720 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Southern Mexico and southward throu<]jh Central America and over 

 practically the whole of tropical and subtropical South America, as 

 far as plains of Argentina, Uruguay, and northern Patagonia; Grenada 

 and Carriacou, Lesser Antilles; accidental in Mississippi, '^ Kentucky, " 

 New Jersey (Camden; Bridgeton), southern California,'' and in Ber- 

 mudas. {Vera Cruz: Playa Vicente ; Tlalcotalpam. Oaxaca: (No 

 precise locality cited). Guatemala: Poctum (Peten) ; SanGeronimo; 

 Estansuelos. British Honduras : Belize; Old River and Pine Ridge 

 near Belize; Saddle Cay; Half Moon Cay. Honduras: Omoa; Coma- 

 yagua; Lake Yojoa; Langui; Agua Azul. Nicaragua : Chontales; 

 San Juan del Sur. Costa Rica: San Jose; Alajuela; Volcan de Irazu; 

 Volcan de Miravalles ; Turrialba ; Bonilla ; Guayabal ; Orosl. Pan- 

 ama: Lion Hill; Divala; David; Castillo; Calovevora; Calobre; San- 

 tiago; Santa Fe de Veragua. Lesser Antilles : Grenada; Carriacou.] 



[Musdcapd] tyrannus Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 325 (Surinam; based on 

 Tyrannus cauda bifiirca Brisson, Orn., ii, 395, pi. 39, fig. 3). 



M[ascicapa] tyramvus Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 52 (Brazil). 



Muscicapa tyrannus Maximilian , Beitr. Naturg. Bras.,iii, pt. ii, 1831, 34. 



Tyrannus tyrannus D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. Merid., iv, pt. 3 (Ois.), 1839, 310 (Prov- 

 ince Chiquitos and Moxos, Bolivia; Province Corrientes and Entre Rios, 

 Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay; south to Rio Negro, Patagonia). 



Despotes tyrannus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., 1854, 87. 



Milvulus tyrannus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 25. — Audubon, Synop- 

 sis, 1839, 38; Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 196, pi. 52.— Cabanis, in Schom- 

 burgk's Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 699; Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 251 (Costa 

 Rica). — Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1848, 86 (Bermudas, accidental). — Burmeis- 

 TER, Verz. Mus. Hals., 1850, 46. — Hurdis, in Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 53 

 (Bermudas, 2 spec). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 141 (David, Pan- 

 ama), 297 (plains of Vera Cruz); 1858, 358 (Lake Yojoa, Honduras); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 237 (Mexico); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 279 (Mexico; Poc- 

 tum, Guatemala; Chontales, Nicaragua; Orosi and Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica; 

 Castillo, Panama, and Santa Fe de Veragua, Panama, and South American 

 localities south to Argentina and Uruguay). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 168; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 122.— Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1859, 55 (Belize, British Honduras; Peten, Guatemala; Omoa and 

 Comayagua, Honduras). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 

 361 (Panama); 1867, 578 (Guia, Rio Negro, n. Brazil); 1869, 252 (plains of 

 Valencia, Venezuela); 1873, 282 (Pebas, e. Peru); 1879, 516 (Retiro and Medel- 

 lin, Colombia; habits; descr. nest and eggs), 616 (Santa Cruz, Province Moxos, 

 and Chiquitos, Bolivia). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1865, 177 (David, 

 Panama); ix, 1868, 116 (San Jose, Costa Rica). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1867, 149 (Santa Fe de Veragua, Santiago, and David, Panama); 1870, 

 199 (Castillo, Calovevora, and Calobre, Panama); Ibis, 1872, 318 (Chontales, 

 Nicaragua); 1885, 299 (Bartica Grove and Roraima, British Guiana); Cat. 

 Strickland Coll., 1882, 318 (Brazil).— Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 309 

 (Costa Rica). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 556 (tierra caliente 



a According to Audubon. 



b Evidence of occurrence in California iKit considered satisfactory 1)y Grinnell 

 (Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 78.) All the United States records, it may be 

 stated, are more or less doubtful. 



