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472 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Tyrannm pipiri, ViEiix., Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 73, pi. 44.— Caban., J. f. O. 18.55, 

 478 (Cuba).— SCL., Catal. 1862, 236, No. 1451.— Guxdl., Eepert. 1835, 239 

 (Cuba).- SCL. & Salv., P. Z. S. 1836, 189 (Nauta, E. Ucayali, E. Peru!*); 

 1870, 837 (coast Honduras); Nom. Neotr. 1873, 53 ("Am. centr. et mericl. ad 

 Boliviam").— COUES, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1871, 26. 



Tyrannus intrepidus, Vieill., Enc. M^th. Ill, 1823, 849; Gal. Ois. I, 1824, 214, pi. 133.— 

 Swains., Philos. Mag. I, 1827, 368; Quart. Jour. XX, 1826, 274.— Sw. & Rich., 

 F. B. A. II, 1831, 137.— BOXAP., Comp. List, 1838, 24.— Woodii., Sitgr. Rep. 

 1853, 73.— ScL., P. Z. S. 1857, 232; 1858. 302 (Oaxaca); 1859, 383(Oaxaca; 

 Marcb, February), 439 ("whole of Mexico").- Scl. & Salv., Ibis, 1859, 120 

 (Guatemala).— Moore, ib. 55 (Honduras). — Sumichr., Mem. Bost. Soc. I, 

 1869, 557 (Vera Cruz). 

 Mijiar elms intrepidus, BuRM., Yerz. Mus. Hal. p. 46. 



Muscicapa animosa, LiciiT., Verz. Doubl. 1823, 54. 



Tyrannus Icitcogasto; Stephens, Gen. Zool. XIII, ii, 1826, 132. 



Tyrannus ricilMii, Swains., F. B. A. II, 1831, 138 (based on Vieill., Gal. Ois. pi. 133). 



King Bird; Bee Bird; Bee Martin, Vulg. 



Sp. Ch. — Wiug, 4.45-4.75; tail, 3.40-3.75; bill, from nostril, .50-57, 

 depth at base .24-27, width .37-.40 ; tarsus, .70-.78; middle toe, .55- 

 .00. Adult: Above black, becoming idnmbeous on the back, scapu- 

 lars, and rump; large wing-coverts and remiges edged with whitish; 

 upper tail-coverts bordered with white, and tail broadly tipped with the 

 same. Below pure white, strongly shaded with ash-gray across the jugu- 

 lum. Middle of the crown with a concealed patch of bright orange-red. 

 Young: Above dusky brownish slate, the wing-coverts bordered with 

 pale fulvous, the remiges with dull whitish ; upper tail-coverts bordered 

 with i)ale rusty; tail tipi^ed with i)ale fulvous, or brownish white. Be- 

 neath as in the adult, but jugulum tinged with pale fulvous. No colored 

 patch on vertex. 



Hab. — Temperate North America, except parts of the Pacific and Mid- 

 dle Provinces; Middle America, and Western South America to Bolivia; 

 Cuba and Bahamas. 



Eemarks. — No difference is perceptible, either in color or proportions, 

 between specimens from Tropical America and those from the United 

 States, although the former may, perhaps, average a tritie smaller. 

 Western examples are likewise identical with Eastern. The species 

 breeds at least as far south as the Isthmus of Panama, as is evident 

 from young specimens, in first plumage, in the National Collection, from 

 the line of the Panama Eailroad. 



5.— TYRANNUS CRASSIEOSTRIS. 



Tyrannus crassirostris. Swains., Quart. Journ. Sci. XX, 1828, 278; Pliilos. Mag. 1827, 

 368.— Scl., Ibis, 18.59, 439 (Mazatlan) ; Catal. 1831, 236, No. 1448 (Mazatlan, W. 

 Mexico).— Scl. & Salv., Ibis, 1860, 399 (Escuiutla).— Lawr., Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. No. 4, 1876, 28 (Chihuitan, Tehuantepec, and Los Cues, Oaxaca). 



* " Indistiuguisbable from Nortb American specimens." Said to liavc been seen by 

 D'Orbigny as far Soutb as Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia ! 



