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ZOOLOGY— BIRDS. 



Myiarchus mexicanus, Bd., Ives' Col. Exped., 1857-58, pt. iv, 5.— Bd., Birds N. A., 1858, 



179 (nee Kaup. ; nee Lawr., An. Lye, ix, 1801), 202).— Heeem., P. 11. 11. Rep., 



x, pt. iv, 1859, 37, pi. v. — Xantus, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 190 



(Fort Tcjou, Cal.).— Bd., U. S. & Mcx. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, Birds, 



8.— Coues, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1800, 59 (Fort Whipple, Ariz.).— 



Li., ib., 1808, 82.— Coopee, Birds Cal., i, 1870, 310. — Aiken, Proc. Bost. 



Soc. Nat. Hist., 1S72, 205 (El Paso County, Colo.). 



Myiarchus mexicanus var. pertinax, Bd., Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859 303 (Capo 



Saint Lucas). 



Having a distribution nearly coincident with that of the preceding 



species, though extending somewhat farther to the north into Utah, Nevada, 



and Colorado. It is less abundant than the preceding, and inhabits much 



the same style of country, affecting rough, rocky country sparsely wooded, 



or the brushy creek bottoms, even extending its range out to a considerable 



distance on the dry plains. 



No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Bill. 



Tarsus. 



438 



33 



447 



475 



147 

 14S 



346 



554 



$ ad. 



9 ad. 

 9 ad. 

 9jun. 



9jun. 



<?jun. 



3 



Fort Wingate, N. Mex. 

 Fort Wingate, N. Mex. 

 do 



July 15, 1S73 

 July 16, 1873 

 do 



II. W. Henshaw 



Dr. C. G. Newberry .. 



II. W. Henshaw 



do 



4. 00 



3-73 

 3-75 

 3-67 



3-94 

 3.62 



3-69 

 3- 6 4 



0.75 



0-73 

 0.77 

 0. 70 



o.SS 

 0.S9 

 0.85 

 0.87 



Inscription Rock, N. 



Mex. 

 Camp Apache, Ariz . . . 

 do 



July 23, 1S73 



July 17, 1S74 

 do . 



do 













Camp Bowie, Ariz 



Camp Crittenden, Ariz. 



Aug. io, 1S74 

 Aug. 30, 1S74 













Ff. W. Henshaw.. 





















MYIODYNASTES LUTEIVENTBIS, Bon. 

 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



Plate XIV. 



Tyrannus audax, Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1S50, 297. 



Myiodynastes luteiventer, Bon., Compt. Bend., xxviii, 059.— Sclat., Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 1859, 43, 45, 50, 300, 3S3.— Id., Ibis, 1859, 438.— Sclat. & Salv., Ibis, 1859, 

 120.— Caban. & Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 75.— Sclat., Cat. A. B., 1S61, 223. 

 Above dull ash-gray, becoming white on the forehead; each feather with a median 

 streak of black; crown with a central concealed patch of gamboge-yellow; wings 

 dusky, the coverts and secondaries being edged with whitish, the primaries more nar- 

 row, with yellowish olive; upper tail-coverts and tail brick-rufous, each feather with a 

 median stripe of clear dusky, those of the tail-feathers widest. Throat white ; rest of 

 lower parts sulphur-yellow ; sides of the throat, across the whole breast, and along the 

 sides, longitudinally streaked with dusky-black, these widest across the breast, and 

 coalesced into a broad, nearly uniform stripe alongside of throat. Ear-coverts and 

 lores dusky, bordered above by an indistinct superciliary and below by a wider and 



