BIRDS OF WORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 755 



[Setopliaga] culmvora Gkay, Hand-list, i, 1869, 244, no. 3544. 



B(mleuterusbramri {notMuscicapabrasieri Girand) Sclatbe, Proc. Zool. iSoc. Lond., 

 1855, 66; 1856, 292 (Cordova, Vera Cruz) ; 1859, 374 (Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds', 

 1862, 34 (Oaxaca).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 303 (synom- 

 ymy) .— Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 274 (X'olcan de Fuego, Guatemala). 



BASILEUTERUS CULICIVORUS BRASHERII (Giraud). 

 BRASHER' S WARBJ.ER. 



Similar to B. c. cidiciutirK.s, but color of upper parts paler and more 

 yellowish gray, black lateral stripes of pileum narrower, and under 

 parts slightly brighter yellow: averaging slightly lai-ger. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 117-126 (121.2); wing, 60-63 (61.5); 

 tail, .52-57 (53.6); exposed culmen, 9.6-10.5 (10); tarsus, 19.5-20 

 (19.9).' 



Adidt female.— Length (skins), 112-119 (116); wing, 57-58 (57.3); 

 tail, 50.5-51.5 (51); exposed culmen, 9.5-10 (9.8); tarsus, 19-21 (20).' 



Northeastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Alta Mira; Ciudad 

 Victoria) and San Luis Potosi (Jilitla). 



Muscicapa brasierii (typographical error'*) Giraud, Sixteen Species Texan Birds, 

 1841, folio 25, pi. 6, fig. 2 ("Texas;" type in U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 66. 



Bcmkuterus brasheri Berier, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, Oct., 1880, 239 (corrects 

 spelling of specific name).^ 



BasUeuterus culicivorus (not Sylrki calkivora Lichtenstein) Ridgway, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 216; Nora. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 133.— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 692, part. — Richmond, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 632 (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas). 



B\asileuieruLs\ culmvorus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 531, part. 



BASILEUTERUS CULICIVORUS FLAVESCENS* Ridgway. 

 JALISCO WARBLER. 



Agreeing with B. c. hrasheri in lighter and more yellowish gray of 

 back, etc. , deeper yellow of under parts, and in larger size, but upper 

 parts still more strongly washed with olive-yellow, black lateral crown- 

 stripes broader (as in B. c. culicivorus), and yellow of under parts 

 still deeper; differing from both B. c. cidicivorus and B. c. hrasheri in 

 having the median crown-stripe almost wholly clear lemon or canary 

 yellow (the feathers without yellowish olive tips) and the superciliary 

 stripe lighter and more yellow. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 123-125 (124); wing, 61-62 (61.5); tail, 

 52-56 (54); exposed culmen, 9.5-10.5 (10); tarsus, 20-20.5 (20.2).^* 



' Four specimens. '' Three specimens. 



' Species named in honor of Mr. Philip Brasher, of Brooklyn, New York. 

 *Type, no. 156147, coll. U. 8. Museum (Biological Survey' collection), adult male, 

 San Sebastian, Jalisco, Mar. 17, 1897; Nelson and Goldman. 

 'Two specimens. 



