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Lapliycies mehincltoliciis, Cabax. v^- Hf.ixe, Mus. Heine. II, 1859, 76 (Brazil; excl. 

 syu. alhogularis, Burm.). 

 Muscicapa despotes, Licnx., Verz. Doiibl. 1823, 55. 

 Muscicapa fitrcata, Spix, Av. Bras. II, 1825, 15, pi. 19. 



Tyranvus furcalns, Max., Beitr. Ill, 1831, 884. 

 Tyrannns cntdclis, RwAixs., Quart. Jonr. XX, 1826, 275 (Brazil). 



,3. couchi. 



Tyrannus couchi, Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 175 ( " Nortlieasteru Mexico to Kio Grande''); 

 ed. 1860, pi. 49, fig. 1; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, No. 128.— ScL., Ibis, 1859, 439 

 (Orizaba) ; Catal. 1862, 235, No. 1445 (Mexico).— Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 472 (com- 

 mon near Matamoras and Brownsville). 

 Tyrannus mdanclioUms var. couchi, B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B. II, 1874, 329, pi. 43, 



fig. 7. 

 Tyrannus melancholicus couchi, Coue.s »fc SentsEIT, Bull. U. S. Geol. & Gcog. Surv. 

 TeiT. IV, No. 1, 1878, 31 (Hidalgo, Texas ; common). 



" TyrannusmelanclioJicus,'" SCL. & Sal v., Ibis, 1859, 121 (Duenas, Guatemala : descr. eggs); 

 (?) P. Z. S. 1870, 837 (coast Honduras); Norn. Neotr. 1873, 53 (part).— Taylor. 

 Ibis, 1860, 113 (Honduras).- OWEX, Ibi.s, 1861, 63 (San Geronimo, Gnat. ; descr. 

 nest).— Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. IX, 1869, 204 (Yucatan).— ScL., P. Z. S. 1870, 

 439 (Cordova, Jalapa, and Oaxaca, Mexico ; Gu,atemala). 



" lyrannus satrapa'" (]>art), SCL., Catal. 1862,235, No. 1444 (specs, ex Vera Paz and Ori- 

 zaba). 



Couch's Flycatcher, Baird, 1. c 



; . fialrapa. 



'* Tyrannus melanchoUcus," Tsciiuui, Wiegm. Arcbiv, 1844, 12 {!); Faun. Per. Aves, 

 1844-46, 131 (?).— Cabax., in Schomb. Guiana, III, 1843, 700.— SCL., P. Z. S. 1855, 

 150 (Bogota); 1856, 141 (David, Chiriqui) ; 1858, 70, 457; 1859,55; 1860, 92 

 (E. Ecuador); 281 (Bababoyo, Ecuador); 1867. .342 (Lima, Peini),— Baird, 

 B. N. Am. 1858, 176 (part ; specs, described from " Vera Cruz"' and Panama). — 

 SCL. & Salt., P. Z. S. 1864, 360 (Isth. Panama) ; 1867, 279 (Mosquito coast), 578 

 (Para), 751 (Huallaga R., E. Peru); 1869, 189 (Nauta, Peru), 598, (Conispata, 

 Peru); Nom. Neotr. 1873, 53 (part).— Cass., Pr. Philad. Ac. 1860,143, (New 

 Granada).— Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. VII, 1861, 295 (Panama); IX, 1869, 237 

 (Puna I.,\V. Ecuador).— Taylor, Ibis, 1864,87 (Trinidad; Venezuela).— Sal- 

 VKsr, P. Z. S. 1870, 199 (Veragua).— Finsch, ib. 572 (Trinidad).— Wyatt, Ibis, 

 1871, 334 (New Granada, up to 7,000 feet; iris brown). 



Laphyctes satrapa, Caban. «fc Heine, Mus. Hein. II, Oct. 15, 1859, 77 (Guiana; Caracas; 

 ex "Muscicapa satrapa, Licbt., in Mus. Berol."). — Cab.\x., J. f. 0. 1S61, 251. 

 Tyrannus satrapa, ScL., Catal. 1862, 235, No. 1444 (part ; specs, ex Tobago and Sta. 

 Mk-ta and Bogota, Now Granada).— ScL. & Salv.,P. Z. S. 1864, 360 (Isth. Pa- 

 nama). 



" Tyrannus rcriicaUs," Licor., Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 213 (uec Say). 



Sp. Ch.— Tail more or less decidedly eniargiuate (depth of the fork 

 .20-.85 of an inch) ; five outer primaries more or less narrowed at the 

 ends by the emargination of the inner web (nearly obsolete in some 

 females and in the young). Wing, 4.25-4.85; tail, ;5.7()-4.50; bill, from 

 nostril, .G0-.77, width .40-.52, depth .24-.35; tarsus, .(>0-.S0; middle 

 toe, .50-.60.* Head cinereous, the auriculars perceptibly darker, the 

 malar region, e.hin, and throat paler (whitish in more northern specunens). ' 

 Back, scapulars, and sides of the breast greenish cinereous, the green 

 '^ Forty-eiglit adults measured ! 



