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leaving again towards the end of September. It usually resorted to openings in the 

 oak-forests, bushy ravines, and the fringes of wood along the streams. In its habits it 

 resembles M. crinitus in every way, building in old Woodpeckers' holes and laying 

 cream-coloured eggs marked and speckled with purplish-red dashes and blotches of 

 neutral tint. 



In Guatemala we found this species in several places, but chiefly on the flank of the 

 Cordillera between the volcanos of Agua and Fuego amongst the groves of oaks which 

 abound there. 



5. Iffyiarchus nuttingi. 



Myiarchus nuttinffi, Uiigw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 390^; Pr. Biol. Soc. Wash. ii. p. 92°; Man. 

 N. Am. B. p. 334 ^ Nutting & Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 374', 393 ' ; Scl. Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 250 '. 



M. cinerascenti similis, sed rosfcro paulo majore, caudae rectrioibus lateralibus in pogonio interno usque ad rhachi- 

 dem rufis. 



Eah. Mexico, Guanajuato, Tehuantepec, Chiapas (fide Eidgway) ; Nicabagua, Omotepe 

 I.^ and San Juan del Sur ^ {Nutting) ; Costa Eica {Carmiol^), LaPalma {Nutting). 



We know very little of this bird, which was separated by Mr. Kidgway on Costa Rica 

 specimens. It is closely allied to M. magister, but is of rather smaller dimensions, 

 though the bill is a little larger ; the chief difierence is in the tail, the inner web of the 

 lateral rectrices being rufous to the shaft *. 



b". Bectrices omnes nigricantes Jiaud rufo ornatoe. 



6. Myiarchus ferox. 



Musdcapa ferox, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 934'; Berl. Ibis, 1883, p. 139 \ 



Myiarchus ferox, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1860, p. 143'; Scl. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 253*. 



Myiarchus panamensis, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. pp. 284°, 295°, ix. p. 115'; Scl. & Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1864, p. 360 ' ; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 308 ' ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 199 ". 

 Myiarchus tyrannulus, Coues, Pr. Ac. Phil. 1872, p. 71 (nee Miill.) ". 



Supra olivasoenti-fuscus, capite obscuiiore plumis medialiter fuscis ; supracaudalibus brunneis ; alis nigri- 

 cantibus, extrorsum paUide fusco limbatis ; Cauda nigricante : subtus usque ad pectus cinereus ; abdomine 

 et aubalaribus sulphureis. (Descr. maris ex Panama. Mus. nostr.) 

 $ mari similis. 



Hob. Panama, Calovevora {Arc6 ^^), Lion Hill {M'Leannan ^ ^ ^)^ Paraiso {Hughes), 



* Myiarchus hrachyurus (Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 334) is no doubt included in the references to M. nut- 

 tingi given above, as it is based on one of Mr. Nutting's Omotepe specimens. Its claims to distraction rest on 

 its larger size, comparatively short taU, and rusty tail-coverts. With only a single Costa Rican specimen 

 supposed to belong to M. nuttingi before us, we are not in a position to give any opinion concerning 

 M. hrachyurus. 



