BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 651 



ish olive or grayish brown ; tail deep grayish brown to dusky brown, the 

 outer webs of rectrices paler along edges; wings dark grayish brown 

 to dusk}^, llie middle and greater coverts margined terminally or 

 tipped with light olive or gra^^ish brown, the secondaries edged with 

 paler, the edgings broader and more whitish (sometimes yellowish 

 white or pale yellow) on inner secondaries; auricular region and sides 

 of neck grayish sooty; lores mixed light grayish and dusky; malar 

 region, chin, throat, and upper part of chest very })ale gray (about 

 no. 10); rest of under parts light yellow (deep primrose to light 

 canary yellow) ; axillars and under wing-coverts light yellow ; inner 

 webs of remiges edged with very pale grayish bufly; bill dusky brown 

 to brownish black; legs and feet dusky browni, the latter more 

 blackish. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 147; wing, 81; tail, 74; exposed cul- 

 men, 17.5; tarsus, 19.5; middle toe, 10.5.*^ 



Adultfemale.—ljengih (skins), 141-148 (144); wing, 72.5-81.5 (77); 

 tail, 72.5; exposed culmen, 17.5; tarsus, 16.5-19.5 (18); middle toe, 

 9.5-11 (10.3).'' 



Eastern Panama (Frijole and Lion Hill stations, Panama Rail- 

 way), and Colombia (Bogota; Bucaramanga; between Bucaramanga 

 and Ocana; Herradura; Minca, Santa Marta, Puebla Vieja, Palo- 

 mina, and San Miguel, Santa Marta), Ecuador (Esmeraldas; Palla- 

 tanga ; Sarayacu ; Quito ; Jima;Chimbo; Paramba; Balzar Mountains; 

 La Concepcion; Niebli; Intac; Gualea; Bugnac), northern Peru 

 (Maraynioc; Pumamarca; Paltaypampa; Tambillo; Huambo; Tamia- 

 pampa; Cutervo; Callacate), Venezuela (Merida) British Guiana 

 (Camacusa: Merume Mountains; Roraima), and Cayenne (I'Ouanary).'^ 



Myiarchus nigrinps Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loiid., 18(30, (58 (Pallatanga, w. 

 Ecuador; coll. P. L. Sclater), 295 (Esmeraldas, w. Ecuador); ("at. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 2:M (Pallatanga and Esmeraldas, w. Ecuador); Cat. Birds Brit. ]\Ins., 

 xiv, ] 888, 258 (Pallatanga, Esmeraldas, Quito, Jima, Balzar Mts. , and Sarayacu 

 Ecuador; Bogota, Minca, and Herradura, Colomliia; Panama). — Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y!, vii, 1862, 327 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.).— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 360 (Lion Hill; crit.); 1868, 168 (Ven- 

 ezAiela); 1875, 234 (Merida, VenezAiela).— Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 333 (Herra- 

 dura and bet. Ocana and Bucaramanga, Colombia). — CouES, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1872, 75 (crit.; Pallatanga, Esmeraldas, and Quito, Ecuador; Pana- 

 ma). — Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 539 (Maraynioc, Paltay- 

 pampa and Pumamarca, Peru); 1879, 235 (Tambillo, n. Peru): 1880, 203 

 (Cutervo and Callacate, Peru); 1882, 22 (Huambo and Tamiapanipa, Peru); 

 Orn. du Perou, ii, 1884, 324.— Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1880, 125 (Minca, 

 Santa Maria, 2,000 ft., Colombia); Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1889. 96 (Lion 

 Hill, Isthmus Panama; "Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Vene/Aiela, Guiana, and 

 Amazon valley"). — Taczanowski and Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1883, 559 (Chimbo, n. w. Ecuador); 1884, 297 (Bugnac, 6,000 ft., w. Ecuador).— 



« One specimen from Colombia (Palomina, Santa Marta). 

 &Two specimens from Colombia (Palomina, Santa Marta). 

 cl have not seen specimens from Venezuela, British Guiana, nor Cayenne. 



