BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. l7l 



lMyiadcs(cs[ iinicolor Sci.atf.i; and Salvin, Nom. Ax. Ncolr., 1S7:'., 4. 

 M{yia(lestcs\ iniirolnr Baikd. J?i;i:\VKit. and Rioowav. Ilisl. X. Am. J'.irds, i, 1871, 



409. 

 Myiadecten loiivolor Salvim and (Jodman, Biol. (\'nlr.-Ani., Av<'s, i, 1879, 41.— 



Shaiipe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 376. 

 M[yadestes] unknlor Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 573. 

 [Myiedestes] iinicolor Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 113. 

 [Ptilogonys] vnimlnr Gray, Hand-list, i, 1809, 366, no. r)r)74. 



MYADESTES MELANOPS Salvin. 

 BLACK-FACED SOLITAIRE, 



Adult male. — General color plain slate color, darker (nearly black- 

 ish slate) a])ove, paler (more slate-gray) below; forehead, lords, orbi- 

 tal region, malar region, chin, and npper throat uniform black; 

 remiges (except tertials) and larger wing-coverts black ; greater wing- 

 coverts and terminal half of remiges edged with slate color or slate- 

 gray, the basal portion of remiges crossed by a band of plain slate- 

 gray, followed by a broader band of uniform black (this broken by 

 narrow grayish edgings on primaries) ; tail black, the lateral rectrix 

 with outer web (except basally) and terminal third (more or less) of 

 inner web gray or brownish gray, the second rectrix with more or 

 less of the same color at tip; shafts of lateral rectrices white on under 

 side; inner webs of remiges crossed by a broad band of dull white; 

 bill yellowish (bright orange in life) ; iris brown ; legs and feet yellow- 

 ish '(orange in life); length (skins), 165-179 (173); wing, 84-91.5 

 (89); tail, 7-7-84 (79.5); exposed culmen, 10.5-13 (11.8); tarsus, 

 20-22 (20.8); middle toe, 14-15 (14.5). « 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, and perha|)s not always 

 distinguishable, but usually slightly duller in color, with back, etc., 

 slightly tinged with olive; length (skins), 166-179 (172); wing, 85-91 

 (88.2); tail, 67-81.5 (77.2); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.6); tarsus, 

 18.5-21.5 (20.7); middle toe, 13.5-15 (14.6).'' 



Young. — Above dark sooty brown, each feather with subterminal 

 median spot of light ochreous-brown or tawny (these markings nar- 

 rower, more streak-like, on pileum, larger and less distinct on rump 

 and upper tail-coverts), and margined terminally with sooty blackish; 

 under parts similar, but the spots larger, especially on chest ; renuges 

 and rectrices as in adults. 



Highlands of Costa Rica (Tucurrique; Dota Mountains; Kancho 

 Redondo; La Raima; Navarro; San Jose; Volcan de Irazu; Reors- 

 nada; Barranca; Cervantes) and Panama (Calovevora; Boquete; Vol- 

 can de Chin(|ni). 



Myiadeslcs mclanops Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864 (pub. AprQ 1, 18G5), 

 580, pi. 36 (Tucurrique, Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godnian); 1870, 180 

 (Calov.evora and Cordillera del Chucu, Veragua).— Baird, Review Am. 



« Ten specimens. ^> Nine specim ens. 



