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KEY TO THE SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF CRASPEDOPRION. 



a. Chest olive or t)live-greeni,sh. 



b. Wing-coverts margined with fulvous. (Soulhcastern lirazil.) 



Craspedoprion olivaceus (('X(raliniital)a 

 b. Wing-coverts margined with olive-gnnMi or yt-lldwish. 

 c. Chest paler (light grayish olive); wing-coverts margined with olive-yellowish. 



(Ecuador to southern Panama.) Craspedoprion sequinoctialis (p. 387) 



cc. Chest darker (olive-green); wing-coverts marginal with (ilive-green. (North- 

 ern Panama to southern Mexico.) Craspedoprion brevirostris (p. 3SS) 



aa. Chest brown or fulvous; tail brown. (Ecuador and Colomlna.) 



Craspedoprion fulvipectus (extralimital) b 



CRASPEDOPRION iEQUINOCTIALIS (Sclater). 

 EQUINOCTIAL FLYCATCHER. 



Adult male. — Above ])lain olive-green ; wings (except lesser coverts) 

 dusky with olive-green edgings, these becoming olive-yellow (some- 

 times somewhat buffy) on middle and greater wing-coverts and inner 

 secondaries; tail grayish brown (hair brown), the rectrices broadly 

 edged on outer wel)s with olive-green; a whitisli orbital ring (more 

 or less distinct) ; chin, throat, and chest light yellowish olive-green 

 suffused or obsoletely streaked with pale grayish olive ; rest of under 

 parts, including axillars and luider wing-coverts, light (between sid- 

 phur and naples) yellow, the inner webs of remiges edged with 

 cream-yellow" ; maxilla black, mandible pale colored (brownish white 

 or yellowish in dried skins); iris brown; legs and feet horn color or 

 dusky in dried skins; length (skins), 135-160 (150); mng, 68-76 

 (72.6); tail, 55.5-65 (61.5); exposed culmen, 14.5-16 (15.1); tarsus, 

 lS-18.5 (18.2); middle toe, 11-12 (11.4).^ 



Adult female. — Similar in color to the adult male, but edge of outer- 

 most primary normal (smooth); length (skin), 135; wing, 71; tail, 

 57.5; exposed culmen, 15.5; tarsus, 17.5; middle toe, 10.5.'^ 



Young. — Similar to adults, but upper parts duller olive-green, the 

 u])per tail-coverts and tail buffy olive or ochraceous-olive, and yellow 

 of under parts paler, more creamy (between primrose yellow and cream 

 color). 



Platyrhynchos olivaceus Temminck, PI. Col., livr. 2, Sept., 1820, pi. 12, fig. 1, and 

 text (Brazil). — T[odi(s] olivaceus Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 51. — Cyclorhynchns 

 olivacetis Cal)anis, in Wiegmann's Archiv. fiir Naturg., 1847, i, 24S.—R[hynchocyclus\ 

 olivaceus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 56. — Rhynchocyclus olivacevs Sclater, 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 220; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, }G5.—riatyrhynchus 

 nuchalis Maximilian, Beitr. Nattirg. Bras., iii, pt. ii, 1831, 971 (s. e. Brazil; type now 

 in coll. Am. Mus. N. H.; see Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. II., ii, 1889, 233). 



1 have not seen a specimen of this form. 



b Cyclorhynchus fulvipectus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., I860, 92 (Nanegal, w. 

 Ecuador; coll. P. L. Sclater). — Rhynchocyclus fulvipectus Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 220; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 167. pi. 13. 



This species I have not seen. 



c Four specimens (one from Panama City, three from Province of Santa Marta, 

 Colombia). 



d One specimen, from Panama. 



