^0.3.] SENNETT ON THE ORNITHOLOGY OF TEXAS. 407 



yellow commissure led me at first to think it the young of some otlier 

 species, but I fortunately perceived my error, and was careful to pre- 

 serve what proves to be the best find of the trip, one which adds to 

 our fauna a new genus and species never suspected to occur so far 

 north. 



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Lomita April 24 



4.50 



7.25 2. IS 



1.85 



[Genus PITANGUS Sw. 



Tjjramms, Vieill., Anal, d'une Nouv. Ornitli. Elem. 1816, p. — (nee Cur.). 



Musicapa, Temm., Man. Orn. i, 1820, p. Ixvij (nee Linn.). 



Muscipeta, "Flem. 1822" (teste Gray). 



Pitangus, Swains., Zool. Journ. iii, 1827, p. 165. 



Sauroplmgits, Swains., Fn. Bor. Am. ii, 1831, App. p. 484. (Type Lamus suJphuraius 



aiict. ) 

 Apolites, ''Sundev. 1836" (teste Gray). 



This is another interesting acquisition to onr fauna, for which vre are indebted to 

 Mr. Sennett, the genus as -well as the species being first taken by him within the 

 boundary of the United States — a "find" which ofisets the detection of the related 

 Myiodynasies luteiventris in Arizona by iSlr. Henshaw. 



The birds of this genus are large and handsome Flycatchers, of conspicuous colors, 

 ■well known and widely distributed in Mexico, Central and South America, as well as 

 in the West Indies. — E. C] 



81. Pitangus derbianus (Kaup) Scl. — Rio Grande Flycatclier. 



\_Tyrannus suJplmratus, Swains., Syn. Mex. B. in Philos. Mag. i, 1827, p. 3G8 



(nee Lanius sul2)huratits Linn.) (Mexico). 

 Saurophagtis sulplmraius, Gamb., Journ. Phila. Acad. 2d ser. i, 1847, p. 39. 

 Saurophagus derManus, Kaup, P. Z. S. 1851, p. 44, pi. 36 (Mexico). — Cab. & 

 Heine, Mus. Hein. ii, 1859, p. 62 (Mexico). — Finsch, Abhandl. nat. Ver. 

 Bremen, 1870, p. 329. 

 Pitangus derUamis, Scl., P. Z. S. 1856, p. 297 (Cordova; ^a77e).— Scl., P. Z. S. 

 1859, pp. 45 (Mex. and C. Am.), 56 (Belize), 366 (Xalapa).— Scl., Ibis, i, 1859, 

 p. 438 (Mexico).— Scl. & Salv., Ibis, i, 1859, p. 120 (Central America).— Scl., 

 Cat. A. B. 1862, p. 221 (Mexico and Guatemala).— Gray, Hand-1. i, 1869, p. 

 • 357, No. 5425 (Mexico).— La WR., Mem. Bost. Soc. vol. ii, pt. iii. No. 2, 1874, 

 p. 286 (Mazatlan and Colima).— Lawr., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 4, 1876, 

 p. 26 (Tehuantej)ec). 

 Pitavgus derlijaims, Coues, The Country, July 13, 1878, p. 184 (Texas ; G. B. 



Sennett. First introduced to U. S. fauna). 

 Sanrophagus guathnalensis, Lafresn., Rev. et Mag. Zool. Oct. 1852, p. 462 (Gua- 

 temala). 

 Hab. — Central America and Mexico to the Rio Grande of Texas. — E. C] 



Sp. Ch.— Upper parts light brown, tinged olive on the back ; all the quills and 

 coverts edged largely with bright cinnamon ; crown black, surrounded by white, and 

 partly concealing a large bright lemon- and flame-colored i)atch ; auriculars and stripe 

 from bill through eye to shoulder black ; chin and throat pure white ; all the rest of 

 under parts and under wings pure lemon of the richest hue; bill and feet black; iris 

 hazel. Length 10.50 to 11.00 ; wing 4f to 5 ; tail 4 to 4ir; bill Ii to Ii ; tarsus 1. 



A genus and species common in Mexico, but new to the fauna of the 

 United States. It leads the Flycatchers on account of its large size and 



