BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 599 



Pacific coast district of United States, in California (west of the 

 Sierra Nevada) and southwestern Oregon (Umpqua valley; Salem); 

 thence southward to Cape San Lucas district, Lower California, east- 

 ward tlii-ough southern California (north, east of Sierra Nevada, to 

 Death Valley, Panamint Valley, and Argus Range), southern Arizona, 

 and southern New Mexico to western Texas (Spring Creek, Tom Green 

 County; San Angelo), and southward over whole of Mexico, except 

 humid Atlantic coast district and Yucatan, to Chiapas (Chicharros) ; 

 occasional in winter in Costa Rica (San Jose).'' Mexican localities 

 are, in part, as follows: Sonora (Hermosilla; Espia). Cliihuahua 

 (Colonia Pacheco; Colonia Garcia). Nuevo Leon (Calderito; Santa 

 Catarina). Queretaro (Cadereyto). Guanajuato (Moro Leon; Tupa- 

 ataro). Sinaloa (Escuinapa; Mazatlan; Presidio near Mazatlan). 

 Jalisco (Atemajac; Ocotlan). Michoacan (La Salada; Morelia). 

 Morelos (Cuernavaca) . Mexico (Valley of Mexico ; Chimalpa ; Coapa ; 

 Mexicalcmgo ; Ixtapalapa*; Cuihuacan). Puebla (Atlixco; Rio de la 

 Huexotitla). Vera Cruz (Orizaba; Texolo; Cordova; Buena Vista). 

 Oaxaca (Cinco Senores; Tehuantepec) . Guerrero (Vente de Zopilote). 

 Chiapas (Chicharros) . ^ 



Tyrannula nigricans Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., i, May, 1827, 367 (Mexico). — 

 Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 24. 



T[yronnula] nigricans Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, ]850, 189 (Mexico; w. North 

 America). 



Myiarchus nigricans (not of Cabanis, 1845) Duges, La Naturaleza, i, 1869, 141 

 (Guanajuato). 



M[yiobius] nigricans Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 249. 



Myiobius nigricans Gambel, Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., i, 1847, 39 (California; 

 habits). 



Mxiscicapa nigricans AvDVBON , Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 302, pi. 474; Synopsis, 1839, 41; 

 Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 218, pi. 60. 



Tyrannus nigricans Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 2d ed., i, 1840, 326. 



Sayornis nigricans Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 296 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz); 1857, 127 (San Jose, California); 1859, 383 (Cinco Senores, Oaxaca); 

 1864, 175 (Valley of Mexico); Ibis, 1859, 438 (Cordova, etc.; crit.); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 200; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 33.— Baird, Rep. Pacific 

 R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 183; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 134; Rep. U. S. and 

 Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 8 (Espia and Cadereita, n. Mexico). — 

 Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1859, 106 (Rio Mimbres, New Mexico). — 

 SuMicHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 557 (temperate and alpine 

 regions. Vera Cruz). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 319.— Coues, Check List, 

 1873, no. 251. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 340, pi. 45, fig. 1.— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 285 (Mazat- 

 lan). — Henshaw, Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875,347 (s. Arizona and New 

 Mexico; habits). — Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 25 (Tehuan- 



« Specimens in collection of Museo Nacional de Costa Rica and in collection of 

 United States National Museum. 



b The specimen referred to by Mr. Nelson as from the Plains of Colima unques- 

 tionably is not from there, ]>ut, like a number of other specimens from the same collec- 

 tion bearing the same locality name, almost certainly came from California. 



