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Lapliyctes mclcnicholivus, Cabax. &. Heixe, Mus. Heiue. II, 1859, 76 (Brazil; excl. 

 syu. alho(jularis, Burm.). 

 Muscicapa clespotes, Light., Vorz. Doubl. 1823, 55. 

 Miiscicapa f areata, Snx, Av. Bras. II, 1825, 15, pi. 19. 



Tymnnus furcalus, Max., Beitr. Ill, 1831, 834. 

 Tyrannus cntdeHs, SwAixs., Quart. Jour. XX, 1826, 275 (Brazil). 



/?. couch I. 



Tyrannus couchi, Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 175 ("Nortlieasteru Mexico to Rio Grande"); 



ed. 1860, pi. 49, fig. 1; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 128.— ScL., Ibis, 1859, 439 



(Orizaba) ; Catal. 1862, 235, No. 1445 (Mexico).— Dressei:, Ibis, 1865,472 (com- 



Bion near Matamoras and Brownsville). 



Tyrannus melanclwUcus var. couchi, B. B. «fe R., Hist. N. Am. B. II, 1874, 329, pi. 43, 



fig. 7. 

 Tyrannus mcJanchoUcus couchi, Coues & Sexxett, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Gcog. Surv. 

 Ten-. IV, No. 1, 1878, 31 (Hidalgo, Texas ; common). 



'' Tyra)i)iusm€lancholicus,"SCT.. & Sal v., Ibis, 1859, 121 (Duenas, Guatemala; descr. eggs); 

 (?) P. Z. S. 1870, 837 (coast Honduras); Nom. Neotr. 1873, 53 (part).— Taylor, 

 Ibis, 1860, 113 (Houduras). — OwEX, Ibis, 1861, 63 (San Geronimo, Guat. ; descr. 

 nest).— Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. IX, 1869, 204 (Yucatan).— Sol., P. Z. S. 1870, 

 439 (Cordova, Jalapa, and Oaxaca, Mexico ; Guatemala). 



" Tyrauitu-'i satrapa" (part), Sol., Catal. 1882, 235, No. 1444 (sjjecs. ex Vera Paz and Ori- 

 zaba). 



CoucKs Flycatcher, Baird, 1. c. 



}'. satrapa, 



"Tyrannus melancholicus," TsciiUDi, Wiegm. Arcbiv, 1844, 12 (?) ; Faun. Per. Aves, 

 1844-46, 131 (?).— Cabax., in Schomb. Guiana, III, 1848, 700.— Scl., P. Z. S. 1855, 

 150 (Bogota) ; 1856, 141 (David, Chiriqui) ; 1858, 70, 457 ; 1859, 55 ; 1860, 92 

 (E. Ecuador); 281 (Babahoyo, Ecuador); 1867. 342 (Lima, Peru),— Baird, 

 B. N. Am. 1858, 176 (jiart ; specs, described from " Vera Cruz " and Panama). — 

 Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S. 1864, 360 (Isth. Panama) ; 1867, 279 (Mosquito coast), 578 

 (Para), 7.51 (Huallaga R., E. Peru); 1889, 189 (Nauta, Peru), 598, (Conispata, 

 Peru); Nom. Neotr. 1873, 53 (part).— Cass., Pr. Pbilad. Ac. 1860, 143, (New 

 Granada).— Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. VII, 1861, 295 (Panama); IX, 1869, 237 

 (Puna I.,W. Ecuador). — Taylor, Ibis, 1864,87 (Trinidad; Venezuela). — Sal- 

 A^ix, P. Z. S. 1870, 199 (Veragua).— FixsCH. ib. 572 (Trinidad).— Wyatt, Ibis, 

 1871, 334 (New Granada, up to 7,000 feet; iris brown). 



Laphyctcs sairapa, CABA3f. & Heine, Mus. Hein. II, Oct. 15, 1859, 77 (Guiana ; Caracas ; 

 ex "Muscicapa satrapa, Licbt., in Mus. Berol."). — Cabax., J. f. 0. 1861,251. 

 Tyrannns satra2)a. Scl., Catal. 1862, 235, No. 1444 (part ; specs, ex Tobago and Sta. 

 Jlarta and Bogota, New Granada). — SCL. & Salv., P. Z. S. 1854, 360 (Isth. Pa- 

 nama). 



" Tyrannus vcriicalis,'' Leot., Ois. Trinidad, 1886, 213 (nee Say). 



Sp. Ch. — Tail more or less decidedly emargiuate (deptli of the fork 

 .2()-.85 of au iiicli) ; live outer primaries more or less narrowed at the 

 ends by the emargination of the inner web (nearly obsolete in some 

 females and in the young). Wing, 4.25-4.85 ; tail, 3.70-4.50; bill, from 

 nostril, .G0-.77, width .40-.52, depth .24-.35; tarsus, .OO-.SO; middle 

 toe, .50-.G0.* Head cinereous, the auriculars perceptibly darker, the 

 malar region, e.liin, and throat paler (whitish in more northern specimens). 

 Back, scapulars, and sides of the breast greenish cinereous, the green 



* Forty-eiglit adults measured! 



