586 BULLETIN UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. [VolY. 



1878. PuRDiE, H. A. The Nest and Eggs of tlie Yellow-bellied Flycatclier (Empi- 

 donax flaviventris). <^Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, ill, No. 4, Oct., 1878, pp. 

 166-168. 



Important, being a careful description of an authentic nest and eggs. Miicli error and un- 

 certainty liad prevailed on this subject, even among the leading writers. Both Brewer and 

 Coues had stated the eggs to be white, whereas they are well spotted. 



1878. ScLATER, [P. L.] [Eemarks on Exhibition of the type of Dicrnrus marginatus 



Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 46, =: Muscipipra vetula Licht.] <^P. Z. S., Mar. 19, 



1878, p. 339. 



1879. A[llen], J. A. Brewer on the Nests and Eggs of Empidouaces. <^ Bull. NuU. 



Ornith. Cluh, iv, No. 4, Oct., 1879, p. 232. 

 ISTotice of the paper in Proe. Nat. Mus., ii, Apr., 1879, pp. 1-10. 

 1879. Anon. Nest and Eggs of Empidonax trailii. < The Oologist, iv, No. 11, June, 



1879, pp, 85, 86. 



1879. Batchelder, C. F. Nesting of the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax 

 flaviventris. < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Cluh, iv. No. 4, Oct., 1879, pp. 241, 242. 

 Two cases detailed, with full description of the nests and eggs. 

 1879. Brewer, T. M. Notes on the Nests and Eggs of the eight North American 

 Species of Empidouaces. < Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ii, Apr. 29, 1879, pj). 1-10. 



Measurements of all the specimens in the National Museum, in the Coll. T. M. B., and a 

 few others, with descriptions of these, and of various nests. Eggs of E. minimus, obscurus, 

 and ham,mondi noiinally white, irumarked ; of JE. flaviventris noinially spotted, sometimes 

 unmarked ; of E. trailii, acadicus, pusillus, and difficilis normally strongly marked. 



1879. [CouES, E.] The Nest of Emi^idonax minimus. <^ Temperance Vidette (news- 

 paper of Terrell, Texas), Nov. 1, 1879. 

 Quoted from his Birds of the Northwest, 1874, p. 255. 



1879. Cunningham, S. Nest of the Great-crested Flycatcher [Myiarchus crinitus]. 

 < The Oologist, iv. No. 8, Mar., 1879, p. 59. 



1879. [Grinnell, G. B.] Nests and Eggs of the Genus Empidonax. <^ Forest and 

 Stream, xii, July 10, 1879, p. 444. 



Notice of Dr. T. M. Brewer's paper on The Nests and Eggs of the Eight North American 

 Species oi Empidouaces m Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., ii, 1879, pp. 1-10. 



1879. Hayward, R. A Spotted Egg of Erapidouax minimus. < Bull. Nutt. Ornith. 

 Club, iv, No. 2, Apr., 1879, p. 124. 

 Identification of the specimen attested by W. Brewster. 



1879. Osborne, S. D. AnotherNest of the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher (Empidonax fla- 

 viventris). <C.Bull. NuU. Ornith. Club, iv, No. 4, Oct., 1879, pp. 240,241. 



1879. Ridgway, R. Descriptions of New Species and Races of American Birds, in- 

 cluding a Synopsis of the Genus Tyrannus, Cuvier. <^ Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 i, 1878 (pub. May, 1879), pp. 466-486. 



I. The greater part of the paper is occupied with this excellent monography of Tyrannus, 

 in which the following species are recognized and fully treated, with synonymy, diagnosis, 

 habitat, and criticism: IT. m,agnirostris, rostratus, dominicensis, carolinensis. crassirostris, 

 melancholicus O. couchi, y. satrapa), albigularis, apolites, niveigularis, verticalis, vociferans, 

 luggeri (n. sp., p. 481), and aurantio-atrocristatus. — II. Lichenops perspidllatus, )3. andinus, 

 p. 483 ; Bacnis pulcherrima, ^. aureinucha, p. 484 ; Parus rufescens, p. neglectus, p. 485, sub- 

 spp. nn. 



