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MYIOPAGIS PLACEN55 PLACENS ( Sclater). 



PLACID FLYCATCHER. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileuiii grayish brown (deep hair browai) 

 with a large central concealed patch of bright yellow (varying from 

 canary or lemon to slightly orange yellow) ; back, scapnlars, rump, 

 upper tail-coverts, and lesser wing-coverts, plain olive-green; tail 

 deep grayish brown (dark hair brown), the outer webs of rectrices 

 edged with olive-green; wings dusky with narrow olive-green edg- 

 ings, these broader and more yellowish (olive-yellow) on secondaries; 

 a narrow and usually broken or indistinct superciliary streak of gray- 

 ish wliite; a. dusky spot on lores at anterior angle of eye; auricular 

 region dusky grayish with narrow shaft-streaks of grayish white; an 

 indistinct postocular streak of dusky; chin and throat pale gray, the 

 chest deeper gray, strongly tinged with olive-green; rest of under 

 parts, including axillars and under wing-coverts, light yellow (sulphur 

 varying to nearly canary yellow), the sides tinged with olive; inner 

 webs of remiges edged with yellowish white; bill brownish black, the 

 basal half, more or less, of mandible pale brownish; iris brown; legs 

 and feet black or dusky (in dried skins) . 



Young. — Pileum, hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and lesser wing-coverts plain wood brown or Isabella color, 

 darker on pileum; no yellow on crown; otherwise essentially like 

 adults, but yellow of under parts paler (more primrose). 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 127-140 (133); wing, 63.5-69.5 (66.4); 

 tail, 60-67 (63.4); exposed culmen, 10-11.5 (10.9); tarsus, 16.5-19 

 (17.7); middle toe, 8.5-10 (9.2) .« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 120-136 (125); wing, 58.5-67.5 

 (62.1); tail, 53-63.5 (57); exposed culmen, 10-10.5 (10.3); tarsus, 

 16-18 (16.8); middle toe, 9-9.5 (9.2).^ 



o Eight specimens. 

 b Five specimens. 



Specimens from seijanue geographic areas compare in a^'erage measurements as 

 follows: 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe. 



I 



MALES. 



Two adult males from Vera Cruz 65. 5 



Two adult males from Yucatan and Campeche 65. 2 



One adult male from Cozumel Island 67. 5 



Two adult males from Chiapas 67 



One adult male from Honduras (Ceiba) 69. 5 



FEMALES. 



Three adult females from Vera Cruz I 60.3 



Two adult females from Cozumel Island 64. 7 



62.7 

 60.5 

 66.5 

 63.7 

 67 



55.3 

 59.5 



9 



9.2 



9 



9.2 

 9.7 



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