BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 621 



Islands of Ariiba, Curasao, and Bonaire, Dutch West Indies. 



Myiarchus brevipennis Hartert, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iii, Dec. 1, 1892, p. xii 

 (Islands of Aruba, Curasao, and Bonaire, Dutch West Indies; coll. Tring 

 Mus.?); Ibis, 1893, 123 (reprint), 298 (crit.), 318 (Curasao), 328 (Bonaire); 

 Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, .300 (Aruba, Cura(;-ao, and Bonaire; crit.). 



[Myiarchus] brevipennis Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 144. 



MYIARCHUS MEXICANUS MEXICANUS (Kaup). 

 MEXICAN CRESTED FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to J/, crinitus, hut larger; color of upper parts much grayer 

 (the pileum browner), gray of throat and chest and yellow of al)do- 

 men, etc., much paler, an i inner webs of rectrices with a broad stripe 

 of dusk}" grayish brown next to shaft. 



Adults {sexes aliJce^. — Pileum broccoli brown, the feathers slightly 

 darker centrally; rest of upper parts gra^nsh olive, grayer on hind- 

 neck, the upper tail-coverts browner, with margins still browner or 

 somewhat rusty; tail deep grayish brown, the outer webs of rectrices 

 passing into lighter grayish brown on edges, the inner webs dusky 

 gra^^ish brown next to shaft, otherwise cinnamon rufous — the dusky 

 brown occu])ying sometimes more than inner half of the inner web on 

 lateral rectrix but usualh^ much less; wings dusky grayish brown, the 

 middle and greater coverts broadly tipped with pale grayish brown, 

 the greater coverts and secondaries edged with the same (more 

 whitish, the edgings broader, on inner secondaries), the basal half 

 (more or less) of primaries narrowly edged with cinnamon-rufous; 

 sides of head and neck light gray (the latter and the auricular region 

 slighth' tinged with brown, gradualh' fading below into the pale gray 

 (about no. 10) of chin, throat, and chest; under parts of body, under 

 tail-coverts, axillars, and under wing-coverts pale (primrose) yellow; 

 inner webs of remiges broadly edged with pale cinnamon-rufous; bill 

 brownish black, more brownish basally, especially on mandible; iris 

 brown; legs and feet brownish black. 



Adult male.—hengih (skins), 199-218 (208) ; wing, 99-106.5 (102.3) ; 

 tail, 89.5-97.5(93.3) ; exposed culmen, 20.5-22.5 (21.5) ; tarsus, 21.5-24 

 (23) ; middle toe, 13.5-15.5 (14.3).° 



Adult female. —Length (skins), 194-213 (202); wing, 96-103 (99.8); 

 tail, 85-93.5 (89.6); exposed culmen, 20-21 (20.6); tarsus, 22-24 

 (22.8); middle toe, 13.5-15 (14.2).* 



Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas (Fort Brown and Fort Clark) 

 and southward through eastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas 

 (Mier; Linares; China; Soto la Marina; Tampico; Alta Mira), Xuevo 

 Leon (Monterey), Coahuila (Sabinas), Vera Cruz (Cordova; Antigua; 



o Ten specimens from Texas. 

 b Seven specimens (four from Texas, two from Nuevo Leon, one from Vera Cruz). 



