BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 661 



Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 333 (Bucaramanga, Colombia). — Nutting, Proc. U. S- 

 Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 394 (La Palina, w. Costa Rica). 



[Filangus] nobilis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 357, no. 5434. 



M[yiodij7iastes] audax nobilis Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 332 Venezuela. 

 Colombia, Ecuador, and north to Costa Rica). 



Myiodynastes audax (not Musdcapa audax Gmelin) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 514 (Santa Elena and Frontino, Colombia, descr. 

 eggs). — Salvin and GoDMAN, Ibis, 1879, 201 (Manuare, Province Santa Marta, 

 Colombia, alt. 2,700 ft.); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1889, 49, part (Colombia; 

 Venezuela; Ciuiana?; Ecuador; Lion Hill, Paraiso Staticm, Chepo, David, 

 Chitra, Calobre, Bugaba, and Santa Fe de Veragua, Panama; Barranca, San 

 Mateo, Cervantes, Turrialba, and Bebedero, Costa Rica). — (?) Salvin, Ibis, 

 1885, 296 (British Guiana).— (?) Berlepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 1884, 303 

 (Bucaramanga, Colombia; crit.). — Taczanowski and Berlepsch, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, 91 (Yaguachi, Ecuador). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 

 438 (Vol can de Miravalles, Costa Rica). 



[Myiodynastes] audax Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 50, part. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 129, part. 



Myiodynastes audax nobilis Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 137 (Santa 

 Marta, Colombia), 176 (Palomina, Santa Marta); Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, 

 ii, 1900, 22 (Lion Hill, Panama); iii, 1902, 37 (Boquete, Panama, 3,500 to 4,800 

 ft.); Auk, xviii, 1901, 363 (Divala, Panama). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 

 xiii, 1900, 145 (Bonda, etc., Santa Marta); xxi, 1905, 283 (Bonda; descr. nest 

 and eggs). — Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 607 (Carondelet, Paramba, and 

 and San Javier, n. w. Ecuador). — Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., xlvi, 1905, 152 (San Miguel, Saboga, and Pacheca islands. Bay of 

 Panama). 



MYIODYNASTES MACULATUS INSOLENS (Ridgway). 

 INSOLENT FLYCATCHEE. 



Similar to M. m. nobilis, but general color of pileiim olive (not cin- 

 namonieous), concolor with back, etc.; pale wing-edgings much nar- 

 rower, especially on primaries and distal secondaries; under tail- 

 coverts usually much more narrowly streaked, sometimes almost 

 immaculate; wing averaging decidedly longer, tail and bill averaging 

 shorter. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 191-211 (204); wing, 113.5-118.5 

 (115.4); tail, 81-86.5 (84.3); exposed culmen, 21.5-24.5 (23.3); tar- 

 sus, 18.5-21 (20); middle toe, 14-15 (14.6).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 194-208 (203); wing, 107.5-111 

 (108.8); tail, 77-83.5 (80.5); exposed culmen, 21.5-24 (22.6); tarsus, 

 19-21 (19.8); middle toe, 14-15 (14.4).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Sierra Madre above 

 Victoria), Vera Cruz (Mirador; Jalapa; Buena Vista), San Luis Potosi 

 (Jilitla), Oaxaca (Santo Domingo), Tabasco (Teapa), Campeche 

 (Campeche), and Yucatan (Buctzotz; Tizimim; Temax). 



M[yiodynastes] audax insolens Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 332 (Mirador, 



Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Myiodynastes audax insolens Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 592; 2d ed., 1896, 

 613. 



a Five specimens. & Four specimens. 



