BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 815 



tail, 91-97.5 (94) ; exposed ciilmen, 21.5-22.5 (21.8) ; tarsus, 22.5-24.5 

 (23.2); middle toe, 14-15.5 (14. 6). « 



Adultfe male. —Length, (skins), 200-20S (204) ; wing, 102-103 (102.5) ; 

 tail, 91.5-97 (94.3); exposed ciilmen, 21-22 (21.5); tarsus, 23.5-24 

 (23.8); middle toe, 13.5-14 (13.8).'^ 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Tyrannns rrinitus (not Muscicapa crinita Linnyeiis) Gosse, BirfLs Januiica, 1847, 

 186. 



Myiarchus ralidus Cabanis, Wicginann's Arcliiv. fiir Naturg., 1847, i, 351 

 (Jamaica). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 76; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 232; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 252 (Moneague and near Spanishlown, 

 Jamaica). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 199. — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1863, 288.— Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1872, 62.— Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 331. — Salvin, Cat. 

 Strickland Coll., 1882, 315.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 237; Birds West Ind., 1889, 

 124; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 13, 130.— Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 177. 



[Myiarchus] validus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 52. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885, 15.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 144. 



MlyiarcJms] validus Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 107. 



Myiarchus vallidus Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 108. 



M[]jionax] validus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 73, footnote. 



[Pyrocephaliis] validus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 362, no. 5520. 



Hylonax validus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xviii, Sept. 2, 1905, 210. 



Tj/rarmttZaf/ossw Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 189 (Jamaica; based on Tyran- 

 nus crinitus Gosse, Birds Jam., 186). 



Tyr[annula] gossii Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1851, 51 (crit.). 



Genus SIRYSTES Cabanis and Heine. 



Sirystesc Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Oct., 1859, 75. (Type, Muscicapa 

 sibilator Vieillot.) 



Similar to Lipavguf^, but without serrations on upper portion of 

 planta tarsi, bill relatively broader at base, and coloration very dif- 

 ferent . 



Bill typically Tyrannine, much shorter than head, wedge-shaped in 

 vertical profile (lateral margins nearly straight), much broader than 

 deep at anterior end of nostrils; exposed culmen much longer than 

 middle toe without claw, but decidedly shorter than tarsus, straight 

 or nearly so to near tip, where rather abruptly decurved and moder- 

 ately uncinate; gonys a little shorter than distance from nostril to tip 

 of maxilla but decidedly longer than mandibular rami, straight or 

 very faintly convex; maxillary tomium straight or very faintly sinu- 

 ated, distinctly notched subterminally. Nostril rather large, roimd- 

 ish or obliquely broadly oval, non-operculate, mostly exposed. Kicl^al 

 bristles distinct but not strong; latero-frontal bristles distinct, slender, 

 and arched, extending much beyond nostrils; feathers of cliin with 



a Five specimens. & Two specimens. C' 2ipvdTT/i=Sihi\a.tor, von 6tpv%oo (zischen)." 



