92 TYRANNIDA. 
leaving again towards the end of September. It usually resorted to openings in the 
oak-forests, bushy ravines, and the fringes of wood along the streams. In its habits it 
resembles MM. crinitus in every way, building in old Woodpeckers’ holes and laying 
cream-coloured eggs marked and speckled with purplish-red dashes and blotches of 
neutral tint. 
In Guatemala we found this species in several places, but chiefly on the flank of the 
cordillera between the volcanos of Agua and Fuego amongst the groves of oaks which 
abound there. 
5. Myiarchus nuttingi. 
Mytarchus nuttingi, Ridgw. Pr. U. 8S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 390°; Pr. Biol. Soc. Wash. ii. p. 927; Man. 
N. Am. B. p. 384°; Nutting & Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 374‘, 893°; Scl. Cat. 
Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 250°. 
M. cinerascenti similis, sed rostro paulo majore, caude rectricibus lateralibus in pogonio interno usque ad rhachi- 
dem rufis. 
Hab. Mexico, Guanajuato, Tehuantepec, Chiapas (fide Ridgway) ; Nicaragua, Omotepe 
I.° and San Juan del Sur+ (Nutting); Costa Rica (Carmiol ®), La Palma (Nutting). 
We know very little of this bird, which was separated by Mr. Ridgway on Costa Rica 
specimens. It is closely allied to VW. magister, but is of rather smaller dimensions, 
though the bill is a little larger; the chief difference is in the tail, the inner web of the 
lateral rectrices being rufous to the shaft *. 
b". Rectrices omnes nigricantes haud rufo ornate. 
6. Myiarchus ferox. 
Muscicapa ferox, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 984°; Berl. Ibis, 1883, p. 189 *. 
Myiarchus ferox, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 143°; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 253%. 
Myiarchus panamensis, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. pp. 284°, 295°, ix. p. 1157; Scl. & Salv. 
P. Z. S. 1864, p. 860°; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 308°; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 199”. 
Myiarchus tyrannulus, Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1872, p. 71 (nec Mill.) *. 
Supra olivascenti-fuscus, capite obscuriore plumis medialiter fuscis; supracaudalibus brunneis; alis nigri- 
cantibus, extrorsum pallide fusco limbatis ; cauda nigricante: subtus usque ad pectus cinereus; abdomine 
et subalaribus sulphureis. (Descr. maris ex Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari similis. 
Hab. Panama, Calovevora (Arcé ©), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan®**), Paraiso (Hughes), 
* Myiarchus brachyurus (Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 334) is no doubt included in the references to MZ. nut- 
tingt given above, as it is based on one of Mr. Nutting’s Omotepe specimens. Its claims to distinction rest on 
its larger size, comparatively short tail, and rusty tail-coverts. With only a single Costa Rican specimen 
supposed to belong to M. nutting? before us, we are not in a position to give any opinion concerning 
M. brachyurus. 
