47<S BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Pyrocephalus rxhlneus, var. mexicanus Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. 

 Am. Bird8, ii, 1874, 387.— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 287 

 (Mazatlan; Plains of Colima; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Lawrence, 

 Bull. \J. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 27 (Santa Efigenia and Tehuantepec City, 

 Oaxaca).— Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 141 (Fort Brown, Texas; 

 hal)its; descr. nest and eggs). 



rywcephnhis riihincu.s vie.ricamis Coues and Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. 

 Surv. Terr., iv, no. 1, 1878, 34 (Brownsville, Texas); v, nq. 3, 1879, 409 

 (Lomita Ranch, Texas; measurements, etc.). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 

 1881, no. 330; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 589 (Segovia R., s. Honduras).— 

 Belding, Proc. LT. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 542 (La Paz, Lower California). — 

 Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 207 (Cienega Station, Tucson, and 

 Santa Rita Mts., Arizona; crit; habits; descr. nest, eggs, and young); Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 123 (La Paz, San Jose del Cabo, and Santiago, s. 

 Lower California, Oct. to Feb.).— Coue.s, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 394.— 

 Ferari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 154 (San Martin Texmelu- 

 can, Puebla; Tlaxcala; Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 471.— Beckham, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 

 668 (near Corpus Christi, Texas).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 

 no. 2, 1891, 323 (Nueces Valley, 25 m. w. of Corpus Christi; eastern limit). — 

 Allen, Bidl. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 339 (crit.; measurements). — Grin- 

 NELL (J.), Pul). 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 31 (Los Angeles Co., California, 

 rare in winter).— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci., for 1896-7 (1899). 222 

 (Florido and Altata, Sinaloa).— Williams (R. W., jr.). Auk, xviii, 1901, 273 

 (Tallahassee, Florida, 1 spec. Mar. 25, 1901); xxi, 1904, 457 (same occur- 

 rence). — Carpenter, Condor, iv, 1902, 94 (Escondido, San Diego Co., Califor- 

 nia, i spec, Apr. 6, 1902).— Swarth, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 28 

 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona; crit.). 



P[yrocephalus] rubineus mexicanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 444; 

 5th ed., i, 1903, 533.— RInGW^AY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 345. 



PYROCEPHALUS NANUS (Gould). 

 GALAPAGOS VERMILION FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to P. rubinus mexicanus, but much smaller, with larger feet; 

 adult male wit]i color of back, etc., umcli darker (sooty blackish), 

 immature male with under ])arts of body wholl^^pale red, adult female 

 w ith under parts (except throat) yellow or salmon color, young with 

 under parts of body yellow or buff -yellow. 



Adult male. — Entire pileiun bright po])]\y red, scarlet-vermilion, or 

 scarlet; malar region and entire under parts lighter red (varying from 

 between geranium red and scarlet-vermilion to orange-chrome), the 

 feathers of throat white beneath surface ; loral and auricular regions, 

 sides of neck, hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 tail, and wings plain dark sooty brown or sooty blackish, the remiges 

 and rectrices sometimes margined terminally with pale grayish or 

 grayish white; bill brownish black, the mandible more brownish 

 basally; legs and feet brownish black; iris brown; length (skins), 

 104-126 (123); wing, 61-67 (63.8); tail, 48.5-54.5 (51); exposed cul- 

 nien, 12.5-14 (13.2); tarsus, 17-19 (18.1); middle toe, 9.5-11 (10.8) .« 



a Nineteen specimens. 



