66 TYEANNIDJE. 



MITREPHANES. 



Mitrephanes, Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 55 (1882) ; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. 



p. 218, vice 

 Mitrephorus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, p, 45 (nee Schonherr). 



The genus Mitreplwrus was founded in 1859 by Mr. Sclater upon M. phceocercus of 

 the Mexican and Guatemalan highlands, but the name being preoccupied, Mitrephanes 

 was substituted for it by Dr. Coues in 1882. 



According to Mr. Sclater the genus includes five species, as he, following Mr. Ridg- 

 way, includes Myiohius capitalis and Empidonax atriceps in it, as well as M. ochracei- 

 ventris of Peru, a bird we have not yet examined. M. capitalis and E. atriceps we 

 leave in the genera in which they were originally placed, so that we have only two 

 species to deal with, viz. M. phceocercus, already mentioned, and M. aurantiiventris of 

 Costa Eica and the State of Panama. 



In many respects M. phceocercus resembles Empidoimx, but the bill is narrower, the 

 margins not so convex, and with a well-defined concave curve towards the tip; the 

 rictal bristles are more fully developed, the nostrils more distinctly exposed ; there is, 

 moreover, a conspicuous crest formed of the prolonged occipital feathers, and the tail 

 is longer in proportion to the wings, thus, tail > i% wing, and in Empidonax trailli 

 <f wing. 



1. Mitrephanes phaeocercus. 



Tyrannula, sp.?, Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 296, no. 104 \ 

 Empidonax, sp. ?, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 302, no. 82 '. 

 Mitrephorus pfuBOcercus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1859, pp. 44 ', 366 *, 384 ' ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 122 ' ; 



Sumichrast, Mem. Best. Sec. N. H. 1. p. 557^; Lawr. Mem. Best. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 287^; 



Salv. Cat. Strickl. CoU. p. 313'. 

 Mitrephanes phceocercus, Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 210 '". 

 Mitrephanes phaocerctus tenvirostris, Brewst. Aui, 1888, p. 137*'. 



Supra obscure olivaceus, capite obscuriore; loris rufo-albidis ; alls et cauda fusco-nigricantibus ; alarum 

 teotricibus f ulvo terminatis : subtua ferrugineis ; mento, abdomine imo, paUidioribus : rostri maxUla 

 nigricante, mandibula pallida ; pedibus obscure corylinis. Long, total 5*0, alse 2*7, caudse rect. med. 2"25, 

 rect. ext. 2*45, tarsi 0*55, rostri a rietu 0-55. (Descr. exempl. ex Jalapa. Mus. nostr.) 



Juv. supra saturate brunneis, capite nigricante, plumis omnibus fulvo Umbatis. 



Edb. Mexico, Oposura in Sonora, Presidio near Mazatlan (/. C. Cahoon ^^), Mazatlan 

 {Bischoff^, Grayson % Ciudad in Durango {Forrer), Sierra de Valparaiso in Zaca- 

 tecas ( W. B. Richardson), Amula and Omilteme in Guerrero {Mrs. H. H. Smith), 

 Tetelco and Ixtapalapa {Ferrari-Perez), State of Vera Cruz {Sumichrast ''), Jalapa 

 {de OcaS Edge, M. Truyillo), Cofre de Perote {M. Trujillo), Talea {Boucard), 

 Cordova {SallS ^), Orizaba {F. D. G.), Oaxaca {Fenochio) ; Guatemala {Constancia^, 

 SUnner «), Cohan, Volcan de Fuego, Duenas, Eidge above Totonicapam, Quezalte- 

 nango {0. S. §• F. B. G.). 



