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Show 754 MR. P. L. SCLATER ON [Dec. 5, Of this species I have examined a large number of specimens (ten in m y own collection, and eighteen in that of Messrs. Salvin and Godman), and have quite come to the conclusion that Dr. Finsch is right in saying that the so-called M. colombianus is not really separable. The series examined contains skins from every part of the Central American Isthmus, from Southern Mexico down to Panama, and from Columbia, Venezuela, and Trinidad, the last-named locality not being quite certain. The southern specimens are generally smaller in dimensions. In this bird the remiges are narrowly bordered externally with yellowish, and internally with pale fulvous. In neither case is there any decided rufous tint. I have a small Bogota skin of this species, which appears to agree very fairly with Heine f.'s description of his M. iderophrys (J. f. O. 1861, p. 197); and there are similar skins from Venezuela in Mr. Lawrence's collection. But, in spite of what Dr. Finsch says (P. Z. S. 1870, p. 569), I think the differences are not sufficient to establish a species upon. 6. MYIOZETETES GRANADENSIS. Myiozetetes granadensis, Lawrence, Ibis, 1862, p. 11 ; Sclater, Cat. A. B. p. 219; Sclater et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 359, 1867, p. 979, et 1869, p. 598. This is a very distinct species, about which there can be happily no question. I have skins of it from Honduras, Panama, Bogota, and Western Peru, and have compared them with Mr. Lawrence's type from Panama. M. granadensis is readily known from all the preceding species by the entire absence of the white eyebrows. The head is plumbeous, with a concealed median crest of bright scarlet (in the adult), and with the frontal feathers more or less whitish. The back is olive-green. The wings and tail are narrowly edged externally with greenish, and internally more broadly margined with pale yellowish. 7. MYIOZETETES SULPHUREUS. Muscicapa sulphurea, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 16, pl. 20. Tyrannula peruviana, Lair. Rev. Zool. 1853, p. 56. Myiozetetes sulphureus, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. ii. p. 61 ; Sclater, Cat. A. B. p. 220 ; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 109. About this species there can be also no question, its great size rendering it at once recognizable *. The concealed crest is of a fine orange-yellow. Mr. E. Bartlett brought two skins of this Myiozetetes in his latest collection from Chamicuros, Eastern Peru, one of which is now in Messrs. Salvin and Godman's collection. The only skin I have is also from Eastern Peru. Natterer obtained this bird in Central Brazil. 8. MYIOZETETES LUTEIVENTRIS. E/cenea luteiventris, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 71. * Long, tota 8, alse 4-3, caudae 31. |
