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true position might be more satisfactorily determined. Prof. 

 Sutnichrast has not been able to obtain any more specimens, and, 

 as he has informed me his collections are suspended for the pre- 

 sent on account of the revolution which has taken place in Tehuan- 

 tepec, I have concluded to describe it, and have conferred his 

 name upon it. 



TYRANNIDiE. 



2. Myiozetetes grandis. 



Crown dusk3' olive-gray, with a concealed crest of bright ver- 

 milion ; front and sides of the crown pale yellowish-white, the 

 stripe becoming broader as it extends backwards ; lores and sides 

 of the head dark grayish fuliginous ; upper plumage greenish- 

 olive ; tail feathers dark brown, narrowlj^ margined with the color 

 of the back; quills dark brown, narrowly edged with greenish- 

 yellow ; the smaller wing coverts are the color of the back, the 

 middle and larger coverts dark brown, tipped with dull pale 

 yellow ; throat grayish-white, just tinged with yellow ; entire under 

 parts besides, and under wing coverts gamboge 3'ellow ; bill and 

 feet black. 



Length, 1| inches ; wing, 3| ; tail, 3f ; tarsi, |. 



Habitat. "Province of Turabes, Peru." 



The type is in the Museum of Yassar College, and was received 

 by Prof. Orton from J. F. Reeve, Esq. 



Remarks. — This species somewhat exceeds all others of the 

 genus in size, and is also of a deeper 3'ellow below ; in its colora- 

 tion and markings it most resembles 31. columbianiis, but besides 

 its much greater dimensions, it differs in having a wider supercil- 

 liary stripe, which, with the throat, is more tinged with yellow, 

 also in the deeper coloring of the under plumage ; it, likewise, is 

 somewhat like 31. texensis, but is rather larger; in that species, 

 however, the wing coverts are without j'ellowish margins. 



3. Empidonax atrirostris. 



The feathers of the crown are light brown, slightlv rufescent 

 and with dusk}' centres ; the front is grayish-white, and a line of 

 the same color extends from the bill to over the eye ; plumage 

 above of a light brownish-olive ; tail feathers blackish-brown, the 

 outer web of the lateral feather and the ends of all edged with 

 dull gray; the wing coverts and quills are blackish-brown, all ex- 



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