346 



ZOOLOCIY— BIRDS. 



Myiarchus mexicanuii, Bd., Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-58, i>t. iv, 5.— Bd., Binl.s N. A., 1858, 



179 {ncc Kiitip. ; ncc Lawr., An. Lye, ix, 18G9, 20L').— DKEliM., P. K. H. Kop., 



X, pt. iv, 1859, 37, pi. v.— Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 



(Fort Tejon, Cal.). — Bd., U. S. & Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 



8.— CoUES, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 18(50, 59 (Fort Wbipple, Ariz.). — 



Id., ib., 18G8, 82.— Cooi'EK, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 310.— Aiken, Proc. Bost. 



Soc. Nat. Eist., 1872, 205 (EI Paso County, Colo.). 



Myiarchuit mvxicantts \i\T. 2>e>tinax, Bd., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859 303 (Capo 



Saint Lucas). 



Having a distribution nearly coincident with that of the preceding 



species, though extending somewhat fiirther to the north into Utah, Nevada, 



and Colorado. It is less abundant than the preceding, and inhabits much 



the same style of country, afiecting rough, rocky country sparsely wooded, 



or the brushy creek bottoms, even extending its range out to a considerable 



distance on the dry plains. 



MYIODYNASTES LUTEIVENTEIS, Bon. 

 YelIow-beIIie<l Flycatcher. 



Plate XIV. 



Tyrannim avdax, SCLAT., Proc. Z06I. Soc, 1856, 297. 



Myiodynmten luteirenter, BoN., Compt. Kend., xxviii, C59.— Sclat., Proc. Zoiil. Soc, 

 1859, 43, 45, 50, 300, 383.— /</., Ibis, 1859, 438.— ScLAT. & Salv., Ibis, 1859, 

 120.— Caban. & Heine, JIus. Heiu., ii, 75.— Sclat., Cat. A. B., 1801, 223. 

 Above dull ash-gray, becoming white on the forehead; each feather with a median 

 streak of black; crown with a central concealed patch of gamboge yellow ; wings 

 dusky, the coverts and secondaru>s being edged with whitisli, tiie piiuinries more nar- 

 row, with yellowish olive; upper tailcoverts and tail l)rick rufous, each feather with a 

 median strii)e of clear dusky, tho.se of the tail-feathers wiilest. Throat white ; rest of 

 lower i)arts sulphur-yellow ; sides of the throat, across the whole breast, and along the 

 sides, lougitJidiiially streaked with dusky-black, the.se widest across the brvast, aiul 

 coalesced into a broad, nearly uniform stripe alongside of throat. Ear coverts and 

 lt>res dusky, bordi'red above by an indistinct sui»erciliary and below by a wider and 



