PASSERES. 
Aves 65 
Tyrannic. 
Oh account of the important work done by P. L. Sclater and F. D. 
GodMan & 0. Salvin [q.v.] in this family, their views are giYen at some 
length below, with regard to various species. 
Agriornis pollens, A . insolens, A. solitaria figured ; P. L. SclatEr, Cab 
Birds Brit. Mus. xiY, pp. 7 & 8, pis. i-dii. 
Cocnotviccus, n. g. [for Todirostrum ( Serphophaga ) ruficeps~\ ; id. t. c. p. 86. 
Camptostoma flaviventre = Ornithion pusillum ; F. D. GodmAn & 0. 
Salvin, Biol. Ceutr. Am. pt. lxxii, Aves, V ol. ii, p. 31. 
Cnipodectes subbruneus figured ; P. L. Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus» 
xiv, p. 197, pi. xvi. 
Colopteryx inornatus, n. g. & sp. [ ? ], Diamantina, Lower Amazon ; R. 
Ridgway, P. U. S. Nat. Mus. 1887, pp. 519 & 520. 
Contopus vicinus , n. sp. [£], near C. virens, Swan I., Caribbean Sea ; 
id. t. c. pp. 576 & 577. 
Elainea , see Myiopagis , infra. E. barbadensis, n. sp. [ £ ] , Barbadoes, 
W. I. ; C. B. Cory, Auk, 1888, p. 47. E. r idle y ana, n. sp. [ £ ], Fernando 
Noronhal.; R. B. Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 107. E. arenarum 
(figured) must be removed to genus Sublegalus ; F. D. GodMan & 0. 
Salvin, Biol. Centr. Am. pt. lxxii, Aves, vol. ii, pp. 37 & 38, pi. xxxvi, 
fig. 3. E. semijlava, Lawr., = Capsiempis faveola ; E. subpagana , E. 
chiriquensis must be merged in E. pagana ; E. cinerescens, Ridgw., = E. 
inavtinica ; lid. t. c. pp. 29, 35, & 36. E. olivina figured ; P. L. Sclater, 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv, p. 146, pi. xii. E. subpagana and E. semi • 
pagana must be considered as synonyms of E. pagana ; E. cristata, E. 
albivertex, and E. griseigularis of E. albiceps ; id. t. c. pp. 138 & 142. 
Empidochanes salvini , n. sp. [= F. pcecilurus?, Salv., Ibis, 1885, p. 298], 
Venezuela and Brit. Guiana ; id. t. c. p. 218. 
Empidonax cineritius , n. sp. [ ^ $ ], near E. difficilis , S. of Lower Cali- 
fornia ; W. Brewster, Auk, 1888, pp. 90 & 91. 
Euscarthmus apicalis \cf. Zool. Rec. xxiv, Aves, p. 42], = Ceratotriccus 
furcatus ; P. L. Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv, p. 85. E. russatus, 
E. impiger figured ; id. t. c. pp. 82 & 84. pi. ix. 
Legatus variegatus must be merged in L. albicollis ; F. D. Godman & 
O. Salvin, Biol. Centr. Am. pt. lxxii, Aves, vol. ii, p. 39, and P. L. 
Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xiv, p. 156. 
Leptopogon erythrops figured : id. t. c. p. 119, pi. x. 
Leptotriccus superciliaris figured ; F. D. Godman & 0. Salvin; Biol. 
Centr. Am. pt. lxxii, Aves, vol. ii, pp. 18 & 19, pi. xxxvi, fig. 2. 
Megavhynchus chrysogastev = M. pitangua ; P. L. Sclater, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. xiv, p. 190. 
Mionectes assimilis should bo merged in M. oleaginous ; F. D. Godman 
& O. Salvin, Biol. Centr. Am. pt. lxxii, Aves, vol. ii, p. 23. 
Mitrephanes phceocercus tenuirostris , n. subsp., W. Mexico ; W. 
Brewster, Auk, 1888, p. 137. 
Muscivora occidental is, $ $ figured ; P. L. Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. xiv, p. 194, pi. xv. 
Myiarchus ferox, note on synonymy ; id. t. c. p. 253. M. berlepschi, 
n. sp., near M. oberi, St. Kitts, W. I. ; C. B. Cory, Auk, 1888, p. 266. 
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