480 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



690.— AiXEN, Bull. M. C. 'L. 1872, 179 (Kansas, etc.).— Aiken, Pr. Boston Soc. 

 1872, 205.— ScL. & Salv., Norn. Neotr. 1873, .'SS.- Snow, B. Kans. 1873, 3 

 (abundant in E. Kansas!).— B. B. «& R., Hist. N. Am. B. II, 1874, 324, pi. 43, 

 fig. 2.— JOUY, Field and Forest, April, 1877, 178 (District Columbia ; 1 spec.).— 

 * RiDGW., i)>. June, 1877, 208 (Colorado). 



Muscicapa vertical is, Bonap., Am. Orn. I, 182r>, l(-i, pi. 2, lig. 2; Syuop. 1828, G7. — 

 NuTT., Mau. I, 1832, 273.— AuD., Orn. Biog. IV, 1838, 422, pi. 359; Synop. 

 1839, 39 ; B. Am. I, 1840, 199, pl. 54. 

 Laphyctes vcvtieaUn, Cab.vn. & Heine, Mus. Hcin. [I. 18.59. 77. footnote. 



Sp. Ch. — AVing, 4.75-5.25 ; tail, 3.05-4.00 ; bill, from nostril, .50-.55,. 

 depth at base .25-.28, width .35-.38 ; tarsus, .08-.77 ; middle toe .55-.58. 

 Adult: Head, neck, and back bhiish ash-gray, paler beneath, the chin and 

 upper pai-t of the throat being- nearly white ; lores and auricnlars darker: 

 back and breast tinged with olive-gTeen, lighter beneath. Wings dusky^ 

 tihe feathers edged with slate-gray, these edgings broader and lighter on 

 the secondaries. Upper tail-coverts and tail deep black, the outer webs 

 of the lateral pair of rectriees yellowish white, in sharp contrast. Lower 

 parts, posterior to the breast, deep sulphur-yellow, paler on the crissum : 

 the lining of the Aviug strongly tinged with olive-gray. Crown with a 

 concealed patch of bright orange-red or vermilion. Young: Head above 

 and back light brownish-gray, the latter strongly tinged with olive-green j 

 superciliary region paler than the croAvn, in quite marked contrast with 

 the dusky-gray auricnlars and lores. Chin, throat, and malar region 

 white, gradually passing into ])ale brownish gray on the jugulum, the 

 breast similar, but tinged with pale olivaceous ; remaining lower parts 

 pale creamy sulphur-yellow. Tail as in the adult ; wings dusky, as in 

 the adult, but the feathers widely edged with ])nl(> ycllowi.sli gray. Xc> 

 colored patch on the crown. 



Hab. — The Western Province of jSTorth .Vmeiica, straggling occa- 

 sionally entirely across the Eastern ProAince : Western Mexico, south to 

 Isthmus of Tehuantepec* and Colima.t 



11.— TYRANNl'S VOCIFERANS 



Tyrannus vodftruitx, Swains.. Quart. Jour. XX, L~2G, 273 (Jklcxiioj ; Pliilos. Mag. 1, 1827,. 

 368.— Baird, B. N. Am. lf-58, 174 ; Jlex. Bound. Surv. II, 1859, pt. ii, 8, pl. 

 10 ; Cat. N. Am. B. 18r.9, No. 127.— ScL., P. Z. S. 1859, 383 (Oaxaca ; Feb.) ; Ibis, 

 1859, 439 (Oaxaca ; Guatemala); Catal. 1862, 235, No. 1446 (LosNogales, Sono- 

 ra) ; P. Z. S. 1864, 176 (City of Mexico).— SCL. & Salv., Ibis, 1859, 120 (Vera Paz, 

 Guatemala) ; Noin. Neotr. 1873, ,53 (Mexico and Guatemala). — Coues, Pr. Philad. 

 Ac. 186(i, 59 (Arizona) ; Key^ 1872, 170 ; Check List, 1873, No. 245 ; B. N. W. 

 1874, 238.— Cooper, Orn. Cal. I, 1870, 314 (Southern Cal. ; breeding north to 

 Sta. Cruz; wintering north to Los Angeles). — Aiken, Pr. Boston Soc. 1872,205 

 (S. E. Wyoming).— Merriam, Rep. U. S. Geol. Surv. Tterr. 1872, 690.— Sumichk., 

 Mem. Boston Soc. I, 1869, 557 (Vera Cruz).— B. B. &, R., Hist. N. Am. B. II, 

 1874, 327, pl. 43, fig. 5.— RiDGW., Bull. Essex Inst. Nov. 1873, 184 (Colorado); 



*58,850, 2 ad., Japana, Tehuantepec, April 29, 1869; F. Sumichrast. 

 135,064, S ad., Plains of Colima, October, 1863: J. Xantus. 



