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Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 316 (crit.); Ibis, 1885, 298 (Camacusa, 

 Merume Mts.,and Roraima, 3,500 ft., British Guiana). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 137 (Santa Marta, Colombia), 158 (Puebla Vieja, Santa 

 Marta),176 (Palomina and San Miguel, Santa Marta). — Hartert, Novit. Zool., 

 V, 1898, 488 (Chimbo and Paramba, n. \v. Ecuador: crit.). — Salvadori and 

 Festa, Boll. Mas. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, no. 362, 1899, 13 (LaConcepcion, 

 centr. Ecuador; Niebli, w. Ecuador). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. X.H., xiii,1900, 

 143 (Minca, etc., Santa Marta, Colombia). — Goodfellow, Ibis, 1901 . 707 (Intac 

 and Gualea, w. Ecuador). — Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvii, 1904, 49 

 (monogr.). — Menegaux, Bull. Mus. d'Hist. Nat. Paris, 1904, 118 (I'Ouanary, 

 Cayenne). — Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiii, 1906, 26 (range). 



[Myiarchiis] nigriceps Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 52. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, iii, 1901, 146. 



MyiarcJius lawrencii, var. nigriceps Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci. and Arts, iv, Dec, 

 1872, 445 (Panama to Ecuador). 



[Myiarchus tristis] var. nigriceps Baird, Brewer, and RiDfiWAY, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 333. 



{Pyrocephalus'] nigriceps Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 363, no. 5526. 



Myiarchus brunneiceps Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii. May 27, 

 1861, 327 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.). 



(?) Myiarchus tuherculifer (not Tyrannus luherculifer D'Orbigny and Lafresnaye?) 

 Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., 1884, 304 (Bucaranianga, Colombia). 



MYIARCHUS BARBIROSTRIS iSwainson). 

 SAD FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to M. lawrenceii lawrenceii, l>nt niiieh smaller (wing 66.5- 

 75.5), gray of throat much paler (nearly grayish white) and not 

 extended over chest, and remiges and rectrices much less distinctly 

 edged with rusty. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum deep sooty brown (dark sepia to 

 nearly clove brown); rest of upper parts olive, paler on rump, the 

 upper tail-coverts browner and usually tinged with rusty; tail dark 

 grayish brown or dusky, the outer webs of rectrices edged with lighter 

 (often cinnamomeous) brown, their inner webs usually rather nar- 

 rowly edgetl with light cinnamon; wings dusky, the middle and 

 greater coverts tipped with light brown or dull cinnamon-brown 

 (paler in worn plumage), the secondaries edged (except basally) with 

 light or pale cinnamon (the inner secondaries with edgings broader 

 and whitish); auricular region similar in color to pileum; sides of 

 neck similar in color to back, but rather paler; malar region, chin, 

 and throat very pale gray or grayish white; rest of under parts pale 

 (primrose) yellow, the chest tinged with pale olive; axillars and 

 vmder wing-coverts primrose yellow; inner webs of remiges edged 

 with pale cinnamon; maxilla deep to dark horn brown, mandible 

 similar, but paler; iris brown; legs and feet black to dusky brown. 



Young. — wSimilar to adults, but cinnamomeous edgings to remiges 

 and rectrices rather more distinct. 



