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MYIODYNASTES MACULATUS INSOLENS Ridgway 



Myiodynastes audax insolens Ridgwat, Manual of North American birds, 1887, 

 pp. 332, 502 (Mirador, Veracruz, Mexico). 



The only specimen is a female, taken at 2,500 feet elevation on 

 Volcan San Martin, April 22, 1940. Carriker found a pair here in 

 a huge tree standing in an old clearing in the forest. 



MEGARYNCHUS PITANGUA MEXICANUS (Lafresnaye) 



Saurophagus mexicanus Lafkesnaye, Rev. Mag. Zool., 1851, p. 473 (Mexico). 



These birds were fairly common along the border of woodland and 

 at times in the forest itself, ranging in leafy trees, usually where there 

 was a little shade. Two were taken on March 16 and 27, 1939. On 

 April 7 I recorded one carrying nesting material. 



MYIOZETETES SIMILIS TEXENSIS (Giraud) 



Muscicapa texensis Giraud, A description of sixteen new species of North 

 American birds, 1841, (p. 5), pi. 1 ("Texas"). 



The present form is widely distributed through the lowland areas 

 in the open limbs of high tree tops in the forests, and in groves, 

 scattered trees, and shrubbery elsewhere. Carriker recorded its ab- 

 sence in the Sierra de Tuxtla so far as his observations extended. 

 Specimens were taken at Tres Zapotes in 1939 on March 9, 23, and 

 April 11 and 13, and in 1940 on January 19, 25, and February 22. 

 Carriker shot one at El Conejo on February 10 and one at Tlacotal- 

 pam on May 16. He says that they were nesting in May and de- 

 scribes the nest as built of dry grass, of large size, and domed with 

 an entrance in the side, like that of Pitangus. I found these fly- 

 catchers feeding at the drupes of the palo mulato tree. 



The name for this race has been one that recently has been under 

 question. Bonaparte in listing a collection of birds from Guate- 

 mala 39 had one of these birds which he thought was representative 

 of a species that had been named Tyrannula superciliosa by Swain- 

 son. 40 Bonaparte therefore listed his Guatemalan specimen as 

 "Tyrannm superciliosus, Swains." following the name by a brief 

 description and measurements in Latin. Swainson's species, however, 

 was a different form, somewhat similar in color and size, his name 

 being considered now a synonym of Conopias trivirgata trivirgata. 

 Nelson, 41 and later Peters, 42 have considered that the superciliosus of 

 Bonaparte is to be accepted as valid, and therefore the name to be used 

 for the race of Myiozetetes that has been generally called texensis, since 



38 F-roc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837 (June 14, 1838), p. 118. 



40 Tyrannula superciliosa Swainson, Ornithological drawings, pt. 4, pi. 46, 1836 (Brazil). 



41 Auk, 1900, p. 124. 



12 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 69, Oct. 1929, p. 448. 



