52 TrRANNID^. 



Hab. Mexico, Presidio (Forrer), Tampico ( W. JB. Richardson), State of Vera Cruz {Sumi- 

 chrast is), Misantla, Jalapa (F. D. G.), Jalapa {SalU, de Oca "), Cofre de Perote 

 {M. Trujillo), Orizaba (Botteri), Atoyac {3frs.E. H. Smith), Vera Cruz (Bichardson), 

 Tehuantepec {Beppe% Teapa {Mrs. H.H.Smith), Guichicovi, Chihuitan, Sta.Efigenia 

 {Sumichrast^% Merida in Yucatan {Schott^^), Buctzotz and Peto {G. F. Gaumer); 

 Guatemala {Skinner i^, Constancia "'), Yaxcamnal, Choctum, San Geronimo, Bar- 

 ranco Hondo, Volcan de Agua above San Diego, Savana Grande, Volcan de Fuego 

 {0.S.& F. B. G.); HoxDURAS, Taulevi {Taylor ^% San Pedro {G. M. Whitely^^); 

 Nicaragua, San Juan del Sur^, Omotepe 1.^ [Nutting), Chontales {Belt), Greytown 

 {Holland i^) ; Costa Eica, Barranca, San Jose, Grecia, Turrialba {Carmiol ^), Irazu 

 {H. Rogers, v. Frantzius), La Palma {Nutting ^) ; Panama, Calovevora, Chiriqui 

 {Jrce), Paraiso {Hughes), Panama {M'Leannan ^^ i^). — South America, Colombia to 

 Guiana, Ecuador, Amazons valley, and Southern Brazil. 



Only one species of this genus is now admitted, the common M. pitangua, which 

 ranges throughout Tropical America from Southern Mexico to South Brazil. The only 

 specimen that at all departs from the normal type is a male from Presidio, near 

 Mazatlan ; this has the top of the head grey rather than black. It is the only record 

 we have of the existence of the species in Western Mexico, but without a larger series 

 for comparison we do not think it advisable to do more than note the fact of its differ- 

 ence. The northern range of M. pitangua does not extend quite so far as that of 

 Pitangus derlianus, Tampico being its limit on the eastern side of the cordillera. 

 Sumichrast speaks of it as frequenting both the hot and temperate country ^^. Our 

 specimens from this district were obtained from the slopes of the Cofre de Perote down 

 to the port of Vera Cruz. In Guatemala too its vertical range is very considerable, as 

 it is to be found as high as 5000 feet in the Volcan de Fuego down to the level of the 

 sea. It is one of the commonest birds throughout our region. 



MUSCIVORA. 



Muscivora, Cuvier, Le9. An. Comp. tab. 2 (1800) (type Todus regius, Gm. apud G. R. Gray, List 

 Gen. Birds, ed. 2, p. 42 (1842)) ; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 191. 



In this remarkable genus the development of the crest, characteristic of so many 

 species of Tyrannidse, is carried to a much greater extent than in any other form, and 

 constitutes one of its most marked features. 



Four species are now recognized as belonging to Muscivora, all of them strictly birds 

 of hot tropical forests of the Neotropical Region. The single species of our country is 

 found in such situations from Southern Mexico to the State of Panama, and in the 

 most northern parts of Colombia. M. occidentalis is the bird of Western Ecuador, 

 M. regia that of Guiana and the Amazons valley, and M. swainsoni that of the forests 

 of Eastern Brazil. 



