472 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Tyrannus pipiri, Vieill., Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 73, pi. 44.— Caban., J. f. O. 1855, 

 478 (Cuba).— SCL., Catal. 1882, 236, No. 1451.— Gundl., Repert. 1865, 239 

 (Cuba).— SCL. & Salv., P. Z. S. 1886, 189 (Nauta, R. Ucayali, E. Peru!*); 

 1870, 837 (coast Honduras); Norn. Neotr. 1873, 53 ("Am. centr. et merid. ad 

 Boliviam"). — COUES, Proc. Pliila. Acad. 1871, 26. 



Tyrannus inlrepidus, Vieill., Enc. M6tli. Ill, 1823, 849; Gal. Ois. I, 1824, 214, pi. 133.— 

 Swains., Philos. Mag. I, 1827, 383; Quart. Jour. XX, 1826, 274.— Sw. «fc Rich., 

 F. B. A. II, 1831, 137.— BoNAP., Comp. List, 1838, 24.— Woodh., Sitgr. Rep. 

 1853, 73.— SCL., P. Z. S. 1857, 232; 1858. 302 (Oaxaca); 1859, 383 (Oaxaca; 

 March, February), 439 ("whole of Mexico").— ScL. & Salv., Ibis, 1859, 120 

 (Guatemala).— Moore, ib. 55 (Houduras).— Sujmichr., Mem. Bost. Soc. I, 

 1869, 557 (Vera Cruz). 

 MyiaroJms intrepidus, Burm., Verz. Mus. Hal. i). 46. 



Musoicapa animosa, Light., Verz. Doubl. 1823, 54. 



Tyrannus leucogastcr, Stephens, Gen. Zool. XIII, ii, 1826, 132. 



Tyrannus vieilloiii, Swains., F. B. A. II, 1831, 138 (based on Vieill., Gal. Ois. pi. 133). 



King Bird; Bee Bird; Bee Martin, VULG. 



Sp. Ch.— Wiug, 4.45-4.75; tail, 3.40-3.75; bill, from uostrH, .50-.57, 

 depth at base .24-.27, width .37-.40; tarsus, .70-.78; middle toe, .55- 

 .60. Adult: Above black, becoming plumbeous on the back, scapu- 

 lars, and rump; large wing-coverts and remiges edged with whitish; 

 upper tail-coverts bordered with white, and tail broadly tipped with the 

 same. Below pure white, strongly shaded with ash-gray across the jugu- 

 lum. Middle of the crown with a concealed patch of bright orange-red. 

 Young: Above dusky brownish slate, the wing-coverts bordered with 

 pale fulvous, the remiges with dull whitish; upper taU-coverts bordered 

 with pale rusty; tail tipped with pale fulvous, or browuish white. Be- 

 neath as in the adult, but jugidimi tinged with pale fulvous. I*^o colored 

 patch on vertex. 



H AB. — Temperate North America, except parts of the Pacific and Mid- 

 dle Provinces; Middle America, and Western South America to Bolivia; 

 Cuba and Bahamas. 



Ee3IAE,ks. — ]^o difference is perceptible, either in color or proportions, 

 between specimens from Tropical America and those from the United 

 States, although the former may, perhaps, average a trifle smaller. 

 Western ej:amples are likewise identical with Eastern. The species 

 breeds at least as far south as the Isthmus of Panama, as is evident 

 from young specimens, in first ])lumage, in the National Collection, from 

 the line of the Panama Eailroad. 



5.— TYRANNUS CRASSIROSTRIS. 



Tyrannus crassirostris, Swains., Quart. Journ. Sci. XX, 1826, 278; Philos. Mag. 1827, 

 368.— SCL., Ibis, 1859,439 (Mazatlau); Catal. 1881, 236, No. 1448 (Mazatlau, W. 

 Mexico).— ScL. & Salv., Ibis, 1860, 399 (Escuintla).— Lawr., Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. No. 4, 1876, 28 (Chihuitan,Tehuantepcc, and Los Cues, Oaxaca). 



* "Indistinguishable from North American specimens." Said to have been seen by 

 D'Orbignv as far South as Sta. Cruz di- hi Sierra, Bolivia ! 



