406 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Table of Proportions of North American Species. 



Current number of specimen. 



Locality 



Lycodespolaris. L. mucosus. 



10,930. 



Cumberland 

 Gulf. 



L. Vcrrillii. 



21.013. 



Off Nova Sco- 

 tia. 



L. Turneri. 



21,529. 



St. Michael' 

 "Alaska. 



Times in total 

 length. 



Length to end of middle caudal rays - 

 Body : 



Greatest height 



Greatest width '. 



Width at vent 



Height at ventrals 



Height at vent 



Head: 



Greatest length 



Distance from snout to nape 



( rreateal width 



Width of interorbital area 



Length of snout 



Distance of nostrils from eye 



Length of upper jaw 



Length of mandible 



Distance from snout to orbit 



Long diameter of eye 



Dorsal : 



Distance from snout 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray 



Anal : 



Distance from snout 



Length of first ray 



Length of longest ray 



Pectoral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Ventral : 



Distance from snout 



Length 



Scales 



Dorsal . . 

 Anal.... 



Pectoral 

 Ventral . 



7 inches ' 



(*) 



None. 



2 spines (.') 



Times in total 

 length. 



Times in total 

 length. 



(in 



(in 



430" 



9 



head) 8 

 8 



head) 

 head) 3 

 head) 4»- 

 head) 1? 

 4 

 10A 



head) 10 § 

 3i 



head) 5g 

 head) 4 



head) 

 head) 



3 4 r 



head) 11 

 None. 



90 

 71 

 18 



3 



127 mm 

 12$, 



(in head) 3£ 

 131 



(in head) 4jj 

 (in head) 2g 

 (in head) 5 

 (in head) 2 

 12 

 21 



(in head) 5i 



(in head) 5 

 (in head) 3J 



(in head) 6$ 

 (in head) 4" 



ll| 



(in head) 11 

 (t) 



92 

 88 

 15 



Times in total 

 length. 



330"" 1 



81 



9' 



(in head) 41 

 9 

 10* 



G 

 

 5f 

 33 

 5 

 2 

 7£ 

 14? 



(in head) 9 



(in head) 

 (in head) 

 (in head) 

 (in head) 



(in head) 5 

 (in head) 3? 



(in head) 5£ 

 (in head) 4£ 



4$ 



(in head) 6$ 

 None. 



85 

 G7 

 18 

 3 



Exceeds twice its breadth. 



t Upper part of dorsal and all of anal naked ; the rest scaly. 



DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES AND RACKS OF AMERICAN BIRDS, 

 INCLUDING* A SYNOPSIS OF THE GENUS TYRANNUS, Cl'VlER. 



By ROBERT KIDGWAY. 



I. — Synopsis of 1 he Genus Tyranny Curler. 

 Genus TYKANNUS, Cuvier. 



Tyrannus, "Cuv., Lecons Anat. Corap. 1799, 1800" (Agassiz). Type, Lanius tyrannu$ t 

 Linn. ?— Vieill., Ois. Am. Sept, I, 1807, 73.— Swains., Classif. B. II, 1837, 

 225.— (=) Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 170.— (» Caban. & Heine, Mns. Hein. II, 

 1859, 79 (restricted to T. carolinensis ; includes also Pitangus caudifasciatus !). — 

 (=) Gray, Hand-list, I, 1839, 3C4.— (=) B. B. & R., Hist. N. Am. B. II, 1874, 

 314. 



" Drymonax, Gloger, 1827" (Cabanis <j- Heine). 

 Myiarchm," Burm. 1850 " (nec Caban. 1844). 



