38 TYEANNID^. 



Empidonax atrirostris, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1871, p. 234'; cf. Salv, IMs^ 1874^ p. 316'. 

 Muscicapa griseicollis, Licht. Mus. Ber. {apud Sclater) ". 



Supra fuscns ; dorso olivaceo vix tincto ; pileo, alis et cauda nigricantibus, tectricibus alarum (ad apices), 

 secundariis extrorsum et caudse apiee pallide fuscis : subtus ad medium pectus cinereus ; abdomine et 

 subalaribus pallide flavis : rostro et pedibus nigricantibus. Long, tota 5-5, alae 2-75, caudse 2-6, tarsi 0-7, 

 rostri a rictu 0-55. (Descr. maris ex Punta Arenas, Costa Kica. Mus. nostr.) 



Eah. Costa Eica, Punta Arenas (0. /S.!).— Colombia^ 7; Venezuela s. 



A single male specimen shot by Salvin when in company with Captain J. M. Dow in 

 the outskii-ts of the town of Punta Arenas in March 1863 is the only example that 

 has yet been obtained of this species within our limits. On comparing the types of 

 U. arenarum and SuUegatus glaher we find them not specifically different, so that this 

 bird must be removed from Mainea and transferred to Sublegatus, its short stout bill 

 and moderately developed bristles rendering it an abnormal member of Mainea. 



The identification of these birds extends the range of Sublegatus arenarum to 

 Colombia and Venezuela, Mr. Wyatt having found it in the former country ^, and Mr. 

 Goring in the latter ^, and skins of it also occur in the trade collections of Bogota. 



LEGATUS. 



Legatus, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 46 ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 155 (type Tyrannus alUcollis, 

 Vieill.). 



This genus contains but one species, which is spread over nearly the whole of 

 tropical America from the eastern slopes of the Cordillera of Southern Mexico to Para- 

 guay and South Brazil. 



The character of the coloration of L. allicollis diff"ers in many respects from that of 

 the genera near which it is placed, and, though resembling Myiozetetes so far as the 

 head is concerned, diff'ers in having a striped breast and fianks. 



The bill is wide, the width at the gape being rather more than three quarters the length 

 of the tomia ; the culmen is gradually curved from the forehead ; the nostrils are at 

 the lower anterior edge of the nasal fossa, which is large and covered with membrane 

 the rictal and frontal bristles are short, leaving the nostril completely exposed ; the 

 tarsi are short and covered with scutellse ; the toes rather short, the outer and inner 

 toes being nearly equal; the 2nd and 3rd quills are the longest, 3rd > 1st, lst=5th- 

 tail moderate and slightly marginate, =f wing, = 4 tarsus. 



1. Legatus albicollls. 



Tyrannus albicollis, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xxxv. p. 89 \ 



Legatus albicollis, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 472 ''^ viii. p. 177', ix. p. 112 *j Scl. & Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1864, p. 359' J Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 197^; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv! 



p. 155 \ 



