60. MTIODTNASTES. 185 



3. Myiodynastes audax. 



Le Gobe-inouche tackete de Cayenne, Daub. PL Enl. 453. fig. 2. 



Muscicapa audax, Gm. S. N. i. p. 934. 



Tyrannus audax, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 846. 



Scaphorhynchus audax, Cab. in Schumb. Guian. iii. p. 699. 



Megarhynchus audax, Hein. Journ. f. Orn. 1859, p. 342. 



Myiodynastes audax, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 45 ; id. Cat. A. B. 

 p. 223 ; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 74 ; Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 

 p. 86 ; Pels. Orn. Eras. p. 112 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 578, 

 1868, p. 168, 1875, p. 237. et 1879, p. 514 ; iid. Nomencl. p. 50 ; 

 Tacz. P. Z. 8. 1877, p. 326 ; id. Orn. Per. ii. p. 289 ; Salv. et 

 Godtn. Ibis, 1879, p. 201 ; Perl. J. f. O. 1884, p. 303 ; Salv. Ibis, 

 1885, p. 296 (Br. Guiana) ; Tacz. et Berl. P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 91, 

 114 ; Ridgw. Man. N. A. B. p. 332. 



"Megarhynchus regius, Tiiunb." Hein. Journ. f. Om. 1859, p. 342. 



Above greyish, densely covered -with black shaft-spots ; head with 

 a concealed crest of bright yellow ; lores and eye-region black ; 

 wings blackish, primaries slightly margined with rufous ; wing- 

 coverts and secondaries edged with whitish ; tail blackish, with 

 more or less broad margins both on the inner and outer webs of 

 bright ferruginous : beneath whitish, slightly tinged with yellowish 

 on the breast, flanks, and under wing-coverts, and varied, especially 

 on the breast, upper belly, and flanks, by numerous long blackish 

 shaft-spots; bill dark brown, pale at the base; feet blackish: 

 whole length 7*5 inches, wing 4, tail 3-2. 



Hub. Venezuela, Guiana, Cayenne, and Amazonia. 



Generally similar to M. nobilis, but darker above, with broader 

 shaft-stripes below, and with more black on each side of the shafts 

 in the tail-feathers. But the amount of rufous on the tail-feathers 

 is by no means a constant character. 



a. 2 ad.sk. Pilar, Venezuela (Goering). Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Trinidad. Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Tobago {Kirk). Sclater Coll. 



d. 2 a d- sk. Bartica Grove, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



(Whitely). 



e. Ad. sk. Cayenne (Jelski). Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



f. Ad. sk. Cayenne. Sclater CoD. 



g. Ad. sk. Barra do Rio Negro (Katterer). Sclater Coll. 



h. $ jr. sk. Yquitos, Upper Amazons Salvin-Godrnan Coll. 



( Wliitehj). 



4. Myiodynastes solitarrus. 



Chorreado todo, Azar. Apunt. ii. p. 145. 



Tyrannus solitarius, Vieill. Nouv. Diet. xxv. p. 88 ; id. Enc. Meth. 



p. 853. 

 Tyrannus audax, Max. Beitr. iii. p. 889; d'Orb. Voy., Ois. p. 305. 

 Scaphorhynchus audax, Tse/i. Faun. Per., Aves, p. 149 ; Hart I . Ind. 



Azar. p. 13; Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 469. 

 Myiodynastes solitarius, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 43 ; id. Cat. A. B. 



p. 223 ; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 74 ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. 



