218 TYKANNID^. 



inner margins of wing-feathers pale buffy rufous ; bill dark brown ; 

 feet blackish : whole length 5 - 2 inches, wing 3, tail 2-6. Female 

 similar. 



Uah. Colombia and Peru. 



Peruvian specimens of this species have the under surface rather 

 darker and more rufous, and the red colour on the tail more 

 extended. 



a. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. (Type 



of the species.) 

 6. Ad. sk. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Antioquia, U. S. C. (Salmon). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. 5 ad. sk. Tambillo, Peru (Stolzmann). Sclater Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Cosnipata, Peru (Whitely). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



5. Empidochanes salvini, sp. nov. 

 Empidochanes poecilurus ?, Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 298. 



Above dark cinereous ; wings blackish, with slight paler edgings 

 to the wing-coverts and external secondaries ; tail blackish, with 

 inner webs of the lateral rectrices sometimes more or less tinged 

 with rufous : beneath pale cinereous, whitish on the throat and 

 middle of the belly ; crissum and under wing-coverts ochraceous ; 

 bill blackish ; feet dark brown : whole length 5*6 inches, wing 2 - 8, 

 tail 2-6. Female similar. 



Hah. Venezuela and British Guiana. 



An example from Caracas (Levraud) is in the Paris Museum. 



Mr. Salvin has not ventured to separate this form from E. poeci- 

 lurus, and I have some hesitation in doing so. One of the specimens 

 from Roraima has the rufous colour well developed on the inner 

 webs of the lateral tail-feathers, and unquestionably shows a tran- 

 sition towards E. poecilurus. But I think the Roraima bird may 

 fairly be separated by the cinereous colour below and rather darker 

 plumage above. 



a, b. S a d.; c, d. Roraima, Brit. Guiana Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2 ad. sk. ( Whitely). (Types of the species.) 



e,f. <S ad. sk. Roraima, Brit. Guiana Sclater Coll. 

 ( Whitely). 



68. MITREPHANES. „ 



Type. 



Mitvepkoms, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p. 45 _ M. pheeocercus. 



Mitrephanes, Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. CI., vii. p. 55 



(1882) M. phseocercus. 



Mitrephanes is a form near to Empidonax, but with a crested 

 head, and the bill narrower and more depressed, and the wings and 

 tail proportionately longer. It is mostly restricted to Central 

 America from South Mexico to Panama, but one species is said to 

 occur in Peru. 



