BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



499 



Adult female.— J jeuirih (skins), 11()-129 (121); win^;, 66-72 (68.4); 

 tail, 57.5-62 (60.2); exposed culiiieii, 8.5-10 (9.2); tarsus, 12-13 

 (12.6); midiUo toe, 6.5-7.5 (7).« 



Southern ]\Iexieo, in wStates of ^'e^a Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; Cofre 

 lie Perote; Orizaba; Texolo), Mexico (Tetelco; Ixta])alapa) ;'' More- 

 los (Cuernavaca; Tetela del A'olcan);'' Michoacan (Mount Tanci- 

 taro) '^ and Oaxaca (Talea; La Parada; Cerro San Felipe; 15 miles 

 west of Oaxaca Cit}^ ; Guatemala (Coban; Dueilas; Calderas; Vol- 

 can de Fuego; Quezahenano;o; Quiche; Uspantan; mountains above 

 Cabulco; ridge above Totonicapam) ; Nicaragua (Matagalpa).^ 



Tyrannula ? Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 296 (Cordova, Vera Cruz). 



Empidonax ? Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 302 (La Parada, Oaxaca). 



Milrephorus phxocercus Sclater, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1859, 44 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz, Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater), 384 (Talea, Oaxaca); Ibis, 1859,442, pi. 14, 

 fig. 2 (Cordova and Orizaba, Vera Cruz; La Parada, Oaxaca; crit.); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 228 (Cordova; Coban, Guatemala). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 

 1859, 122 (Guatemala).— SuMiciiRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 557 

 (Vera Cruz).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 313 (Guatemala). 



[Mitrejjhorus] phieocercus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 51, part. 



[Pyrocephalus] phxoccrcxis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 361, no. 5487. 



Mitrephanes phieocerais Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Clul), vii, Jan., 1882, 55. — 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 219, part (Cordova and Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz; Oaxaca; Coban, Calderas, and Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala). — 

 S.\LviN and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1889, 66, part (Tetelco and 

 Ixtapalapa, Mexico; Jalapa, Cofre do Perote, Orizaba, and Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz; Talea, Oaxaca; Coban, Dueiias^ Volcan de Fuego, ridge above Totoni- 

 capam, and Quezaltenaligo, Guatemala). — Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 x, 1898, 31 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



M[itrcphanes] phxocercus Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1892, 326 (Matagalpa, Nica- 

 ragua; crit.). 



[Mitrephanes] phxocercus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 136. 



a Six specimens. 



Three Guatemalan specimens (one of them with sex undetermined') are more deeply- 

 colored than the majority of Mexican examples, and it is not improliable that a suffi- 

 cient series may show that there is enough difference Ix'tween the l)irds from llie two 

 countries to justifj' subspecific separation. 



& Specimens not seen from State of Mexico; probably they are, like those from More- 

 los and Michoacan, intermediate between the typical form and M. p. tenvirostris. 



c Specimens from these localities incline toward M. p. tenuiroslris. 



'^ Nicaraguan specimens not seen by me. They should be carefully compared with 

 Mexican examples. 



