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one^ a female of either this bird or Tyrannus melanchoUcus ; but 

 as the tail is somewhat damaged, it is hard to decide to which 

 species it belongs. Dr. Sclater tells me he thinks it to be 

 T. couchiy but says he is not quite sure. Whichever it be, I 

 found the species, in July and August 1863, not uncommon near 

 Matamoras and Brownsville, where it was breeding ; but on my 

 second visit to that town in August 1864, 1 saw none, though I 

 visited the same places where I had shot several the year before. 

 Female. Beak blackish brown ; legs brownish lead-colour ; 

 iris brown. 



Myiarchus crinitus (Linnseus). Great Crested Flycatcher. 

 I have a couple of specimens shot at San Antonio in the 

 month of April. 



Myiarchus mexicanus (Kaup). Ashy-throated Flycatcher. 



Arrives at San Antonio at the latter end of April, the first 

 that came under my notice being one I shot on the 23rd of 

 that month on the Medina. It breeds near the Medina and 

 San Antonio Bivers, making its nest in a hollow tree, or taking 

 possession of a deserted Woodpecker^s hole. I noticed these 

 birds as far east as the Guadaloupe Biver, where they were com- 

 mon ; but further to the eastward I observed very few. 



The eggs are peculiarly mai'ked with a multitude of purple 

 and brown dashes and lines on a dull yellowish-brown ground, 

 and are very similar to those of Myiarchus crinitus. 



Male. Beak brownish-black, light blue at the base of the 

 lower mandible ; legs black ; iris dark brown. 



Sayornis fuscus (Gmelin). Pewee. 



[Only seen near San Antonio, in its migrations north and 

 south.— A. L. H.] 



Not common about San Antonio ; indeed I did not notice 

 more than three or four during the spring, I suppose, however, 

 that it breeds near Houston, as I saw several at that place early 

 in June. 



Sayornis sayus (Bonaparte). Say^s Flycatcher. 



I first noticed this bird in the month of November 1863, 

 when walking in the garden of the arsenal at San Antonio, and 

 there of course could not shoot it. On my journey to Eagle 



