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Nidification. — (Unknown ? ° . ) 



Range. — Southern Mexico to southern Brazil. (Monotypic.) 



LEGATUS ALBICOLLIS iVieillot). 

 STRIPED FLYCATCHER. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum (except forehead) dark sooty b^o^v^l, 

 inclosino; a central concealed spot of lemon or canary yellow; back, 

 scapulars, lesser wing-coverts, and rump deep grayish brown or olive, 

 the feathers with more or less distinct paler margins; upper tail-coverts 

 similar but rather darker and usually more or less distinctly margined 

 with rusty, cinnamon, or fulvous; tail very dark sooty brown or black- 

 ish brown, the outer webs of rectrices narrowly edged w4th light olive 

 (nearly white, or yellowish white, on outermost rectrix), the inner webs 

 edged with pale grayish brown, pale rusty, or pale fulvous; wings 

 bro\\Tiish black, the middle coverts margined terminally (more or less 

 distiiytly) ^ with w^hitish, the greater coverts and secondaries edged 

 Avith the same, these whitish edgings much broader on inner second- 

 aries ('Hertials") and obsolete toward base of outer secondaries; pri- 

 maries very narrowly edged with pale gra3ash brown; a broad super- 

 ciliary stripe of dull white (sometimes faintly tinged with yellow), the 

 posterior (supra-auricular) j^ortion faintly streaked with grayish, the 

 anterior portion invading tlie forehead, where the two of opposite 

 sides usually are confluent; loral, suborbital, and auricular regions 

 dark sooty brown, the latter sometimes with minute shaft-streaks of 

 paler; malar region, chin, and throat white, the first flecked, more or 

 less, with grayish, the throat usually margined along each side by a 

 mtjre or less distinct submalar streak of grayish or sooty; rest of under 

 parts sulphur yellow, sometimes white or nearly so anteriorly, the chest, 

 breast (except medially), sides, and flanks broadly striped with brown- 

 ish gray or olive, the under tail and wing coverts with V-shaped or 

 cuneate streaks of the same; bill brownish black, the mandible more 

 brownish basally ; iris brown; legs and feet black. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but pileum without any yellow, and 

 often tinged with rusty; superciliary stripe pale buff or bufiy white, 

 the two of opposite sides confluent (or nearly so) on nape; middle and 

 greater -vving-coverts broadly margined terminally with rusty, cinna- 

 mon, or cinnamon-bulf ; rectrices edged with rusty, and imder parts 

 nearly (sometimes quite) immaculate. 



Adult male.~l^engt\i (skins), 131-160 (145); wing, 76.5-96 (84.9); 



a Eggs yellowish white, with a ring of cinnamon-brown spots round larger end. 

 (Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paul., iv, 1900, 233.) According to Mr. Gerald B. Thomas (in 

 letter), however, eggs of this species (from British Honduras) are "almost a uniform 

 chocolate brown, with here and there long wavy scrawls as in Orioh>s' (rctcntx) eggs." 



& These white markings sometimes obsolete in specimens in worn i)lumag(\ 



