38 TYRANNIDA. 
Empidonaz atrirostris, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1871, p. 234°; of. Salv. Ibis, 1874, p. 316°. 
Muscicapa griseicollis, Licht. Mus. Ber. (apud Sclater) *°. 
Supra fuscus; dorso olivaceo vix tincto; pileo, alis et cauda nigricantibus, tectricibus alarum (ad apices), 
secundariis extrorsum et caud apice pallide fuscis: subtus ad medium pectus cinereus; abdomine et 
subalaribus pallide flavis : rostro et pedibus nigricantibus. Long. tota 5:5, ale 2°75, caudex 2°6, tarsi 0°7, 
rostri a rictu 0°55. (Descr. maris ex Punta Arenas, Costa Rica. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica, Punta Arenas (O. S.1),—CotomBia®?; Venezvewa >. 
A single male specimen shot by Salvin when in company with Captain J. M. Dow in 
the outskirts of the town of Punta Arenas in March 1863 is the only example that 
has yet been obtained of this species within our limits. On comparing the types of 
L. arenarum and Sublegatus glaber we find them not specifically different, so that this 
bird must be removed from Hainea and transferred to Sublegatus, its short stout bill 
and moderately developed bristles rendering it an abnormal member of Zlainea. 
The identification of these birds extends the range of Sublegatus arenarum to 
Colombia and Venezuela, Mr. Wyatt having found it in the former country %, and Mr. 
Goring in the latter, and skins of it also occur in the trade collections of Bogota. 
LEGATUS. 
Legatus, Sclater, P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 46; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 155 (type Tyrannus albicollis, 
Vieill.). 
This genus contains but one species, which is spread over nearly the whole of 
tropical America from the eastern slopes of the Cordillera of Southern Mexico to Para- 
guay and South Brazil. 
The character of the coloration of Z. albdicollis differs in many respects from that of 
the genera near which it is placed, and, though resembling Myiozetetes so far as the 
head is concerned, differs in having a striped breast and flanks. 
The bill is wide, the width at the gape being rather more than three quarters the length 
of the tomia; the culmen is gradually curved from the forehead; the nostrils are at 
the lower anterior edge of the nasal fossa, which is large and covered with membrane, 
the rictal and frontal bristles are short, leaving the nostril completely exposed ; the 
tarsi are short and covered with scutelle; the toes rather short, the outer and inner 
toes being nearly equal; the 2nd and 3rd quills are the longest, 8rd>I1st, lst=5th; 
tail moderate and slightly marginate, =3 wing, =4 tarsus. 
1. Legatus albicollis. 
Tyrannus albicollis, Vieill. N. Dict. d’Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 897. 
Legatus albicollis, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 472’, viii. p. 177°, ix. p. 112‘; Scl. & Salv. 
P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 859°; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 197°; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. 
p. 155”, 
