21. MTIODIOCTES. 



431 



of the inner web : " bill black, feet hazel-bro-wn " (Salvin). Total 

 length 6 inches, culmen 0'6, wing 2-9, tail 2-6, tarsus 0*95. 

 Hab. Mexico and Guatemala. 



a. Ad. sk. 



b. Ad. St. 



c. 2 ad. sk. 



d,e. cJ $ ad. sk. 



/. $ ad. sk. 

 I/. cJ ad. sk. 



h, i. cS $ ad. sk. 



Jalapa, Mexico (Z)e Oca). 



Cordova. 



Santa Efij^enia, Tehuantepec, 



Dec. (F. Sumichrast). 

 Vok-an de Agua, above San 



Diego, Guatemala, Nov. 



1873 (O. Salvin). 

 Volcan de Agua, Nov. (0. S.). 

 BaiTauco-Houdo, Guatemala, 



Oct. 20 (O. S.). 

 Altonango, Guatemala, Sept.9 



(0. S.). 



Sclater Collection. 

 M. A. Salle [C.]. 

 Salvin-Godmau Coll. 



Sclater Collection. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



21. MYIODIOCTES 



Tj-pe. 



Wilsonia, Bp. Comp. List B. Bur, Sr A". Amer, p. 23 

 (1838, nee Brotvn). 



Myiodioctes, Audub. Syn. p. 48 (1839) M. mitratus. 



Myioctonus, Cab. Mus. Hein. Th. i. p. 18 (1850) .... M. mitratus. 



Head of Myiodioctes mitratus. 



* Myiodioctes mixutus. 



Muscicapa minuta, Wih. Amer. Orn. vi. p. 62, pi. 50. fig. 6 (1812) ; Avdub. 



£. Amer. pi. 434. fig. 2 ; id. Orn. Biogr. v. p. 291 (1839) ; id. Syn. 



p. 44 (1839) ; id. L. Amer. ii. p. 238, pi. 67. 

 Sylvia iniuuta, B]}. Jcv.rn. I'hilad. Acad. iv. p. 197 (1824). 

 Wilsonia minuta, B2j. Cmiq). List B. Ev.r. ^- N. Amer. p. 23 (1838). 

 Setupbaga minuta, Kiehards. Eep. Brit. Assoc. 1836-37, p. 172. 

 Syhania puniilia, ISv.tt. Man. 1843, p. 334. 

 Mviodioctes minutus, Baird, B. A. Amer. p. 293 (1858) ; id. Beview Amir. 



'B. p. 241 (1865) ; Baird, Briuer. ^- Eidgu: Hist. A. Avier. B. i. p. 316 



(1874) ; Bidgw. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 21, p. 19 (1881). 

 Jlyiodiocte.s ? minutus, Coves, B. Color. Vail. p. 326(1878). 



Hab. Eastern United States. 



•' The above synonymy is nearly .nil mere compilation, the several authors, ei- 

 eepting Wilson, Kuttall. and Audubon, not claiming to know the species. The 

 existence of any such bird is doubtful, and its rel'erence Xo Myiodioctes by Baird 

 and others is wholly ccujectural. Bonaparte first put it here, i.e. in his genuB 

 WiUonia. but in I'&oO queerly identified it vrith Emindonax flavivtntris of 

 Baird. The history of the bird begins with a misunderstandiug between Wilson 

 and Audubon, and the whole record from that day to this is a tissue of surmises." 

 — Coues, I. c. 



