472 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Tyrannu8 pipiri, Vieill., Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 73, pi. 44.— Caban., J. f. O. 1855, 

 478 (Cuba).— Scl., Catal. 1862, 236, No. 1451.— Guxdl., Report. 1835, 239 

 (Cuba).— Scl. & Salv., P. Z. S. 1836, 189 (Nauta, R. Ucayali, E. Peru!*); 

 1870, 837 (coast Honduras); Nom. Neotr. 1873, 53 ("Am. ceutr. et ruerid. ad 

 Boliviam").— Coues, Proc. Phila. Acad. 1871, 26. 



Tyrannus intrepidus, Vieill., Enc. Moth. Ill, 1823, 849; Gal. Ois. I, 1824, 214, pi. 133.— 

 Swains., Philos. Mag. I, 1827, 368; Quart. Jour. XX, 1826, 274.— Sw. & Rich., 

 F. B. A. II, 1831, 137.— Boxap., Comp. List, 1838, 24.— Woodh., Sitgr. Rep. 

 1853, 73.— Scl., P. Z. S. 1857, 232; 1858, 302 (Oaxaca); 1859, 383 (Oaxaca; 

 March, February), 439 ("whole of Mexico").— Scl. & Salv., Ibis, 1859, 120 

 (Guatemala).— MOORE, ib. 55 (Honduras).— Sumichr., Mem. Bost. Soc. I, 

 1869, 557 (Vera Cruz). 

 Myiarchus intrepidus, Burm., Verz. Mus. Hal. p. 46. 



Museieapa animosa, Liciit., Verz. Doubl. 1823, 54. 



Tyrannus leucogaster, Stephens, Gen. Zool. XIII, ii, 1826, 132. 



Tyrannus viciUoiii, Swains., P. B. A. II, 1831, 138 (based on Vieill., Gal. Ois. pi. 133). 



King Bird; Bee Bird; Bee Martin, Vulg. 



Sp. Ch.— Wing, 4.45-4.75; tail, 3.40-3.75; bill, from nostril, .50-.57, 

 depth at base .24-.2 7, width .37-.40 ; tarsus, .70-.78; middle toe, .55- 

 .GO. Adult: Above black, becoming plumbeous on the back, scapu- 

 lars, and rump; large wing-coverts and remiges edged with whitish; 

 upper tail-coverts bordered with white, and tail broadly tipped with the 

 same. Below pure white, strongly shaded with ash-gray across the jagu- 

 luin. Middle of the crown with a concealed patch of bright orange-red. 

 Young: Above dusky brownish slate, the wing-coverts bordered with 

 pale fulvous, the remiges with dull whitish; upper tail-coverts bordered 

 with pale rusty; tail tipped with pale fulvous, or brownish white. Be- 

 neath as in the adult, but jugulum tinged with pale fulvous. Xo colored 

 patch on vertex. 



Hab. — Temperate North America, except parts of the Pacific and Mid- 

 dle Provinces; Middle America, and Western South America to Bolivia; 

 Cuba and Bahamas. 



REMARKS. — Xo difference is perceptible, either in color or proportions, 

 between specimens from Tropical America and those from the United 

 States, although the former may, perhaps, average a trine smaller. 

 Western examples are likewise identical with Eastern. The species 

 breeds at least as far south as the Isthmus of Panama, as is evident 

 iron) young specimens, in firstplumage, in the National Collection, from 

 the line of the Panama Railroad. 



5.— TYRANNUS CRASSIROSTRIS. 



Tyrannus crassirostris, 6 WAINS., Quart. Joura. Sci. XX, 1823, 278; Philos. Mag. 1827, 

 368.— Scl., Ibis, 1859, 439 (Mazatlan) ; Catal. 1801, 236, No. 1448 (Mazatlau, W. 

 Mexico).— Scl. & Salv., Ibis, 1860, 399 (Escuintla).— Lawr., Bull. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus. No. 4, 1876, 28 (Chihuitan, Tehuautcpcc, and Los Cues, Oaxaca). 



* " Indistinguishable from North American specimens." Said to have been seen by 

 D'Orbigny as far South as Sta. Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia ! 



