06. PYEOCEPHALTTS. 



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2. Pyocephalus mexicanus. 



Tyrannula coronata, Sw. Phil. May. 1827, i. p. 367 (Mexico). 

 Pyrocepbalus rubineus, Cass. B. Calif, p. 127, pi. 18 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1856, p. 296; Baird, B. N. Am. p. 201. 

 Pyrocepbalus mexicanus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 45, 56, 366, et 1864, 



p. 176 (Mexico) ; id. Ibis, 1859, p. 442 ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 227 ; 



Cab. et Hein. Mas. Hein. ii. p. 68 ; Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 399 



(Guatemala) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 51 ; Later. Ann. Lye, N. Y. ix. 



p. 201 (N. Yucatan) ; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 448 (Yucatan). 

 Pyrocephalus rubineus, var. mexicanus, Baird, Breiv., et Ridyw. N. 



A. B. ii. p. 387. 

 Pyrocepbalus rubineus mexicanus, Merrill, P. U. S. N. M. i. p. 141 



(Texas) ; Coues, Key N. A. B. 1884, p. 444 ; Ridyw. P. U. S. N. 



M. v. p. 542 (California) ; id. Man. N. A. B. p. 345. 



Above dark cinereous ; wings sometimes with slight whitish 

 edgings ; crested head and body beneath scarlet ; bill and feet black : 

 whole length 5-3 inches, wing 3-3, tail 2-5. Female. Above cinereous, 

 with slight whitish edgings to the wings: beneath dirty white, 

 striated with cinereous on the breast ; belly more or less suffused 

 with rosaceous. 



Hub. South California, Mexico, Yucatan, Belize, and Guatemala. 



Perhaps hardly more than a subspecies of P. rubineus, but gene- 

 rally recognizable by its larger size and rather lighter back. 



