SAYORNIS. 63 
Ixtapalapa, S. Antonio Coapa, Chimalpa, and Coajimalpa, all in the neighbourhood 
of Mexico city / Ferrari-Perez), State of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast*), Jalapa (Sallé, de 
Oca ®), Chapulco (Sumichrast’, Ferrari-Perez ®), Puebla and Atlixco (PF. D. G.). 
Sayornis saya has a wide range over Central Mexico, occurring as far south as Jalapa 
in the State of Vera Cruz, and Chapulco in the State of Puebla. It does not, however, 
appear to leave the plateau, as nowhere in the south does it approach the coast. To 
what extent this species is migratory does not seem to be clearly stated. Sumichrast 
was uncertain as to its movements in the State of Vera Cruz, and other Mexican 
records are silent on the subject *. Within the States it would appear to be migratory 
so far as regards the northern and upland portions of its range. Thus Dr. Coues says 
it is a summer resident at Fort Whipple in Arizona, but that it winters in the Colorado 
valley and in the southern parts of Arizona. Dr. Cooper speaks of it as chiefly a 
winter visitor to the southern and western parts of California. It certainly winters in 
the frontier States of Mexico, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas, as we have 
specimens from several places obtained between January and March. In summer it 
visits the plains of the interior as far north as the 60th parallel. 
Mr. Ridgway describes a nest, placed on a shelf inside a smail cave on the shore of 
an island in Lake Pyramid, as a globular mass consisting chiefly of spiders’ webs mixed 
with fine vegetable fibres of various kinds; the cavity was shallow and lined with the 
down of ducks. ‘The eggs are uniform chalky white. 
The specific name saya proposed by Bonaparte in 1825 and adopted by North- 
American writers seems to us to be the right title for this species. Mr. Sclater 
employs Swainson’s name pallida, though dating from 1827. 
2. Sayornis phebe. 4 
Muscicapa fusca, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 931 (nec Mill. nec Bodd.)". 
Sayornis fuscus, Baird, Mex. Bound. Surv., Zool., Birds, p. 8°; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 473°; 
Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 557°; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. u. 
p- 343°. . 
Myiarchus fuscus, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 366°. 
Muscicapa phebe, Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 489 (ex Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. no. 275) 
Sayornis phoebe, Stejn. Auk, 1885, p. 51°; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 336°. 
Empidias fuscus, Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. p. 69"; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 264". 
Supra olivaceo-fusca ; capite summo nigricante ; alis et cauda quoque nigricantibus, illarum secondariis et 
tectricibus majoribus, hujus rectrice extima utrinque in pogonio externo albido limbatis : subtus lactescenti- 
alba; mento et pectoris lateribus fusco notatis: rostro et pedibus nigris. Long. tota 6:0, ale 3:4, 
caudee 3:0, tarsi 0°7, rostri a rictu 0-75. (Descr. femine ex Orizaba, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
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Had. Nortu America, Eastern States !!, Texas ?.—Mexico, Nuevo Laredo in Tamau- 
lipas (Armstrong), Tamaulipas (Couch *), Tampico (Richardson), Jalapa (de Oca ®, 
* In Prof. Ferrari-Perez’s collection we find that specimens were obtained in and about the valley of Mexico 
from the end of December to the 11th April. 
