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402 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. os 
25. Cassicus prevosti (Less.). 
Abundant. Apparently gregarious. Iris yellow. Bill light green. 
Four specimens. 
“26. Icterus mesomelas Wagl. 
Common. Feeds largely on plantains. An exceedingly brillant song- 
ster, and altogether one of the most attractive birds in theregion. Three 
specimens. 
27. Quiscalus macrurus (Sw.) 
Apparently not common. One specimen. 
Fam. TYRANNIDA. 
‘28. Copurus leuconotus Lafr. 
Rather common. Breeding. This pretty little Flycatcher builds its 
nest in a hole in a dry tree, after the manner of woodpeckers—perhaps 
the abandoned nests of the latter. 
Note weak and rather “squeaky.” Three specimens. 
29. Todirostrum cinereum (Linn.). 
Common. Habits somewhat wren-like. 
* 30. Todirostrum schistaceiceps Scl. 
Common. Habits similar to preceding species. Two specimens. 
“31. Mionectes oleagineus Cab. 
One specimen, shot in deep woods. 
32. Myiozetetes granadensis Lawr. 
Abundant. There is a very remarkable fact in connection with this 
bird at Los Sabales. 
Fully half the specimens seen, as well as those secured, have the tail 
feathers cut off at a point about one-half the distance from insertion to 
terminus. This is true of adult specimens. This is so noticeable that 
I thought the birds thus mutilated to be a wonderful new species of 
“‘hob-tailed” Flycatcher. 
So far as I have been able to learn, this is a fact unique in ornithol- 
Oey. 
In all other respects the specimens with the tails cut are exactly like 
ithose whose tails are entire. Four specimens. 
* 32. Myiozetetes texensis (Giraud). 
{NorE.—The foregoing remarks refer to this species also, which had 
‘been overlooked until after the list had been written.—R. R.] 
“3S. Muscivora mexicana Scl. 
Not very common. Found always, so far as my experience goes, near 
running water. ‘Two specimens. : 
34. Myiobius sulphureipyegius Scl. 
Apparently rare. One specimen. 
