444 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



c. Inner webs of remiges and outer webs of distal secondaries and proximal pri- 

 maries edged with cinnamon or wood brown; color of back, etc., darker and 

 more brownish olive. (Brazil, south of Amazon River, to eastern Peru.) 



Myiozetetes similis (extralimital).o 

 cc. Inner webs of remiges edged with pale yellowish buff, outer webs of distal sec- 

 ondaries and proximal primaries edged with pale olive. (Myiozetetes texen- 

 sis.) 

 d. Larger (wing of male averaging 93.4, of female 90.3 ) ; gray of pileum averaging 

 darker, middle and greater wing-coverts with indistinct (if any) paler ter- 

 minal margins ; b yellow of under parts averaging paler. (Southern Mexico 



to Costa Rica.) Myiozetetes texensis texensis (p. 44(5) 



dd. Smaller (wing of male averaging 80, of female 83. 9j ; gray of pileum averaging 

 paler; middle and greater wing-coverts with distinct terminal margins of 

 paler; yellow of under parts averaging deeper. (Panama, Colombia, Ven- 

 ezuela, and Trinidad.) Myiozetetes texensis columbianus (p. 449) 



aa. No white sui^erciliary stripe, the whole pileum being gray (except for central con- 

 cealed orange-red patch), passing into whitish on forehead and supraloral region. 

 (Nicaragua to Peru.) Myiozetetes granadensis ( p. 450) 



MYIOZETETES CAYANENSIS CAYANENSIS (Linnaeus). 

 CAYENNE FLYCATCHER. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum dark sooty l)ro\vn or blackish brown, 

 with a large central, mostly concealed, patch of bright orange (varying 

 to reddish orange and yellowish orange) ; a broad white superciliary 

 stripe, the two of opposite sides confluent on forehead and sometimes 

 nearly so on nape or lower occiput; loral, orbital, and auricular regions 

 and sides of neck plain dark sooty brown or blackish brown; hindneck, 

 l)ack, scapulars, rump, upper tail-coverts, and lesser wing-coverts, 

 plain olive; wings (except lesser coverts) and tail deep grayish brown, 

 the rectrices, inner secondaries, and larger wing-coverts edged with 

 light olive, the distal secondaries and proximal primaries edged with 

 rusty or cinnamon-rufous, the larger primaries narrowly edged with 

 paler rusty or rusty brownish; chin and throat white; rest of under 

 parts, including axillars and under wing-coverts, uniform bright 

 canary on lemon yellow; inner webs of remiges broadly edged with 

 cinnamon; bill, legs, and feet black; iris brown. 



o- Musdcapa similis Spix, Av. Bras., ii, 1825, 18, pi. 25 (Amazon Valley). — -Mlyiozete- 

 tes] similis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 61 (Brazil). — Myiozetetes similis 

 Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 292; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 161; Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1888, 41, part. — Muscipeta cayennensis (not 

 Musdcapa cayanensis Linnaeus) Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny, Mag. de ZooL, 1837 (Syn- 

 opsis Avium, p. 47). — Elainea cayenensis Tschudi, Fauna Peruana, Aves, 1845, 148. — 

 Myiozetetes cayenensis (not of Sclater, 1859) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1867, 978 (Pebas, e. Peru), 1869, 598 CPern). —Elaenea miles Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. 

 Bras., ii, 1856, 474 (Lagoa Santa and Congonhas, Brazil). — ('?)T[tjranniila]superciliosa 

 Sw[ainson] (not of Bonaparte, 1837) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 190 (Brazil). 



b Except in specimens from Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which are in other respects 

 also intergrades. 



