270 Mr. Swainson on the 



The lengthened and compressed bill of this bird, joined to the fact of 

 its occasionally feeding- upon reptiles, gives it some analogy to the Tham- 

 nophilincs, although its economy in other respects is very different. 



Sp. 2. Tyrannus Pitangua, 



Broad-billed Tyrant. 



T. rufo-fuscus, infra flavus; vertice nigro aurantiacoque vario; jugulo annu- 

 loque verticem cingente albis ; rostro maximo, depresso. 



Rufous brown, beneath yellow ; crown varied with black and yellow ,' throat 

 and ring encircling the crown, white ; bill very large, depressed. 



Lanius Pitangua, Lin. (Ed. 13. Vindob. 1767.) p. 136. Gm. 303. Ind. Orn. 1. 



78. PI. Enl.212. 

 Tyrannus Braziliensis. Brisson. Ois. 2. tab. 36. f. 5. 

 Tyrannus Bentaveo. Vieil. Ois. Am. pi. l.f. 16. (rostrum.) 



This presents one of those many examples which will occur to 

 the ornithologist, of one bird being clothed in precisely the same 

 coloured plumage as that of another totally distinct. The de- 

 scription applicable to the colours of T. sulphuratus, will equally 

 apply to T. Pitangua. These two species, in fact, are only to be 

 known by the different construction of their bills ; in T. Pitangua 

 this organ is so unusually large and depressed, as to have induced 

 M. Temminck to arrange the bird among the Platyrhynchi ; while 

 the bill of T. sulphuratus, as before observed, is altogether com- 

 pressed. 



Inhabits the intertropical countries of America, but is much less fre- 

 quent in Brazil than the last. 



Total length 9, bill I j^, in breadth -&, wings 4j, tail 3j, tarsi -&. 



Sp. 3. Tyrannus audax. 



T*. fuscus albo varius, albus infra strigis fuscis varius ; crista flavS ; cauda 

 sequali rufo marginal. 



Brown variegated with white, beneath white, with brown stripes; crest yellow ; 

 tail even, margined with rufous. 



Mus. Audax. Lath. Yellow-crowned Fly-catcher. Gen. Syn. 3. 358. PI. Enl. 

 453.2. 



Size of the Benteve. Bill large, black, depressed ; plumage above 

 blackish brown, variegated with whitish, each feather having a narrow 

 lateral border of that colour ; crown brown, with a concealed crest of 

 beautiful yellow ; on each side of the head, above the eye, is a white 

 band ; and another extends from the rictus to the base of the ears : under 

 plumage white, with a short stripe of blackish-brown in the middle of 

 each feather. These stripes are most conspicuous on the throat and 

 breast; they become faint on the abdomen, which has a pale tinge of 



