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any other of the species of this genus with which I have been able 

 to compare it, Tyr annus lugger i is, nevertheless, so very distinct as not 

 to need any special comparison. In size and general form it corresponds 

 almost exactly with T. carolinensis, while the bill is much more like 

 that of the latter species in size and shape than that of any of the 

 yellow-bellied group. The totally different coloration, however, allies it 

 more closely to the group represented by T. melancholicus, while the 

 broad-tipped primaries constitute a feature entirely unique in this genus. 



Although it seems rather strange that a new species of this genus 

 should be found in a district so well explored ornithologically as the 

 habitat of the present bird, I have nevertheless been unable to find a 

 description at all applicable to it. 



13. — TYR ANNUS AURANTIO-ATROCRISTATUS. 



Tyrannus aurantio-atrocristatvs, Lafr. & D'Orb., Mag. dc Zool. 18A7, 45 (Bolivia). — 

 D'Orb., Voy. Ois. 1839, 312 (Corrientes, Paraguay; Valle Grande, Bolivia). — 

 Burm., Reise La Plata, II, 1861, 453.— Scl. & Salv.,P. Z. S. 1866, 190 (Ucay- 

 ali, E. Peru); Norn. Neotr.,1873, 53.— Hudson, P. Z. S. 1870, 113 (Buenos 

 Ayres, rare ; Entre Rios). 



Tyranmis ynai, LlCHT., Nomencl. 1854, 16 (Brazil; Guiana). 



Tyrannus inca, Scl., P. Z. S. Nov. 26, 1861, 383 (Bolivia; Mus. P. L. S. et Berol. ; 

 ex "Licht. in Mus. Berol.") ; Catal. 1861, 237, No. 1453 (Bolivia).— Pelz., Orn. 

 Bras. 1871, 118 (Goiaz, Rio Vormellio, Serrado, and Cuyaba). 



? Tyrannua aurijlamma, BURM., J. f. O. July, 1860, 246 (Mendoza). 



£p. Oh.— Wing, 3.50-4.00; tail, 3.10-3.80; bill, from nostril, .40, 

 width at base ..'>(>, depth .liO; tarsus, .00; middle toe, .42. Tail even, or 

 (apparently) very slightly emarginated. Extreme end of outer primary 

 attenuated.* Above dull smoky slate, the wings and tail with narrow 

 paler edgings. Below mouse-gray, becoming paler and (in young at 

 least) somewhat tinged with pale sulphur-yellow posteriorly. Bill and 

 feet blackish. Adult: Entire pileum black, with a central concealed 

 patch of clear lemon-yellow. Young: Pileum smoky brownish slate, 

 like the back. 



Hab.— Bolivia (Lafr. & D'Orb.) ; Paraguay (D'Orb.)j Buenos Ayres 

 (Hudson); Brazil (Pelzeln); Pebas, Peru (Mus. Vassar College). 



Remarks. — This very strongly marked species is so very different 

 from the other Tyranni in both coloration and the details of external 

 form as to suggest strong doubts of its being properly referable to 

 this genus at all. It surely presents a very great contrast to T. mag- 

 nirostris. There are, however, such variations of form among the spe- 



*Dr. Selatcr, in his description of Tyrannus inca(].c), says that "the external pri- 

 maries are acuminated towards the points, the first three being also deeply cmn ruinated 

 4 inch from their, extremities. " This is very different from the shape of the quills in 

 the single specimen I have been able to examine (an immature female, belonging to 1 he 

 Museum of Vassar College), in which all the quills except the first are very broad at 

 the ends, the first only being emarginated and attenuated at the tip. This d iscrepancy 

 may, however, be owing to difference of sex or age. 



