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throat and breast white, the latter with a slight greyish tinge ; abdo- 

 men and under wing-coverts pale sulphur-yellow ; outer primaries 

 slightly acuminated ; tail squared ; bill and feet black : whole length 

 7 inches, wing 4*2, tail 3"2. 

 Hub. Western Ecuador. 



5. Tyrannus crassirostris. 



Tyrannus crassirostris, Sw. Quart. Journ. Sc. xx. p. 278 ; id. Phil. 

 Mag. 1827. i. p. 368 ; Scl. Ibis, 1859, p. 439 ; id. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 19 

 (W. Mexico) ; id. Cat. A. B. p. 236 ; Scl. et Salv. Ibis, 1860, 

 p. 399 (Guatemala) ; iid. Nomencl. p. 53 ; Lawr. Bull. U.S. N. M. 

 no. 4, p. 28 (Oaxaca) ; Bidgw. P. U.S. N. M. i. p. 472 ; id. Man. 

 N. A. B. p. 329. 



Muscicapa giiatho, Licht. in Mus. Berol. 



Melittarchus crassirostris, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 80 ; iid. 

 J.f. O. 1855, p. 478. 



Megarhynchus crassirostris, Finscli, Abh, not. Bremen, 1870, p. 329. 



Above dull brownish cinereous, sometimes with a slight olivaceous 

 tinge ; cap darker, with a concealed yellow vertical crest ; wings 

 and tail brownish : beneath, throat white ; breast with a slight 

 cinereous tinge ; abdomen and under wing-coverts pale sulphur- 

 yellow ; bill and feet blackish ; outer primaries slightly attenuated ; 

 tail nearly square : whole length 8-5 inches, wing 5-1, tail 4. 

 Female similar. 



Hab. "Western Mexico and Guatemala. 



The huge bill separates this bird from the other continental species, 

 and the yellow belly from the rest of the section Melittarchus. 



a, b. $ 5 ad. sk. Mazatlan, W. Mexico (For- Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 rer). 



c. Ad. sk. Mazatlan, W. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



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



e. rf ad. sk. Caooprieto (Tekuantepec), Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Mexico (Sumichrast). 



f. g. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



k. 2 ad. sk. Escuintla, Guatemala (Sal- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



vin). 



6. Tyrannus griseus. 



Le Tyran, Daub. PI. Fnl. 537. 



Tyrannus dominicensis, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 394, pi. 38. fig. 2; Gosse, 

 "B. Jam. p. 169 (1847); StricM. Ann. $ Mag. X. H. viii. p. 372 

 (1842) ; Baird, B. N. Am. p. 172 ; Newton, Ibis, 1859, p. 146 

 (St, Croix) ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phil. 1860, p. 143 (Carta- 

 gena) ; Albrccht, J.f. O. 1862, p. 199 (Jamaica) : Bryant, J.f. O. 

 1866, p. 182 (Porto Pico); Baird, Brew, et Bidgw. N. A. B. 



