86 Mr. E. C. Taylor on the Birds of the West Indies. 



J@2. Phyllomyias semifusca, Sclater's Cat. no. 1306. 

 Obtained in Trinidad. 



S^' Camptostoma imberbe, Sclater's Cat. no. 1310. 

 This little bird is not uncommon in Trinidad, where I obtained 

 two or three specimens, which differ so slightly from the speci- 

 men from Mexico figured in ' The Ibis ' (1859, p. 444, pi. 14. 

 f. 1) that Dr. Sclater does not think it necessary to make two 

 species of them, — though it seems unusual for so small a bird to 

 range from Mexico to Trinidad. 



64. Elainea pagana, Sclater's Cat. no. 1321. 

 Obtained in Trinidad. 



j85. Myiozetetes cayennensis, Sclater's Cat. no. 1342. 

 A common species on the coast of Venezuela, near Barcelona. 

 I never saw this bird in Trinidad, either alive or in collections. 



'^66. PiTANGUS RUFiPENNis, Sclatcr's Cat. no. 1361. 

 This species, Megarhynchus pitangua, and Tyrannus melancho- 

 licus are the most abundant of all the numerous Tyrants in Tri- 

 nidad, where the Creole name for the whole family is " Qu'est- 

 ce qu'il dit," from the cry of the three species named, which 

 exactly resembles that sentence, — on the principle of the names 

 ' Peewit ' and ' Kittiwake ' in England. All three species are very 

 common and very noisy, but Pitangus rufipennis is the com- 

 monest and the noisiest of the three. In the morning, espe- 

 cially, they sit on the top of low trees screaming out " Qu'est-ce 

 qu'il dit " to one another at the top of their voices. I found a nest 

 of this species in February ; it was very large and funnel-shaped, 

 and contained only one egg nearly ready to hatch. 



67. Myiodynastes audax, Sclater's Cat. no. 1368. 

 Not uncommon in Trinidad : its note is quite different from 

 that of the preceding species. 



j68. Megarhynchus pitangua, Sclater's Cat. no. 1375. 



Very common in Trinidad. I found it difficult to distinguish 

 this bird, at a distance, from Pitangus rufipennis, as the two 

 species are very similar in size, colour, voice, and habits. 



69. Pyrocephalus rubineus, Sclatei*'s Cat. no. 1395. 



1 found this very pretty bird tolerably abundant both at Ciu- 



