotenango‘ and Savana Grande’ (0. S. & F. D. G.). 
This peculiar and well-marked species, when first described by Dr. Cabanis 1, was 
made the type of a new genus, Huthlypis, a position Bonaparte held that it ought perhaps 
to occupy’. Prof. Baird, who paid considerable attention to the question when com- 
piling his ‘ Review of American Birds,’ however, only granted Huthlypis subgeneric 
rank, calling the present bird Setophaga lacrymosa. This seems to be its proper place®, 
The bird is larger than any other species of Setophaga, and has a longer, somewhat 
stronger, bill, in which respect it approaches Basileuterus. In having white tips to the 
tail-feathers, which it displays in true Setophagian fashion, it seems rightly placed in 
Setophagqa. 
S. lacrymosa was first described from a specimen in the Berlin Museum, obtained 
most probably by Deppe at Lagunas in Mexico, in which country it has since been 
obtained by several collectors. Grayson, who found it at Mazatlan ®, describes it as unlike 
the Flycatchers in its habits, never remaining quiet a moment, but constantly hopping 
about over old logs, on the ground, in the brush and low branches of trees, with its tail 
spread, its actions in this respect being not unlike those of Granatellus. He speaks of 
it as a common species near Mazatlan, where he only met with it in the dark woods 
near the river. All his specimens were procured in the winter months. Prof. Sumichrast® 
includes it amongst the inhabitants of the temperate region of Vera Cruz, at elevations 
lying between 1600 and 3300 feet. He says it isa rare bird, but that he obtained several 
specimens in the woods covering the calcareous rocks of Penuela, near Cordova, at an 
elevation of about 2300 feet above the sea. He describes its habits as different from 
those of Setophaga, walking rather than hopping, and when on the ground to be 
