60 TTEANOTD^. 



at the end of the nasal fossa, the rictal bristles moderately developed ; the tarsi and toes 

 rather short. The wings are rather long, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th quills longest, 1st = 6th; 

 tail moderate and nearly square, > | wing, < 4 tarsus. 



1. Pjrrocephalus rubineus. 



Muscicapa rubinus, Bodd. Tabl. PL Enl. p. 42 '. 



Pyrocephalus rubineus, Cass. B. Cal. and Texas, p. 127, t. 18 ' ; Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. ii. 



p. 67 ' ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 296 * ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 211' ; Baird, Mex. Bound. 



Surv., Zool., Birds, p. 9 ° ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865^ p, 475 ' ; Scl. & Huds. Arg. Orn. i. p. 152 '. 

 Pyrocephalus mexicanus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 45 ', 366 ", 1864, p. 176 " ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 



xiv. p. 213"; Moore, P.Z. S. 1859, p. 56"; Scl. & Salr. Ibis, 1860, p. 399"; Sumichrast, 



Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p, 557" ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 201 '^ 

 Pyrocephalus rubineus var. mexicanus, Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 387"; Lawr. Bull. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 27 " ; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 287 ". 

 Pyrocephalus rubineus mexicanus, Sennett, Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 34 **, v. p. 409 ; Coues, 

 - KeyN. Am. B. (ed. 2), p. 444"; Perez^ Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 154"; Ridgw. Man. 



N. Am. B, p. 345 ^\ 

 Muscicapa coronata, Gm. Syst. Nat. i, p. 932 " ; Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog, p. 2 (cf . J. £. Orn. 



1863, p. 58'°)- 

 Tyrannula coronata, Sw, Phil, Mag. new ser. i. p. 367 '' ; Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p, 112". 

 Pyrocephalus obscurus, Scl, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 176 ^^ 



Supra obscure fuscus ; alis nigricantibus, extrorsum pallide fusco vix limbatis ; cauda quoque nigricante : 

 rectrica externe in pogouio extemo pallide fusca ; loris et regione parotica dorso concoloribus ; capite 

 summo et corpore subtus Isete cocoineis ; subalaribus fuscis : rostro et pedibus nigris. Long, tota 5-5, 

 alse 3-3, caudae 2-3, tarsi 0-7, rostri a rictu 0-65. 



2 . Supra cinerea ; capite summo ad frontem pallidiore ; alis et cauda nigricantibus, illis sordide albo limbatis : 

 subtus alba ; pectore fusco guttato ; abdomine aurantiaco. (Descr. maris et feminae ex Monterey, Ifuevo 

 Leon, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Bob. NoKTH America ^\ Southern California, Arizona, and Southern Texas ^ •^. — 

 Mexico ^^ [Bullock ^^), Topochico in Nuevo Leon {F. B. Armstrong), Realito in 

 Sonora [W. Lloyd), Mazatlan (Ferrer ^ Grayson ^^), Plains of Colima (Xantua ^^), 

 Amula, Chilpancingo, and Tierra Colorada in Guerrero (Mrs. H. H. Smith), Jerez 

 in Zacatecas, Calvillo, Aguas Calientes, Valle del Maiz, and Tampico (Bichardson), 

 Mexico city (White ^^^^), San Martin, Texmelucan, Tlaxcala, Jalapa (Ferrari- 

 Perez 22), Cordova (Salle), Jalapa (Salle, de Oca ^^, M. Trujillo), Cofre de Perote 

 (M. Trujillo), Orizaba, Morelia (F. B. G.), Oaxaca (Fenochio), Sta, Efigenia and 

 Tehuantepec city (Sumichrast ^^), Northern Yucatan (G. F. Gaumer), Merida 

 (Schott^^ Cozumel I. (G. F. Gaumer); British Hondueas, Orange Walk (G. F. 

 Gaumer), Belize (Blancaneuux) ; Guatemala (Constancia ^*), Pine Bidge of Poctum, 

 Santa Ana (0. S), Peten (Leyland ^^). — South America generally from Colombia 

 to Guiana and Argentine Republic ^ ^. 



On comparing freshly-moulted specimens from Northern Mexico with others from 

 South America in similar condition we find no grounds whatever for recognizing more 



