38 JVelson — North Americmi Mainland Myiarchns. 



hrachyuriis and apparently occupies about the same range, for both have 

 been taken along the Pacific coast region from Costa Rica to Chiapas, 

 Mexico. Its smaller size, less greenish upperparts and slightly darker 

 underparts are the main characters. The small bill of nuttingi at once 

 distinguishes it among the specimens of bracJiyiirus at hand. In the 

 original description of mittingi the specimens cited as belonging to 

 that species, with the exception of the type, all proved to belong to an- 

 other species which Mr. Ridgway afterwards described as bracliyvms, 

 thus leaving the type the unique representative of nvttivgi in the 

 National Museum collection until two others were secured by Mr. Gold- 

 man and myself in Chiapas and Guatemala. Through the lack of 

 definite knowledge of just what nuttingi represented, quite a number of 

 erroneous citations of this species have been made, and its range unwar- 

 rantably extended far beyond its real limits. Attention is called to this 

 in the notes upon M. ciner<tscens. 



A specimen in the Bangs collection, taken on the boundary line be- 

 tween Nicaragua and Honduras, 180 miles from the Pacific coast, differs 

 from typical birds in having a well marked dusky line along the shaft on 

 the inner web of outer tail feather, and less conspicuously the same on 

 other tail feathers, as in typical inqidetns. The size and color, however, 

 show that this is nuttingi, and these tail markings merely due to in- 

 dividual variation. 



Myiarchus nuttingi inquietus (Salvin and Godman). 

 godman's flycatcher. 



1889. Myiarchus inquietus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Cent. -Am., II, 

 p. 88. March, 1889. 



Type locality. — Acahuizotla*, Guerrero, Mexico. Type in British 

 Museum. 



Breeding range. — Arid tropical and subtropical parts of southwestern 

 Mexico from central western Chihuahua and southern Sonora to Isthmus 

 of Tehuantepec and inland to southern Puebla. No definite migration, 

 but strays in winter to Guatemala. 



Specimens examined from: Sonora (Nacosari, Alamos); Chihuahua 

 (Batopilas, Hacienda San Rafael, El Carmen, Durasno);Sinaloa(Culiacan): 

 Durango, (Chacala); Tepic (Acaponeta); Zacatecas(San Juan Capistrano); 

 Jalisco (La Barca) ; Michoacan (La Salada, Zamora) ; Morelos. ( Yecapixtla) ; 

 Puebla (Tehuacan); Guerrero (Acahuizotla, Dos Arroyos, El Rincon, 

 Acapulo, Papayo, El Naranjo, La Lagunilla, Rio Balsas): Oaxaca 

 (Huilotepec, Tehuantepec City, Santa Efigenia, Chihuitan); Chiapas 

 (Gineta Mountains); Guatemala (Nenton). 



*This is a small plantation on the road between Acapulco and Chil- 

 pancingo. The spelling of the name Acaguisotla given in the original 

 description is erroneous for the owners of the place spell it as given 

 above. 



