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Show 1870.] DR. O. FINSCH O N T H E BIRDS OF TRINIDAD. 569 means confined to Bolivia. Natterer obtained specimens at Borba on the Rio Madeira; and Mr. Salvin got specimens from Costa Rica and Panama. FLUVICOLIN^E. 47. FLUVICOLA PICA (Bodd.); Scl. Cat. p. 200 ; Leot. p. 205 ; Taylor, I. c. p. 85. One specimen, not different from Brazilian ones. Fam. TYRANNIDiE. 48. MYIOZETETES INORNATUS, Lawr.; Ann. Lye. New York, ix. (1869) p. 268. One specimen, apparently an old bird, agreeing with the description of Mr. Lawrence. This seems to be a very good species, characterized by having the whole upper part of head dark brownish black, without a bright vertical spot; a broad white band covers the forehead and runs above the eye and temples round the occiput; the feathers on the occiput are somewhat lengthened, more than usually in this genus. Long. al. rectr. med. rostr. lat. rostr. tars. dig. med. 3" 7'" 3" 5i'" 3|"' 10'" 5|'" This species is not mentioned by Dr. Leotaud. Mr. Lawrence describes the bird from Valencia in Venezuela. There seems to be still some confusion existing about the members of this difficult group. The short diagnoses given by Dr. Cabanis in the 'Museum Heineanum' are by no means sufficient to distinguish the species. The following notes, therefore, will be of some interest, giving revisional notices of some species. Myiozetetes similis, Spix (Elainea miles, Burm., nee Neuw.; M. similis, Scl. Cat. p. 219). The Bremen Collection possesses two specimens from Brazil, agreeing very well with the description and figure given by Spix. The back is dirty olive-green, the vertex bright red; the remiges and rectrices are edged externally with dull olive-green; the remiges are bordered broadly on the basal portion of the inner web with pale yellowish. Elainea cayennensis, described in the 'Fauna Peruana' (p. 158), is apparently this species. Myiozetetes texensis, Giraud. Like the preceding, but the back darker and more decidedly green, the coronal patch darker red, and the dimensions rather large. I do not believe that M. columbianus, Cab., is really separable (vide Journ. f. Orn. 1861, p. 245). This species is widely distributed from Mexico and Central America to Bogota, Ecuador, and Venezuela. For its occurrence in Texas further evidence seems to be necessary; Mr. Baird has not included this species in his ' Birds of the United States.' Myiozetetes cayennensis, L. (Scl. p. 219). This species, although nearly allied to the two foregoing, is very well characterized by having the remiges on the inner web very broadly margined with rufous; the quills and tail-feathers are also externally margined with rufous. |
