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50. TYRANNUS MELANCHOLICUS SATRAPA (Lichtenstein). 



CROWNED KINGBIRD. 



Common around El Valle, and associating- with tiie fork-tailc(i Uy. 

 catc'lier in ieedin<^- on the seeds of the copey. 



51. MYIARCHUS TYRANNULUS (Muller). 

 BLACK-BILLED I'ETCHAKV. 



Common at all points on the island. At El Valle, on July 10, I 

 found in a hollow in a small tree in an open field a nest of this species 

 (containing- four fresh eggs. They cannot be distinguished from those 

 of our great-crested flycatcher (J/, criiiitus), and as is the case with our 

 bird tlie nest contained the cast skin of a snake. 



[Six specimens are represented in the collection. These are referable 

 to ilf. fyrannulus, rather than to Mr. Hartert's form breripennis, — 

 C. W. K.] 



52. SUBLEGATUS GLABER, Sclater and Salvin. 



VENEZLELAN FLYCATCHEl^'. 



Common in the scrub along the coast. 



[Three specimens differ from Venezuelan and Trinidad birds only in 

 being slightly snmller. — C. W. R.] 



Family FORMICARIID^. 



53. THAMNOPHILUS DOLIATUS (Linnaeus). 

 BARRED ANT SHRIIvE. 



Common in all parts of the island. Some of their notes resemble 

 the distant cawing of crows. When scolding at an intruder, both male 

 and female elevate their crests, which seem to spring just in rear of 

 their nostrils and not from the crown of their heads, as in other birds. 



[The specimens collected do not differ from tliose of the mainland or 

 of Tobago. A female, apparently adult, has narrow subterminal black 

 edges on the tertiaries, greater and primary wing-coverts, differing in 

 this way from the numerous other females in our series. — C. W. R.] 



54. FORMICIVORA INTERMEDIA, Cabanis. 

 INTERMEDIATE ANT WREN. 



Common and often associated with the spine-tails, creeping about 

 among dead brush and leaves. The young nuiles have at first the 

 plumage of the females and their breasts gradually become black in the 

 same manner as the males of our black-tiiroated green warblers. I 

 found this bird abundant at Laguayra. 



[The Margaritan specimens differ very slightly from those from 

 Laguayra in having a slightly longer bill. — C. W. R.] 

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