754 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adnlt /«/ia7(;.— Length (skins), 106-120 (111.9); wing, 55-62.5 (57); 

 tail, 48-54 (51.1); exposed culmen, 9-10.5 (9.8); tarsus, 18.5-20 (19.1).' 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Mirador; Cordova; Jalapa; 

 Orizaba; San Andreas Tuxtla), Puebla (Metlaltoyuca), Oaxaca (Pluma; 

 Coapam; Santo Pomingo; Teotalcingo), Tabasco (Teapa), Campeche 

 (Apazote), and Chiapas (Ocuilapa); Guatemala (Choctum; Cohan; 

 Khamkal; Volcan de Agua; Volcan de Fiiego); Costa Rica (Barranca; 

 Guaitil; Grecia; Dota Mountains; San Jose; Naranjo de Cartage; 

 Monte Redondo; Sabanilla de Alajuela). (No records for Salvador, 

 Honduras, or Nicaragua.) 



SyJv'ia ciilicivora Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 2, no. 78 (Mexico; 

 see Jourii. fiir Orn., 1863, 67). 



B[asileuterus'] ndirirorvs Oabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 17 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



Basileuterus culicii'orus Baied, Keview Am. Birds, 1865, 245, part (s. Mexico, 

 both sides; Ciioctum, Guatemala; Barranca, Costa Rica). — Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 95 (Barranca, Guaitil, Grecia, and Dota Mountains, 

 Costa Kica). — Sumichkast, Mem. Best. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (temp, region 

 Orizaba, Vera Cruz). — Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 i, 1874, 312, part.— CouES, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 335 (synonymy).— Boucaed, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 52 (San Jos6, Costa Rica) ; ListeOis. Guat, 1878, 

 30 (Guatemala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881,171, 

 part (Jalapa, Cordova, etc.. Vera Cruz; Teotalcingo, Oaxaca; Volcan deFuego, 

 Volcan de Agua, Coban, Khamkal, Choctum, etc., Guatemala; Costa Eican 

 localities) . — Sharpb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 383, part (Oaxaca; Jalapa; 

 localities in Guatemala and Costa Eica). — Zeledon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 viii, 1885, 105 (Costa Eica) ; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Eica, i, 1887, 107 (Sabanilla 

 de Alajuela, Naranjo de Cartago, Grecia, and Monte Redondo, Costa Eica).— 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 25 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz) . — Nelson, 

 Auk, XV, 1898, 159, part (Pluma, w. Oaxaca). ' 



IBasileuterus] cnl.icirorns Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 10, part. 



B\_asiUuterus] cuticivorus Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 531, part. 



IBaMleuterus'] culicivora Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 313 (Jalapa). 



' Twelve specimens. 



Specimens from different localities average as follows: 



