Species of Birds from Brazil. 139 



By the kindness of Herr von Pelzeln I have been able to 

 compare Nattererian skins from Ypanema and Rio Verde, 

 named Serpophaga subcristata by him. This identifica 

 tion I found to be correct. It remains to be seen if birds 

 from Minas, classed by Prof. Reinhardt under this name, 

 belong also to the Serpophaga, or to my Elainea tacza- 

 nowskii^. 



-f 2. Myiarchus PELZELNi, sp. nov. 



M. supra olivascenti-griseus, pileo aliquot obscuriore, magis 



olivascenti-brunnco ; pluniis frontalibus, loris (in fundo 



griseis) et superciliis indistinctis flavescente olivaceo per- 



fusis ; plumis auricularibus brunnescentibus ; gntture et 



pectore superiore albescenti-griseis, abdomine pallide 



limonaceo ; remigibus secundariis et tertiariis cum tec- 



tricibus alarum superioribus albescenti late raarginatis ; 



rectrice utrinque extima margine externo late flavescente 



albo prsedita ; rostro augustiore, gracili, pallide brunneo ; 



pedibus nigris. Long. al. 86-88, caud. 80-82, rostr. 



17^-181, tars. 19^ millim. 



Hab. Bahia, Brasilia. [Three specimens in Mus. H. v. 



Berlepsch (nos. 5734, 5735, 5736) examined. All three are 



of the unmistakable make of Bahia skins, and were picked 



out from large lots received by Mr. Ashmead of London.] 



Obs. M. tyrannulo auctt. plur.f ( = 71^. ca?itans, Pelzeln), 



* [Prof. Reiiiliardt's Mrd is Scrpnphaija suhcristata, as I have one of 

 Lund's skins (La^oa Santa, 1836), received from Prof. Reinhardt, in my 

 collection. I cannot find Mr. Forbes's skin from Pernambuco ; but as I 

 identified it myself from the skius in my own collection, I have little 

 doubt that it is =<S'. subcristata. E. taczanowskii is, I think, a valid 

 species. — P. L. S.] 



t Having lately examined Buff()n's PI. Enl. 571. fig. 1, on wliich Mus- 

 cicapa tyrannulus, Miiller, M. aurora, Bodd. (fide Cassin), and M.ferox, 

 Gmel. (partly), are founded, I was surprised to find that Buffbn clearly 

 fio-ures the species (with red inner webs to the tail-feathers and rufous 

 outer margLus of the primaries) called " eri/throcercus" by Messrs. Sclater 

 and Salvin. The consequence is that Herr von Pelzeln was quite right in 

 bestowin"' a new name (viz. canta7is, Pelz.) on the other, common species 

 (which has no red in the tail Sec.) ceiWed "ferox" ov ^' t>/ra?i7iulus" hy 

 Messrs. Sclater and Salvin. It is true that Miiscicapaferox, Gmel. (p. 934), 

 partly belongs to " cantans,'" the description of Brisson ( Tyranniis cayen- 

 nensis, ii. p. 308), which he cites first, and that of Latham, which he 



