2G8 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF [June-Oct., 



289. Tyrannus dominicensis dominicensis (Gnielin). Graj' Kingbird. 



Female, Gatun, February 16, 1912. Bill and feet black. 



*290. Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnseus). Kingbird. 



Female, Toro Point, April 27, 1913. 

 A solitary migrant, perfectly silent. 



291. Tyrannus melancholicus satrapa (Cabanis and Heine). Lichtenstein's Kingbird. 



Two males and two females, Gatun, December 3, February 5, 1911, 

 and February 12, March 26, 1911. Iris brown, bill black, feet blue- 

 black. 



A very common species in shrubbery along the lake, apparently 

 always near water. 



Nest a thin cup of vine stalks and tendrils in a bush, five feet up, con- 

 tained three eggs March 20, 1912, .98 x .71, .99 x .70 and .98 x .72 in. 



292. Muscivora tyrannus (Linnaeus). Swallow-tailed Flycatcher. 



Female, Mindi, October 29, 1911. Iris brown, bill and feet black. 

 Shot from a small tree in a pasture. 



PIPRID^. 



293. Pipra mentalis ignifera Bangs. Southern Yellow-thighed Manakin. 



Three males, Gatun, April 30, August 27, 1911, and February 22, 

 1912. 

 Found in trees in low flat jungle. 



294. Pipra velutina Berlepsch. Velvety Manakin. 



Female, Gatun, July 30, 1911. Iris brown, bill black above 

 grayish below, feet blue-black. 

 A bird of the forest. 



[295.] Chiroprion lanceolata (Wagler). Sharp-tailed Manakin. 

 [296.1 Laniocera rufescens (Sclater). Rufous Manakin. 

 297. Manacus vitellinus (Gould). Gould's Manakin. 



Three males and a female, Gatun, February 22, April 9 and 14, 1911, 

 and April 14, 1911. Iris and bill black, feet reddish-orange. 



Always found in fairty thick jungle. Flies with wing beats almost 

 as rapid as those of a hummingbird, seen in shrubs and bushes, never 

 high up nor on the ground. Makes a snapping noise exactly like 

 knocking two stones together and another sound like tearing heavy 

 cloth. 



Nest hung on a fork of a horizontal twig of a small bush five feet 

 from the ground, a very frail shallow cup, made of strips of plant bark, 

 hair-like rootlets and grass stalks. Eggs two, heavity incubated 

 (April 14), .62 x .82 in., grayish, heavily streaked longitudinally with 

 varying shades of brown. Another nest contained two fresh eggs 

 May 7, 1911. 



