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Pozo Azul de Pirris, but in the extreme southwestern portion it is replaced 

 by M. t. columbianus. The habits of this bird are so well known that 

 no description of them is necessary. 



483. Legatus albicollis (Vieillot). 



Tyrannus albicollis Vieillot, N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., XXXV,i8i9, 89 (Paraguay). 



Legatus albicollis Sclater, P. Z. S., 1859, 46, in text. — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., IX, 1868, 112 (San Jose, Guaitil, and Turrialba [J. Carmiol]).— Frant- 

 zius, Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 307 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 63 

 (Juan Vinas, several). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XIV, 1888, 155 

 (San Jose [Carmiol], Tucurriqui and La Barranca [Arce]). — Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1888, 38 (Costa Rican references). — 

 Cherrie, Auk, IX, 1892, 250 (San Sebastian de San Jose); Expl. Zool. en 

 C. R., 1890-1, 1893, 33 (Terraba and Buenos Aires). — Ridgway, Birds N. 

 and Mid. Amer., IV, 1907, 439 (S. E. Mexico to Paraguay. — Costa Rica: 

 San Jose, Tucurriqui, Barranca de Nicoya, Turrialba, Guaitil, Naranjo, 

 Navarro, Reventazon, Pozo Aziil de Pirris). — Bangs, Auk, XXIV, 1907, 302 

 (Boruca [Underwood]). 



Legatus variegalus Cabanis, Jour, fur Orn., 1861, 245 (Costa Rica). — Law- 

 rence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 112 (San Jose [Frantzius]). — Frantzius, 

 Jour, fur Orn., 1869, 307 (Costa Rica). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Guayabo (Ridgway and Zeledon), Bonilla (Basulto). 

 Bangs Collection: San Jose, Reventazon, Pozo Azul de Pirris, Buenos 



Aires, and El General de Terraba (Underwood). 

 C. H. Lankester Collection: Tuis and Guanacaste. 

 Carnegie Museum: Juan Vinas, Guaitil, Miravalles, Bagaces, Esparta 



(Carriker). Eleven skins. 



This flycatcher at once attracts attention on account of its peculiar 

 streaked appearance and the strikingly melancholy note which it frequently 

 utters. Its habitat is about the same as that of Elcenia and Tyrannus 

 melancholicus, in company with which it is frequently found in open wood- 

 lands, by roadsides, edges of forests, and banks of streams. Its range ex- 

 tends between 2,000 and 3,500 feet on the Caribbean side, and between 

 sea-level and 3,000 feet on the Pacific slope. It is not an abundant bird 

 in any locality, only a pair occurring here and there. I took a nest with 

 three badly incubated eggs st Guaitil on May 4, 1902. The manner of 

 the construction of the nest ol this species seems to point to a close rela- 

 tionship with the genus Myiozetetes, for the nests are built in precisely 

 the same manner. It is an elbow-shaped structure, made of weed-stalks 

 and grass, and hung in an upright crotch of a small tree, so that each end 

 is some inches lower than the middle. The opening is from below, at one 



