BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 617 



[Myiarchus] crinitus Gundlach, Journ. liir Ovn., 1861, 328 (Cuba). — Coues, Key 



N. Am. Birds, 1872, 171. -Scl.\ter and Sai.vin, Xom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 52.— 



Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 143. 

 M{yiarchus\ crinihis Coues, Koy K. Am. Birds, 2d cd., 1884, 434: otli cd., i, 



1903, 518.— RiDGWAV, Man.'N. Am. Birds, 1887, 333. 

 [Myiarchus crimtiis] var. crinitus Baird, Brewer, and RiuciWAY, Hi.<l. X. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 331. 

 [ Myiarchus ainitus] a. crinitus Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 238. 

 Myiarchus crinitus crinitus Thayer and Bangs, Bull. IVIus. Comp. Zool., xlvi, 



Sept., 1905, 153 (Saboga I., Bay of Panama, Apr.). 

 M[yionaa-] mnitus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Ort., 1859, 73. 

 Myionax cnnitus Cabanis, Jour, fiir Orn., 1861, 250 (Costa Rica). 

 [Pyrocephalus] crinitus Gr.\y, Hand-list, i, 1869, 362, no. 5518. 

 [Muscicapa] ludoviciana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 934 (based on Tyran de la 



Louisiayie Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., iv, 583. 

 Tyrannus ludovicianus Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 75, \)\. 45. 

 Tyrnnnus irritabilis Vieillot, Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 847. 

 Muscicapa virginea Mijller, Syst. Nat. Suppl. 1776, 168 (based on PI. Enl. 569, 



fig. 1.) 

 Myiarchus cinerascens (not of Lawrence) Sclater and Salvix, Ibis, 1859, 121, 



part (Livingston, Guatemala). 

 Myiarchus crinitus boreus Bangs, Auk, xv, Apr., 1898, 179 (Scituate, Massa- 

 chusetts; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 

 [Myiarchus] boreus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 143. 

 Myiarchus crinitus residuus Howe, Contr. N. Am. Orn., i, May 21, 1902 (Ishto- 



poga Lake, Florida; coll. Howe-Shattuck). — Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 



xvii, 1904, 30 (monogr.). 



MYIARCHUS OBERI OBERI Lawrence. 

 OBER'S FLYCATCHER. 



Most like M. mexicanus mexicanus, but much darker above, wing 

 and tail averaging decidedly shorter I) tit bill longer; also resembling 

 M. tyranimlus "' but decidedly larger (especially the bill) and 

 coloration mtich darker. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Abcve deep to dark olive, passing into sepia 

 or clove brown on pileum, the upper tail-coverts tinged (especially 

 on margins) with rust}'; tail dusky grayish brown, the outer webs of 

 rectrices indistinctly edged with paler, the inner webs (except of 

 middle pair) with inner two-thirds (more or less) cinnamon-rufous; 

 wings dusky, the middle and greater coverts broadly ti})ped with light 

 grayish brown (sometimes tinged with cinnamon or rusty), seconda- 

 ries edged with still paler grayish brown (a])])r()aching dull whitish 

 on the innermost) the primaries and distal secondaries edged (except 

 terminally) with cinnamon or rusty; sides of head and neck (except 

 lores) grayish olive, gradually fading below into the light gray (about 

 no. 8 or no. 9) of chin, throat, and chest, the lores also light gray; 

 under parts of body, under tail-coverts, axillars, and under wing- 



aSee J). (ilO. 



