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KEY TO THE SPECIES AM) SUBSPECIES OF PYROCEPHALUS. 



a. Under parts not uniform sooty l)r(>\vn or gray. 



h. Pileum and under parts bright red or orange. (Adult males.) 

 c. Larger, with smaller feet (wing 70-88, tarsus 14.5-17). {Pyrocephahin rubinus.) 

 d. Back, etc., sooty grayish brown, not black. 



e. Grayish brown of back, etc., lighter; red of under parts more orange in hue. 

 (Southwestern United States to southern Honduras.) 



Pyrocephalus rubinus mexicanus (p. 475) 

 ee. Brown of l>ack, etc., darker; red of under j)arts iiioic intense, less orange 

 in hue. 

 /. Brown of liack l)ut little darker than in /'. r. inexicnnufi; outermost 

 rectrix rarely edged with whitish; larger. (Southern Brazil, Argen- 

 tina, etc.) Pyrocephalus rubinus rubinus (extralimital) " 



ff. Brown of back, etc., decidedly <larker tluui in P. ?•. mexicanus; outer- 

 most rectix usually with outer wel) whitish or edged with that color; 

 smaller. (Colombia to Peru.) 



Pyrocephalus rubinus heterurus (extralimital )& 



aMuscicapa rubinus Boddaert, Tabl. PL Enl., 1783, 42 (Brazil; based on PL Enl. 

 675, fig. 1). — P[yroc('phalus] rubineus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 250. — Pyrocephalus 

 rubineus Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 227; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 211, 

 part. — [Pyrocephalus rubineus] var. rubineus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 387. — [Muscicapa] coronata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 

 932 (based on PL Enl. 675, fig. 1, and Round-crested Flycatcher Latham, Synopsis, ii, 

 pt. i, 362, no. 72). — M[uscipeta] coronata D'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, Mag. de ZooL, 1837 

 (Synopsis Avium, p. 47). — Muscipcta coronata Descourtilz, Orn. Bres., 1854-56, pi. 23, 

 fig. 5. — [Pryocephalus] coronatus Bonaparte, Consp, Av., i, 1850, 188. — Pyrocephalus 

 coronatus Burmeister, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 246 (Banda Oriental and Parana, Argen- 

 tina). — T[yrannula] coronata Hartlaub, Syst. Verz., 1844, 50 (Brazil). — Muscipeta 

 strigilata Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iii, pt. ii, 1831, 900 (Camamii, s. of Bahia, 

 Brazil; =female; type now in coll. Am. Mus. N. H.; see Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H,. 

 ii, 1889, 235). — Pyrocephalus strigilatus Reinhardt, Vid. Med. naturh. For. Kjoben- 

 havn, 1870 (Fugelf. Bras. Camp., p. 142). — Pyrocephalus parvirostris Gould, ZooL Voy. 

 " Beagle," iii, 1841, 44, pi. 6 (La Plata, Argentina; type now in coll. Brit. Mus.). — 

 P[yrocephalus] parvirostris Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 67 (Rio Grande 

 do Sul). 



^ Pyrocephalus rubineus (not Muscicapa rubinus Boddaert) Sclater, Proc. ZooL Soc. 

 Lond., 1854, 113 (Ecuador); 1855, 149 (Bogota, Colombia); 1866, 99 (Lima, Peru, 

 habits; crit.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 211, part (Valle Dupar, Valencia, 

 Bogota, Medellin, and Choco Bay, Colombia; Guayaquil, Babahoyo, Puna I., Intac, 

 Sarayacu, and Santa Rita, Ecuador; Pebas, Rio Ucayali, Caterido Valley, Islay, 

 Tambo Valley, and Payta, Peru); Sclater and Salvin, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1866, 

 189 (upper and lower Ucayali, e. Peru ) ;1873, 186 (Cosnipata, Peru), 281 (upper and 

 lower Ucayali and Santa Cruz, e. Peru; habits; descr. eggs); 1879, 515 (Medellin, 

 Antioquia, Colomlna; descr. nest and eggs); Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 202 

 (Valle Dupar, Santa Marta, Colombia); 1880, 125 (Colombia); Taczamtwski, Proc. 

 ZooL Soc. Lond., 1879, 235 (Pacasmayo and Guajango, Peru; crit.); 1880, 203 (Calla- 

 cate, Peru); Berlepsch and Stolzmann, Proc ZooL Soc. Lond., 1896, 366 (La Merced, 

 centr. Peru). — Pyrocephalus rubineus coi'onatus (not Muscicapa coronata Gmelin) 

 Taczanowski, Orn. du Perou, ii, 1884, 310. — Pyrocephalus nanus (not of Gould) Sclater, 

 Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1859, 46, 144 (Pallatanga, Ecuador); 1860, 282, 295 (Esme- 

 raldas, w. Ecuador); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 228, excL synonymy (Pallatanga and 

 Babahoyo, w. Ecuador). — [Pyrocephalus rubineus] var. nanus Baird, Brewer and 



