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and placed in thorny trees. Eggs 3-5, 1.16 x .84, buffy white speckled and 
spotted (the markings mostly longitudinal), chiefly on larger end, with 
madder-brown and purplish gray. Hab. Middle America and northern 
South America, north to lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas. 
449, P. derbianus (Kaur). Derby Flycatcher. 
a’, Whole top and sides of head plain brownish slate, or dusky, becoming lighter 
and more ashy on forehead; middle of crown with a rather small concealed 
patch of brownish orange-yellow, or orange-rufous; back, scapulars, and 
rump plain slate-gray or dull ash-gray, slightly tinged with olive; wings 
dusky, the middle and greater coverts and tertials conspicuously margined 
with dull whitish, the quills narrowly edged with the same; tail dull black- 
ish, or dusky, tipped with dull light grayish, the outer web of lateral feather 
also dull light grayish; lower parts dull whitish, purer on throat and belly, 
faintly shaded with ashy on breast, and passing into pale sulphur-yellow on 
axillars, under wing-coverts, flanks, and under tail-coverts; upper tail-coverts 
broadly but rather indistinctly margined with rusty; length (skins) about 
8.00-8.50, wing 4.15-4.40, tail 3.40-3.90, exposed culmen .95-.1.00, tarsus .85- 
90. Hab. Bahamas........cccceceee P. bahamensis Bryant, Bahaman Petchary.! 
Genus MYIOZETETES Scuarer. (Page 327, pl. XCV., fig. 1.) 
Species. 
Adult: Crown and occiput dull brownish gray, enclosing a concealed patch of 
bright orange-red ; forehead and broad superciliary stripe white; lores, malar and 
suborbital regions, and ear-coverts deep brownish gray (darker than top of head), 
producing a very broad stripe along side of head; hind-neck and sides of neck like 
crown, but tinged with olive-green; back, scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, and rump 
plain olive, or dull olive-green, brighter posteriorly ; upper tail-coverts duller (some- 
times more grayish) olive, occasionally margined with rusty ; wings and tail dusky 
grayish brown, the feathers edged with paler—the secondaries (especially tertials) 
with distinct olive-yellowish margins; chin and throat white; rest of lower parts 
pure gamboge-yellow. Young: Similar to adult, but crown without the concealed 
orange-patch, white portions of head more or less tinged with yellowish, and larger 
wing-feather and tail-feather margined with light rusty. Length about 6.50-6.75, 
wing 3.65-4.00, tail 2.20-2.40, exposed culmen .50, tarsus .80. Vest similar to that 
of Pitangus derbianus, but smaller. Eggs .91 x .66. Hab. Middle America, south 
to Colombia, north to northern Mexico (and southern Texas ?). 
450. M. texensis (GrrauD). Giraud’s Flycatcher. 
Genus MYIODYNASTES Bonaparte. (Page 326, pl. XCIIL, fig. 1.) 
Species. 
Common Cuaracters.—Above brownish, striped with black, the lower rump, 
upper tail-coverts, and tail rufous, streaked medially with black ; wings dusky, with 
1 Pitangus bahamensis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. ix. 1864, 279. 
