EMPIDONAX. 71 



Euatan I. (Oaumer) ; Costa Rica {Endres) ; Panama {M'Leanmn ^ ").— Ecuador ; 

 Cuba. 



A species of the Eastern States of North America, whose southern migration in 

 winter extends to Ecuador, and it is also found sparingly in the southern portion of 

 Central America ; it has been recorded from Yucatan, and we have received several 

 specimens from the island of Ruatan, but its southern range does not appear to spread 

 westwards into Mexico or Guatemala. 



Its breeding-ground is certainly in the middle districts of the United States, but 

 Mr. Dresser states that it is not uncommon in Texas in summer 2. Its nest is described 

 as made of strips of bark or stalks of weeds woven loosely together so as to make a very 

 slight structure, so thin that the eggs may be seen from below. It is placed in the 

 fork of a small branch from six to ten feet from the ground. The eggs are rich cream- 

 colour with a reddish-brown shade, and marked irregularly at the larger end with vivid 

 blotches of red and reddish brown. 



4. Empidonax trailli. 



Muscicapa trailli, Aud. Orn. Biogr. i, p. 236 ' ; B. Am. i. p. 234, t. 65 '. 



Empidonax trailli, Baird, B. N. Am. p. 193'; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii. p. 8^ ix. pp. 114', 201°; 



Cones, Birds N. W. p. 252'; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 226'. 

 Empidonax trailli, vax.pusillm, Henshaw, U. S. Geogr. Surv. West 100th Mer. v. p. 356°; Lawr. 



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

 Empidonax pusillus, var. trailli, Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 369". 

 Empidonax pusillus trailli, Ridgw. Ibis, 1886, p. 464"; Man. N. Am. B. p. 343". 

 Platyrhynchus pusillm, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 366 (? ?) ". 

 Empidonax pusillus , Baird, B. N. Am. p. 194"; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 557"; 



Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 366 " ; Nutting & Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. 



p. 384 " ; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 225 ". 



E. acadico similis, sed supra magis fuscus et alarum fasciis fuseeseentioribus : subtus quoque grisescentior, Cauda 

 sequali fere rotundata. 



Hah. North America generally, from Sitka southwards. — Mexico, Mazatlan {Grayson ^^), 

 Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria in Tamaulipas, Vera Cruz {Eichardson), 

 Orizaba {Sumichrast^''), Tehuantepec citry {Sumichrast ^^), Merida in Yucatan 

 {Schott^); Guatemala, San Jose de Guatemala (6>. ;S'.) ,• Costa Eica, Dota (Car- 

 miol 5) ; Nicaragua, Sucuya {Nutting 2°) ; Panama {M'Leannan *). — Ecuador. 



We agree with Dr. Coues in considering Swainson's name Tyrannula pusilla of diffi- 

 cult, if not of impossible, application, and as the type is no longer extant, we see no 

 hope of its being identified with certainty. It has usually been considered to refer 

 to the species described and figured in the 'Fauna Boreali- Americana ' under this 

 name; but the original description was based upon a specimen from the "maritime 

 parts of Mexico," and it is thus possible that the bird with its " even tail " we now 

 know as E. fiamventri% was that originally described by Swainson as T. pusilla, whereas 



