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and placed in thorny trees. Eggs 3-5, 1.18 X -80, bufly white speckled and 

 spotted (the markings mostly longitudinal), chiefly on larger end, with 

 madder-brown and purplish gray. Hab. Middle America and northern 

 South America, north to lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas. 



449. P. derbianus (KAUP). Derby Flycatcher. 



a 1 . Whole top and sides of head plain brownish slate, or dusky, becoming lighter 

 and more ashy on forehead ; middle of crown with a rather small concealed 

 patch of brownish orange-yellow, or orange-rufous; back, scapulars, and 

 rump plain slate-gray or dull ash-gray, slightly tinged with olive ; wings 

 dusky, the middle and greater coverts and tertials conspicuously margined 

 with dull whitish, the quills narrowly edged with the same ; tail dull black- 

 ish, or dusky, tipped with dull light grayish, the outer web of lateral feather 

 also dull light grayis'h ; lower parts dull whitish, purer on throat and belly, 

 faintly shaded with ashy on breast, and passing into pale sulphur-yellow on 

 axillars, under wing-coverts, flanks, and under tail-coverts ; upper tail-coverts 

 broadly but rather indistinctly margined with rusty; length (skins) about 

 8.00-8.50, wing 4.15-4.40, tail 3.40-3.90, exposed culmen .95-.1.00, tarsus .85- 

 .90. Hab. Bahamas P. bahamensis BRYANT. Bahaman Petarchy. 1 



GENUS MYIOZETETES SCLATER. (Page 327, pi. XCV., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Adult : Crown and occiput dull brownish gray, enclosing a concealed patch of 

 bright orange-red; forehead and broad superciliary stripe white; lores, malar and 

 suborbital regions, and ear-coverts deep brownish gray (darker than top of head), 

 producing a very broad stripe along side of head ; hind-neck and sides of neck like 

 crown, but tinged with olive-green ; back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, and rump 

 plain olive, or dull olive-green, brighter posteriorly ; upper tail-coverts duller (some- 

 times more grayish) olive, occasionally margined with rusty; wings and tail dusky 

 grayish brown, the feathers edged with paler the secondaries (especially tertials) 

 with distinct olive-yellowish margins ; chin and throat white ; rest of lower parts 

 pure gamboge-yellow. Young : Similar to adult, but crown without the concealed 

 orange-patch, white portions of head more or less tinged with yellowish, and larger 

 wing-feather and tail-feather margined with light rusty. Length about 6.50-6.75, 

 wing 3.65-4.00, tail 2.20-2.40, exposed culmen .50, tarsus .80. Nest similar to that 

 of Pitangus derbianus, but smaller. (Eggs unknown.) Hab. Middle America, south 

 to Colombia, north to northern Mexico (and southern Texas ?). 



450. M. texensis (GIRAUD). Giraud's Flycatcher. 



GENUS MYIODYNASTES BONAPARTE. (Page 326, pi. XCIIL, fig. 1.) 



Species. 



COMMON CHARACTERS. Above brownish, striped with black, the lower rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and tail rufous, streaked medially with black ; wings dusky, with 



1 Pitangus bahamensis BRYANT, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. is. 1864, 279. 



