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in its relativel}^ much shorter and broader bill (cx])osed culmen shorter 

 than inner toe, without claw, and width at frontal anti» equal to more 

 than two-thirds the distance from nostril to tip of maxilla), and very 

 different coloration (brown above with russet edgings and bands on 

 wings, and without white crown-spot). I am also doubtfid whether 

 S. subflava Sclater and Salvin " is correctly placed here, its coloration 

 being still more different from that of true Serpophaga than is that of 

 ColorhmnpJmis pa rvirostris . 



KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF SERPOPHAGA CINEREA. 



a. Larger (wing of male 56-57, of female 51-55.5 mm. ) ; pileum more sooty black. 

 b. Gray of back, etc., deeper and browner; under parts deeper gray. (Peru and 



Ecuador; n. w. Bolivia?) Serpophaga cinerea cinerea (extralimital) & 



bb. Gray of back, etc., paler and clearer; under parts paler gray. (Highlands of 



Colombia.) Serpophaga cinerea cana (extralimital) c 



«. Smaller (wing of male 50-52, of female 48.5-50 mm. ; pileum deeper black (less 

 so(5ty). (Costa Rica and Panama.) Serpophaga cinerea grisea (p. 397) 



SERPOPHAGA CINEREA GRISEA (Lawrence). 

 BLACK-HOODED FLYCATCHER. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck plain slate-black with a small 

 concealed patch of white, or white streaks, in center of crown; back, 

 •scapulars, and rump plain gray (no. 6 or between this and cinereous) ; 

 the upper tail-coverts slightly darker; tail dull black, passing into 

 dusky grayish at terminal margin; lesser wing-coverts black cen- 

 trally, margined with gray; rest of wings dull black, the middle and 

 greater coverts margined terminally with gray or grayish white, the 

 inner secondaries edged with the same; sides of head (auricular, 

 suborbital, and loral regions) blackish, like pileum, fading into gray 



aSerphophaga subflava Sclater and Salvin, Nomencl. Av. Neotr., 1873, 158 (Para, 

 Brazil; coll. P. L. Sclater); Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 105. 



b Ei(scarthmus cinereus Strickland, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., xiii, 1844, 414 (" Chili " 

 coll. H. E. Strickland.) — Serpophaga cinerea Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 458 

 (Cuenca, Gualaquiza, and Xivarro, Ecuador). — 8[erp}iophaga'\ cinerea Cabanis and 

 Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 53 ("Brazil"). — Serphophaga cinerea Salvin, Cat. Strick- 

 land Coll., 1882, 304; Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 103, part (Riobamba, 

 Cuenca, and Sical, Ecuador; Bagantij Bolivia?). — L[eptopogon] cinereus Tschudi, in 

 Wiegmann's Archiv. fur Naturg., 1844, part i, 276. — Ellania} einerea Gray, Gen. Birds, 

 i, 1847, 250. 



c Serphophaga cinerea (not Euscarthmus cinereus Strickland) Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 211 part (Bogota, Colombia).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 512 (Colom- 

 bia); Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888,103, part (Bogota, Envigado, and Fron- 

 tino, Colombia); Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1888, 20, part 

 (Colombia). — Serpophaga ciyierea grisea (not Serpophaga grisea Lawrence) Bangs, 

 Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii, Nov. 11, 1899, 97 (Chirua, San Miguel, and La Concepcion, 

 Santa Marta, Colombia). — Serphophaga cinerea cana Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 xvii, May 18, 1904, 113 (Chirua, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 7,000 ft. alt., 

 Colombia; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



