712 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female. — Similar to tlie adult male but orange crown-patch 

 usually smaller and tips of outer primaries indistinctly attenuated; 

 length (skins), 234-260 (241); wing, 123.5-131 (12S.4);' tad, 90.5-95 

 (93.2); exposed culmen, 31-36 (33.4); tarsus, 21-22.5 (22); middle 

 toe, 17.5-18.5 (18).« 



Island of Cuba (including Isle of Pines), Greater Antilles; more 

 southern Bahama Islands (Great Inagua; North Caicos; East Caicos; 

 Grand Caicos); accidental on Mujeres Island, Yucatan. 



(?) Tyrannus matutimts, Vieillot, Tabl. Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 850, part. 



Tyrannus magnirostris (not of Swainson, 1831) D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. 

 Nat. Cuba, Ois., 1840, 80, pi. 13 (Cuba).— Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 xi, 1866, 66 (Inagua, Bahamas). — Gundlach, Journ. ftir Orn., 1872, 421; 

 Orn. Cub., 1893, SO.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 469 (monogr.). 

 —Cory, Birds Bahama I., 1880, 99; Auk, iii, 1886, 243; viii, 1891, 297 (Caicos 

 and Inagua, Bahamas); Birds West Ind., 1889, 130; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 

 1892, 108 (North Caicos, Grand Caicos, East Caicos, and Great Inagua islands, 

 Bahamas; Cuba; Isle of Pines). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 

 273 (Cuba; Mujeres I., Yucatan). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ani., 

 Aves, ii, 1889, 103.— Salvin, Ibis, 1889, 363 (Mujeres I., Yucatan, Feb.).— 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 302 (San Pablo, s. Cuba). 



T[yran7ius] magnirostris Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 192. — Ridgway, Man. 

 N. Am. Birds, 1887, 328. 



[Tyrannus] magnirostris Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 365, no. 5558. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 53.— Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 16. 



Melittarchus magnirostris Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1855, 447. — Brewer, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc, vii, 1860, 307.— Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i. 1865, 

 238; Journ. fiir Orn., 1872, 421 (Cuba; habits). 



M[elittarckns] magnirostris Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 80 (Cuba). 



[Melittarchus] magnirostris Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 328 (Cuba). — Heine 

 and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 147. 



Tyrannus cubensis Richmond, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 330 (to replace Tyrannus 

 magnirostris D'Orbigny, preoccupied). — Bangs and Z.-vppey, Am. Nat., 

 xxxix, 1905, 207 (Isle of Pines; food.) 



[Tyranmis] cubensis Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901. 149. 



TYRANNUS CRASSIROSTRIS Swainson. 

 THICK-BILLED KINGBIED. 



Adult male. — Pileum deep grayish brown, the crown with a con- 

 cealed patch of lemon or canary yellow, underlaid posteriorly and 

 laterally by white; hindneck lighter and much more grayish brown; 

 back, rump, scapulars, and lesser wdng-coverts plain grayish olive; 

 upper tail-coverts grayish brown, margined, more or less distinctly, 

 with more rusty brown or cinnamon; tail deep grayish brown, the 

 rectrices edged (rather indistinctly) with paler; wings deep grayish 

 brown, the middle and posterior lesser coverts narrowly margined 



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