602 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Aulanax] aquaticus Heine and Reichenow, Noin. Mus. Heiii. Orn., 1890, 145 

 (Costa Rica). 



Sayornis aquatica (not of Sclater and Salvin) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 

 1868, 110 (Costa Rica).— Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 306 (Costa Rica).— 

 BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 62 (San Jose, Costa Rica; habits). — 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 33, part (Costa Rica). — Salvin 

 and Godman, BioL Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1889, 65, part (Costa Rica; Nica- 

 ragua ?). — Alfaro, Paginas Illustradas, i, 1904, 505 (Costa Rica; habits; 

 descr. nest and eggs). 



[Sayornis] aquatica Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 43, part (Costa 

 Rica). — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 137, part (Costa Rica). 



Sayornis nigricans var. aquatica 'Ridgw ay, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, Dec, 1872, 

 456, part (Costa Rica). 



Sayornis nigricans var. aquaticus Baird, Brewer, and RiDCiWAY, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 340, part (Costa Rica). 



Sayornis nigricans aquatica Nelson, Auk, xvii, 1900, 125, part (Costa Rica). 



Sayornis amnicola Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, Jan. 30, 1902, 37 

 (Boquete, Panama, 4,000 ft.; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



SAYORNIS SAYA (Bonaparte). 

 SAY'S PHffiBE. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above plain brownish gray, the pileum and 

 hindneck decidedly darker; upper tail-coverts dusky grayish, usually 

 margined with paler; tail brownish black, the outer web of lateral 

 rectrix more or less distinctly edged with whitish; wings deep brownish 

 gray with pale brownish gray edgings, these broader and approaching 

 dull whitish on inner secondaries and terminal portion of greater cov- 

 erts; sides of head and neck similar in color to upper portions, chang- 

 ing gradually below into the pale buffy brownish gray of chin and 

 throat; chest and sides of breast light buffy brownish gray, the median 

 portion of chest usually more strongly tinged wdth buff; rest of under 

 parts cinnamon-buff; axillars and under wing-coverts pale buff or 

 cream-buff; inner webs of remiges edged with buffy whitish; bill, legs, 

 and feet black; iris brown. 



Young. — Similar to adults, but upper parts browner, and middle 

 and greater wing-coverts broadly tipped with cinnamon or cinnamon- 

 buff (forming two distinct bands). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 158-182 (174); wing, 100.5-111 

 (105.5); tail, 77-87 (81.7); exposed culmen, 14.5-17 (15.7); tarsus, 

 18.5-22 (20.4); middle toe, 11.5-13 (11.9).<^ 



Adult female.~Lengt\i (skins), 164-182 (173); wing, 95.5-104.5 

 (101); tail, 75.5-86 (78.6); exposed culmen, 13.5-18 (14.4); tarsus, 

 18.5-21 (19.6); middle toe, 10.5-12 (11.6).^ 



Western North America; north to Alaska (Fort Yukon; 20 miles 

 above Circle; Glacier; mountains near Eagle; Sixty-mile Creek; Chu- 

 litna Kiver), Yukon Territory (Fort Selkirk; 50 miles below Fort. 



« Twenty-two specimens. & Seventeen specimens. 



