Carriker : List of the Birds of Costa Rica. 687 



curriqui [Arce], Irazu district [Rogers]). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, II, 101 (Costa Rican references). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 

 438 (Miravalles). 



Laphycles satrapa Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., 1859, 77 (Guiana; Caracas, 

 Venezuela; ex Muscicapa satrapa Lichtenstein, manuscript, from Mexico). 

 — Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 1861, 251 (Costa Rica [Hoffmann, Frantzius, 

 and Ellendorf]). 



Tyr annus melancholicus var. satrapa Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 II, 1874, 288 (Mazatlan, Mexico). 



Tyrannus melancholicus satrapa Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 394 

 (La Palma de Nicoya). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1882, 496 

 (Irazu [Nutting]). — Zeledon, An. Mus., Nac. de C. R., I, 1887, 117 (Ala- 

 juela, Cartago, San Jose). — Cherrie, Auk, IX, 1892, 251 (San Jose; notes 

 on nesting); Expl. Zool. en C. R., 1890-1, 1893, 35 (Boruca and Buenos 

 Aires). — Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 700 (western and 

 southern Mexico, southward through Central America to Lower Amazon 

 Valley. — Costa Rica: San Jose, Grecia, Barranca, Sarchi, Volcan de Irazu, 

 Volcan de Miravalles, Santo Domingo de San Mateo, Jimenez, Alajuela, and 

 Juan Vinas). — Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 302 (Boruca [Underwood]). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Ridgway and Zeledon), El Copey, 



and Santa Maria de Dota (Basulto). 

 Bangs Collection: Bolson, Cerro de Santa Maria, Juan Vinas, El 



General, and Buenos Aires de Terraba (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum: Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford) ; Rio Sicsola, El 



Hogar, Miravalles, El Pozo de Terraba, Buenos Aires, and Pun- 



tarenas (Carriker). Sixteen skins. 



This is the most abundant and widely distributed flycatcher in 

 Costa Rica, being found over the entire country up to at least 5,000 

 feet and perhaps higher, wherever there is cleared land or open wood- 

 land. It is never found in the forest. Its habits are very similar to 

 those of Tyrannus tyrannus. The nest and eggs are also very simi- 

 lar, except that the nest is a much more flimsy affair. Three eggs are 

 usually deposited. 



438. Tyrannus tyrannus (Linnaeus). 



Lanius tyrannus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed, 10, I, 1758, 94 (based on Muscicapa 



corona rubra Catesby, Carolina, I, 55, pi. 55). 

 Tyrannus tyrannus American Ornithologists' Union Check-List, 1886, no. 444. — 



Ridgway, Birds N. and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 689 (temperate North America, 



south in winter through Mexico and Central America to Panama; no Costa 



Rican record). — Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 302 (El Pozo de Terraba 



[Underwood]). 

 Tyrannus pipiri Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 267 (no Costa 



Rican record). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1889,. 



97 (no Costa Rican record). 



