616 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN ON [June 3, 



188. Tyrannus melancholicus (Vieill.); Scl. Cat. A. B. 

 p. 235. 



Retiro, Medellin. 



Iris dark ; food, insects ; builds in trees. 



Eggs (no. 27) pale salmon-colour, spotted, especially in a zone 

 round the larger end, with red-brown, red, and lilac spots : axis 1*0, 

 diam. 7. (Mus. Brit.) 



" The nest of this bird is built upon a spreading branch near the 

 top of low trees ; it is made of small twigs lined with black dry 

 fibrous roots, and is generally a slight structure. The eggs, two in 

 number, are white tinged with pink, and spotted, mostly at the larger 

 end, with blood-red. In Tierra Fria it breeds in the months of March 

 and April, in Tierra Caliente in May and June. The young 

 resemble the old ones, with the exception of the orange-coloured 

 feathers on the head. It is a noisy, quarrelsome bird, continually 

 attacking and driving away all intruders from its domain." — T. K. S. 



189. Milvulus tyrannus (Linn.). 

 Retiro, Medellin. 



Eggs (no. 55) creamy white, spotted with distinct spots of dark 

 red, especially at the larger end ; axis - 9, diam. -65. (Mus. Brit.) 



" This species builds its nest on the spreading branches of trees, 

 generally at no great height, making it of grass-stalks, roots, and 

 fibres, intermixed with cotton, silk and a variety of other substances ; 

 sometimes it is lined with dry roots, at others entirely with grass. 

 The male is almost invariably perched on some conspicuous branch 

 while the female is sitting. Builds always in the open country, 

 never in the forest." — T. K. S. 



Fam. Piprid^:. 



190. Masius coronulatus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 91, et Cat. 

 A. B. p. 247, pi. xix. 



In 1875 Mr Salmon sent home a single skin of the male of this 

 form, now in Sclater's collection. It differs from typical examples 

 from Ecuador in having the thick flattened horny ends of the fea- 

 thers which terminate the crest of a pale brown instead of a red 

 colour ; but we are not inclined to separate the form specifically on 

 the faith of this single specimen. 



191. Chloropipo flavicapilla (Scl.), Cat. A. B. p. 247. 

 Medellin. (Mus. S.-G.) 



Mr. Salmon's specimens differ from Bogota skins in having the 

 yellow of the upper surface confined to the crown and nape, the 

 back and cheeks being olivaceous ; otherwise the birds agree, and 

 are hardly separable specifically. 



192. Pipra auricapilla, Licht. ; Scl. Cat. p. 249. 



Remedios and Neche. (Mus. S.-G.) 

 Iris white. 



