•BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 6()7 



Nicaragua); ix, 1868, 114 (Barranca, San Jose, Turrialba, and Grecia, Costa 

 Rica); ix, 1869, 201 (Yucatan); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 26 (Gui- 

 chicovi, Chihuitan, and Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). — Sclater and Salvin. 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 360 (Panama; crit.). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1869, 308 (Costa Rica).— Salvin, Ibis, 1872, 318 (Chontales, Nicara- 

 gua). — Nehrkorn, Journ. fiir Orn., 1881, 67 (Yucatan; descr. eggs). 



[Mcgarhynchus] mexicanus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 

 144 (Mexico). 



Mcgarhynchus pitangua maicana Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. ('Iu1>, ill. Jan. 30, 



1902, 37 (Bofiuete, Panama, 4,000 ft.). 



}fcgarhynchits pitangua 7nexicanus Bakgs, Bull. ^fus. Comp. Zool.. xxxix. no. 6, 



1903, 148 (Ceiba arid Yaruca, Honduras^ 



[Mcgarhynchus] pitangua (not Lardus pitangva Linnajus) Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 50, part.— Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 130, part. 



Mcgarhynchus pitanguaBovcARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 63 (San Jose, Costa 

 Rica); 1883, 448 (Yucatan; habits).— Ridgm' ay, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 

 1883, 500 (San Jose, Costa Rica).— Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 251 (San Jose; 

 descr. nest and eggs). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 630 

 (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 438 (Volcan de Mira- 

 valles, Costa Rica).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H.. viii, 1896, 283 (Chichen: 

 Itza, Yucatan). — Alfaro, Paginas lUustradas, i, 1904, 504 (Costa Rica- 

 habits; descr. nest and eggs). 



(?) TyrannxLS eximius Paul von Wurttemberg, Naumannia, 1852, 46 (inletterto 

 J. Hartlaub). 



MEGARYNCHUS PITANGUA CANICEPS Ridgway. 

 JOTTyS BOAT-BILLED FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to M. p. mexicanus, but pileum sooty gray or deep mouse 

 gray instead of sooty blackish, and color of back, etc., much grayer 

 olive. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 242; wing, 125.5; tail, 96.5; exposed 

 culmen, 32.5; tarsus, 20; middle toe, I?.'* 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 230; wing, 125; tail, 94; exposed 

 culmen, 32.5; tarsus, 21; middle toe, 18. « 



Western Mexico (Barranca Veltran, Jalisco). 



Mcgarhynchus pitangua (not Lanius pitangva Linnaeus) Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., xvi, 1894, 783 (Barranca Veltran, s. Jalisco).— (?) Miller (\V. D. ), Bull. 



Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 1905, 358 (Mount Juan LisiaiTaga, Sinaloa). 

 Megarynchus pitangua caniceps Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 1906, 116 



(Barranca Veltran, Jalisco, Mexico; coll. V. S. N. M.). 



Genus CORYPHOTRICCUS Ridgway. 



Cnryphotriccus Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 1906, 115. (Ty])e, Pitungus 

 aJbovittntus Lawrence.) 



Small Tyrannida^ (wing 77-82 mm.), similar to the smaller species 

 of Pitangus (P. lictor), but bill relatively much shorter anil l)ro&der 

 (exposed culmen little, if any, longer than tarsus and much less than 



o One specimen. 



