304 BT^T.T.ETTN ;!(), TtnTTED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



cc. R('c(riccs grayish, witlioiil while 1 ips, dc ; ;> hioad siiprahiral siripe of yellow. 



(Southeastern Brazil.) Todirostrum poliocephalum (extralimital)o 



})h. Throat white; whoh- head and neck, (>xcept chin and throat. l)h\ck. (Costa 



Rica to Ecuador. ) Todirostrum nigriceps (p. 366) 



an. Under parts not yellow; no black on pileum. (Southern Mexico to Colombia and 

 Venezuela.) Todirostrum schistaceiceps (p. 367) 



TODIROSTRUM CINEREUM FINITIMUM Bangs. 

 NORTHERN TODY-FLYCATCHER. 



Similar t(i T. c. chu'reum,'' l)iit averaginoj slisjhtly smallfM', ]iileinn 

 more extensively black, slate color of himlneck darker, and back more 

 frequently and more distinctly olive-green. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Forehead and more or less (sometimes the 

 whole) of crown black; occiput and nape (usually posterior portion 

 of crown also) dark slate color, more or less streaked with black, some- 

 times uniform slaty black or blackish slate; back, scapulars, rum]>, 

 upper tail-coverts, and lesser wing-coverts plain olive-green, the up])er 

 back often more or less inclining to slate color; wings and tail black 

 with yellowish olive-green edgings, these broader and clear sulphur 

 yellow on greater wing-coverts and inner secondaries, the middle wing- 

 coverts broadly tipped or terminally margined with sulphur yellow; 

 lores black, usually margined above by a narrow and indistinct line 

 of yellow, the latero-frontal antias also more or less (sometimes wholly) 

 yellow; suborbital region (narrowly) and postocular region black or 

 blackish, passing into blackish slate or slate color on auricular region 

 and sides of neck; malar region and entire under parts, including 

 axillars and imder wing-coverts, entirely sulphur yellow or canary 

 yellow; inner webs of remiges edged with brownish white; lateral 

 ])air of rectrices with outer web and tip (more or less broad) of inner 

 web white or yellowish white, the remaining rectrices also tipped with 

 whitish, in decreasing extent toward the middle pair; bill black or 

 l^lackish brown with paler tomia, usually witlt gonys and -lower basal 

 portion of mandible also light colored; iris white or yellow; legs and 

 feet dusky (in dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but yellow of under parts and wing- 

 edgings much paler (more primrose or straw). 



Adult /m/Zf.— Length (skins), 84-105 (93); wing, 41.5-46 (42.7); 

 tail, 31-36 (33.1); exposed culmen, 12.5-15.5 (14.8); tarsus, 17-19.5 

 (18.5); middle toe, 8-9 (8.6).'' 



oTodus poliocephalus Maximilian, Beitr. Natiirg. Bras., iii, 1831, 965 (Brazil; type 

 in coll. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.).— Todirostrum poliocephalum Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Ivond., 1857, 84; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 7^.—Triccus poliocephalus Btir- 

 meister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 496.— T\odirostrn7n]Jlavifrons Lafresnaye, Rev. 

 Zool., Oct., 1846, 361 (V.rsizW). —Eiiscarthmus minntus Bertoni, Av. Nuev. Parag., 

 1901, 129 (see Lynch-Arril)alzaga. Apunt. Crit. Av. Parag. Bertoni, 1902, 666). 



b See page 363. 



c Twenty-five specimens. 



