FAMILY TYRANNIDAE 4O3 



Both specimens have the maximum amount of buff on throat that 

 apparently marks the first ackilt pkimage. 



The race minor appears to range in the Subtropical Zone of the 

 Andes of Colombia, south to central Ecuador. It was described (in 

 French) from specimens collected by Stolzman : "une paire de 

 Machay et de Mapoto," Ecuador, collected in November 1883 and 

 January 1884. Mapoto, according to notes furnished by the collector, 

 was a hacienda at an elevation of 2130 meters on the upper Rio 

 Pastaza between Banos and Canelos ; Machay was another hacienda 

 a little lower on the same trail, at 1325 meters. This places both 

 localities on the eastern face of the mountains in the Province of 

 "Napo-Pastaza." 



Kreuger (Ool. Rec, vol. 43, no. 2, May 1969, p. 28) describes 

 eggs from Venezuela of the closely related race M. c. cinerascens as 

 "salmon-cream with many small red-brown spots and dots nearly 

 forming a ring at the larger ends." He lists the average size of three 

 as 23.7 X 19.4 mm. 



Stolzman and Domaniewski. in a list of types in the Polish Museum 

 of Natural History (Ann. Zool. Mus. Pol. Hist. Nat., vol. 6, June 1, 

 1927, p. 146) cites as "Typus : no. P. 2414 ? 28 XI 1883. Machay 

 (5000'), sur Rio Pastaza, Ecuador or." They say that two males 

 collected by Stolzman at Mapoto and Surupata were taken to Rostoff 

 during the war, and had not yet been returned. Hellmayr (Cat. 

 Birds Amer.. pt. 5, 1927, p. 128) says merely "type examined" with 

 no further statement. 



MEGARYNCHUS PITANGUA MEXICANUS (Lafresnaye) : Boat- 

 billed Flycatcher, Pico de Canoa 



Scaphorhynchns iiicxicanus Lafresnaye, Rev. Mag. Zool, vol. 3, October 1851, 

 p. 473. (Mexico.) 



Medium size ; yellow underneath ; dusky head with prominent white 

 line over eye, and large, broad bill. 



Description. — Length 205-235 mm. Bill large, long, and broad, 

 with prominently hooked tip. Adult (sexes alike), crown and side of 

 head dull black, in some faintly grayer ; center of crown with a large 

 concealed spot of yellow and rufous, these feathers white at base; 

 forehead grayish white ; a broad white superciliary stripe that becomes 

 wider at the nape ; back, scapulars, and rump greenish olive, varying 

 somewhat in depth of greenish cast ; wings and tail grayish brown, 

 secondaries edged lightly with grayish white, primaries and rectrices 

 with cinnamon ; chin and upper throat white ; rest of lower surface, 



