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TYRANNIC. 



vertical crest scarlet ; wings brown ; tail black, with a narrow pale 

 tip : beneath, throat white ; breast cinereous ; abdomen yellow ; 

 under wing-coverts pale yellow ; outer primaries acuminated ; tail 

 nearly squared ; bill and feet black : whole length 8*5 inches, wing 

 5 - 2, tail 4*8. Female similar. 



Hah. Southern California, Arizona, Texas, Mexico, and Guate- 

 mala. 



Readily distinguishable from the allied species T. verticalis by 

 the want of the conspicuous white outer web of the outer rectrix 

 and by the deeper ashy fore neck. 



a. Ad. sk. Los Nogales, Mexico (Baird). Sclater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Northern Mexico ( Ward). Sclater Coll. 



c. Ad. sk. Near City of Mexico. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



d. Ad. sk. Mexico (de Saussure). Sclater Coll. 

 e-g. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



h. S ad. sk. Duefias, Guatemala (Fraser). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i. 2 a d- sk. Salania, Guatemala {Salvia). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Tyrannus niveigularis. 



Tyrannus niveigularis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1800, p. 281, et 1880, p. 29, pi. id. ; 

 id. Cat. A. B. p. 237 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. p. 53 ; Tacz. F. Z. S. 

 1877, pp. 320, 753 (Peru) ; id. Orn. Per. ii. p. 329 ; Pid(/w. P. U.S. 

 N. M. i. p. 479 ; Perl, et Tacz. P. Z. S. 1885, pp. 118, 1 22 (Ecuador). 



Wing-end of Tyrannus niveigularis, from beneath. (P. Z. S. 1880, p. 29.) 



Above cinereous, with an olivaceous tinge on the lower back ; head 

 darker, with a concealed vertical crest of bright yellow ; wings and 

 tail black ; secondaries and wing-coverts edged with white : beneath, 



