184 MNIOTILTID^. 



C. Sexus similes ; statura major ; alee rotundatoe ; rostrum magis elongatum, robustius 

 Cauda nigricans, rectricihus omnibus plus minusve alba terminafis. 



6. Setophaga lacrymosa. (Tab. XI. fig. 2.) 



Euthlypis lacrymosa, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 19 ^- Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 291 '; 1859, p. 363 'j Scl. & 

 Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 274*; Smnichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.i.p. 546 'j Lawr. Mem. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H.i.p. 270'. 



Basileuterus lacrymosus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 314'. 



Setophaga lacrymosa, Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 263 ' ; Salv. Ibisj 1878, p. 320 ". 



Suxjra scldstacea vix olivaceo tincta ; fronte et superciliis, loris et regione suboculari nigris, macula lorali efc 

 oiliis albis ; pileo medio sulphureo ; subtus ochraoeo-flava, gula et abdomine medio ilavescentioribus ; 

 bypoehondriis olivaceis ; crisso flavesoenti-albo ; rectricibus omnibus albo terminatis ; rostro nigro, pedibus 

 coryUnis. Long, tota 6-0, alse 3-0, oaudffi 2-S, tarsi 0*95, roetri a rictu 0"7. (Desor. maris ex Alotenango, 

 Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico '', Mazatlan [Grayson^), Lagunas {Mus. BeroU), temperate region of Vera 

 Cruz (Sumichrast ^), Cordova (SallS ^), Jalapa (de Oca ^), Santa Efigenia, Tehuan- 

 tepec (Sumichrast) ; Guatemala, Alotenango* and Savana Grande ^ (0. S. & F. D. G.). 



This peculiar and well-marked species, when first described by Dr. Cabanis i, was 

 made the type of a new genus, Euthlypis, a position Bonaparte held that it ought perhaps 

 to occupy'^- Prof. Baird, who paid considerable attention to the question when com- 

 piling his ' Review of American Birds,' however, only granted Euthlypis subgeneric 

 rank, calling the present bird Setophaga lacrymosa. This seems to be its proper place ^. 

 The bird is larger than any other species of Setophaga, and has a longer, somewhat 

 stronger, bill, in which respect it approaches Basileuterus. In having white tips to the 

 tail-feathers, which it displays in true Setophagian fashion, it seems rightly placed in 

 Setophaga. 



S. lacrymosa was first described from a specimen in the Berlin Museum, obtained 

 most probably by Deppe at Lagunas in Mexico, in which country it has since been 

 obtained by several collectors. Grayson, who found it at Mazatlan^, describes it as unlike 

 the Flycatchers in its habits, never remaining quiet a moment, but constantly hopping 

 about over old logs, on the ground, in the brush and low branches of trees, with its tail 

 spread, its actions in this respect being not unlike those of Granatellus. He speaks of 

 it as a common species near Mazatlan, where he only met with it in the dark woods 

 near the river. All his specimens were procured in the winter months. Prof. Sumichrast^ 

 includes it amongst the inhabitants of the temperate region of Vera Cruz, at elevations 

 lying between 1600 and 3300 feet. He says it is a rare bird, but that he obtained several 

 specimens in the woods covering the calcareous rocks of Penuela, near Cordova, at an 

 elevation of about 2300 feet above the sea. He describes its habits as different from 

 those of Setophaga, walking rather than hopping, and when on the ground to be 



