BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 871 



Giiapiles; Jimenez; Guaj^abal; Pacuarito; Rio Frio; Pigres; La 

 Palma de Nicoya; Volcan de Miravalles), Nicaragua (Cliontales; 

 Oinetepe; Rio Escondido; Managua), and southern Honduras (Rio 



Segovia) . 



Tityra personata (not of Jardine and Selby) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 

 70, part (monogr.).— Cabanis, Journ. flir Orn., 1861, 252 (Costa Rica).— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 361 (Panama).— Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 149 (David, Panama); 1870, 199 (Calovevora and 

 Bugaba, Panama); Ibis, 1872, 318 (Chontales, Nicaragua).— Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 116 (San Jose, Guaitil, and Ban-anca, Costa Ptica).— 

 Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 309 (Costa Rica).— Boucard, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1878, 65 (Orosi, Costa Rica; habits).— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1882, 397 (La Palma de Nicoya, Costa Rica); vi, 1884, 393 (Ometepe, 

 Nicaragua; habits).— Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 322 (San Jose, Costa Rica; 

 descr. nest and eggs). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 507 (Rio 

 Escondido, Nicaragua; habits; notes; food).— Alfaro, Paginas IllustradavS, 

 i, 1904, 564 (Costa Rica; habits; descr. nest and eggs). 



[Tityra] personata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 56, part. 



Tityra semifasdata personata Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, ii, Sept. 20, 1900, 

 23 (Loma del Leon, Panama); iii, 1902, 40 (Boquete, Panama, 3,000 to 5,000 

 ft.). 



T[ityra] semifasdata /not Pachyrhynchus semifasdatus Spix) Cabanis, in Wieg- 

 mann's Archiv. fur Naturg., 1847, i, 239, part (Central America). 



T^rasfv/ci/asctata Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 330, part (Chontales 

 and Ometepe, Nicaragua; Cach6, Turrialba, and San Jose, Costa Rica; Calo- 

 vevora, Bugaba, and Lion Hill, Panama). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1890, 118, part (Panaman, Costa Rican and Nicaraguan 

 references and localities; Segovia R., Honduras). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 

 439 (Volcan de Miravalles, Costa Rica; notes). 



[Tityra] semifasdata Siiarpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 161, part. 



Tityra mexicana (not Psaris mecdcamis Lesson) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1856, 141, part (Nicaragua; Boquete, Panama). 



Tityra semifasdata costaricensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xix, 1906, 119 

 (Bonilla, e. Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



TITYRA SEMIFASCIATA PERSONATA (Jardine and Selby). 

 MEXICAN tityra. 



Similar to T. s. costaricensis, but decidedly larger; adult male with 

 the general gray color decidedly darker (no. 6 to no. 7 on back, etc., 

 about no. 9 on under parts) ;" adult female averaging decidedly paler 

 than that of T. s. costaricensis (back drab or broccoli brown to hair 

 brown, the pileum sometimes but little darker). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 196-224 (209); wing, 122.5-137.5 

 (128.5); tail, 67.5-79.5(73.1); exposed culmen, 23.5-26.5 (25.1); tar- 

 sus, 24.5-27.5 (26.2); middle toe, 17.5-20.5 (19.2).^ 



a The hinder part of pileum about the same color as the back of T. s. costaricensis. 

 b Twenty-six specimens. 



