700 BULLETIN 50^ UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TYRANNUS MELANCHOLICUS SATRAPA ( Cabanis and Heine). 

 LICHTENSTEIN'S KINGBIRD. 



Similar to T. m. melancholicus ,^ but averaging lighter and clearer 

 in color of upper parts, throat paler gray (nearly white), chest less 

 strongly olive-greenish, and yellow of under parts deeper. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck plain gray (about no. 7), the 

 crown with a large concealed longitudinal patch of bright reddish 

 orange (orange chrome), underlaid posteriorly and laterally with 

 yellow and white; back, scapulars, and rump mixed gray and yellow- 

 ish olive-green, in varying relative proportion, sometimes^ uniform 

 yellowish olive-green, sometimes'^ mostly gray; upper tail-coverts 

 dark olive or dusky grayish brown margined (more or less distinctly) 

 with paler; tail dusky grayish brown, the rectrices margined terminally 

 (more or less distinctly) with paler, their outer webs edged with pale 

 olive (nearly white on edge of lateral rectrix) ; wings dusky grayish 

 brown, the middle and posterior lesser coverts broadly margined 

 with pale gray or brownish gray, the greater coverts and secondaries 

 edged with paler gray or pale yellowish olive or olive-yellow (the 

 edgings much broader on ftiner secondaries) , the primary coverts and 

 primaries more narrowly edged with pale grayish; lores gray, more 

 or less suffused with dusky posteriorly; auricular region (except 

 lower portion) dusky gray, with indistinct shaft-streaks of paler; sub- 

 orbital and malar regions and lower portion of auricular region very 

 pale gray, passing into white or grayish white on chin and throat, the 

 lower portion of the latter more or less tinged with gray; chest light 

 yellowish olive, deeper laterally; rest of under parts plain yellow 

 (canary to nearly chrome, usually between canary and lemon), the 

 under tail-coverts paler yellow; axillars and under wing-coverts pale 

 (primrose) yellow; inner webs of remiges edged with dull yellowish 

 white; bill black or brownish black, the mandible sometimes more 

 brownish basally; iris brown; legs and feet black or brownish black; 

 length (skins), 184-230 (221); wing, 109.5-124.5 (119.5) ; tail, 87-105 

 (98.9); exposed culmen, 20-27 (22.9); tarsus, 15.5-20 (18.7); middle 

 toe, 12-15 (14.1).'^ 



Adult female . — Similar to the male and not always distinguishable 

 as to coloration, but tips of longer primaries much less distinct!}^ 

 (sometimes hardly at all) attenuated, and orange crown-patch usually 

 smaller; length (skins), 185-219 (203); wing, 104-115 (111.1); tail, 



a See the "Key" on p. 688. 



b Especially in specimens from Yucatan. 



c Especially in specimens from Cozumel Island, Yucatan. 



d Sixty-nine specimens. 



