60 TYRANNID. 
at the end of the nasal fossa, the rictal bristles moderately developed ; the tarsi and toes 
rather short. The wings are rather long, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quills longest, lst=6th ; 
tail moderate and nearly square, > % wing, < 4 tarsus. 
1. Pyrocephalus rubineus. 
Muscicapa rubinus, Bodd. Tabl. Pl. Enl. p. 42°. 
Pyrocephalus rubineus, Cass. B. Cal. and Texas, p. 127, t. 18°; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. 
p- 67°; Scl. P. Z.S. 1856, p. 2964; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p.211’; Baird, Mex. Bound. 
Surv., Zool., Birds, p.9°; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 475"; Scl. & Huds. Arg. Orn. i. p. 152°. 
Pyrocephalus mexicanus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 45°, 366°, 1864, p. 176"; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
. Xiv. p. 213; Moore, P. Z.S. 1859, p. 56°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 399 '*; Sumichrast, 
Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 557”; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 201°. 
Pyrocephalus rubineus var. mexicanus, Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 38777; Lawr. Bull. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 27°; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 287. 
Pyrocephalus rubineus mexicanus, Sennett, Bull. U. 8. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 34”, v. p. 409; Coues, 
Key N. Am. B. (ed. 2), p. 444%"; Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 154”; Ridgw. Man. 
N. Am. B. p. 345”. 
Muscicapa coronata, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 932"; Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vig. p. 2 (ef. J. f. Orn. 
1863, p. 58”). 
Tyrannula coronata, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 367”; Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 112”. 
Pyrocephalus obscurus, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1864, p. 176. 
Supra obscure fuscus; alis nigricantibus, extrorsum pallide fusco vix limbatis; cauda quoque nigricante ; 
rectrica externe in pogonio externo pallide fusca; loris et regione parotica dorso concoloribus ; capite 
summo et corpore subtus lete coccineis ; subalaribus fuscis: rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. tota 5:5, 
alee 3:3, caudee 2°3, tarsi 0-7, rostri a rictu 0°65. 
9. Supra cinerea ; capite summo ad frontem pallidiore; alis et cauda nigricantibus, illis sordide albo limbatis : 
subtus alba ; pectore fusco guttato; abdomine aurantiaco. (Deser. maris et feminw ex Monterey, Nuevo 
Leon, Mexico. Mus, nostr.) 
Hab. NortH America’, Southern California, Arizona, and Southern Texas 7 23,— 
Mexico’ (Bullock *°), Topochico in Nuevo Leon (F. B. Armstrong), Realito in 
Sonora (W. Lloyd), Mazatlan (Forrer, Grayson 19), Plains of Colima (Xantus !), 
Amula, Chilpancingo, and ‘Tierra Colorada in Guerrero (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Jerez 
in Zacatecas, Calvillo, Aguas Calientes, Valle del Maiz, and Tampico (Richardson), 
Mexico city (White 1!°5), San Martin, Texmelucan, Tlaxcala, J alapa (Ferrari- 
Perez), Cordova (Sallé), Jalapa (Sallé, de Oca ©, M. Trujillo), Cofre de Perote 
(MZ. Trujillo), Orizaba, Morelia (F. D. G.), Oaxaca (Fenochio), Sta. Efigenia and 
Tehuantepec city (Sumichrast 18), Northern Yucatan (G. F. Gaumer), Merida 
(Schott 1°), Cozumel I. (G. F. Gaumer); British Honpvuras, Orange Walk (G. F. 
Gaumer), Belize (Blancaneuux) ; GUATEMALA (Constancia 4), Pine Ridge of Poctum, 
Santa Ana (0. 5’), Peten (Leyland *).—Sourn America generally from Colombia 
to Guiana and Argentine Republic 5 8. 
On comparing freshly-moulted specimens from Northern Mexico with others from 
South America in similar condition we find no grounds whatever for recognizing more 
