BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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bb. Olive-green of upper parts lighter and brighter; yellow of under parts brighter; 

 throat yellowish, streaked with olive. (Colombia.) 



Mionectes olivaceus galbinus ('oxlraliniital).o 



MIONECTES OLIVACEUS OLIVACEUS Lawrence. 

 OLIVACEUS MIONECTES. 



Adult male. — Above plain greenish olive or dull olive-green, duller 

 and slightly darker on pileuin; wings and tail grayish brown with 

 olive-green edgings, the middle wing-coverts and outer webs of greater 

 coverts greenish olive with more or less distinct terminal margins of 

 light yellowish olive or buffy olive; sides of head and neck greenish 

 olive, the former relieved b}" a short and rather indistinct postocular 

 streak of ]>ale yellowish olive or olive-whitish and narrow shaft- 

 streaks of same on auricular region; chin, throat, and upper chest 

 rather light olive, narrowly streaked with pale olive-jellow ish ; rest 

 of under parts light yellow (pale citron yellow or sulphur j^ellow), 

 the sides and flanks streaked w^th greenish olive; axillars and under 

 wing-coverts, light cream-yellow; bill dark brown or brownish black, 

 the basal half (more or less) of mandii)le pale brownish (in dried 

 skins); legs and feet horn brown (in dried skins); length (skins), 

 122-131 (127); wing, 65-70.5 (69.1); tail, 49.5-52 (50.6); exposed 

 culmen, 12-13.5 (12.6); tarsus, 16-17.5 (16.7); middle toe, 9.5-10.5 

 (10.2).^ 



Adult female. — Similar in coloration to the adult male but ninth 

 primary of normal form (not attenuated) and decidedly longer than 

 tenth; length (skins), 113-123 (117); wing, 60-68 (62.6); tail, 42.5- 

 50.5 (45.4); exposed culmen, 11-13.5 (12.4); tarsus, 15.5-17 (16.7); 

 middle toe, 9-10.5 (9.9).*= 



o Mionectes olivaceus (not of Lawrence) Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., xiv, 1888, 112, 

 part (Bogota, Colombia); Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 158 (Pueblo Viejo, 

 Santa Marta, Colombia); Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H , xiii, 1900, 149 (Minca, etc., 

 Santa Marta). — Mionectes olivaceus galbvnus Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii. 

 Mar. .31, 1902, 85 (La Concepcion. Santa Marta, Colombia, 3,000 ft. alt.; coll. E. A. 

 and O. Bangs). 



Not having seen specimens from Ecuador and Peru I am unable to express an opinion 

 as to whether the references to M. olivaceus from those countries pertain to the present 

 form or one still different. They certainly can not belong to true M. olivaceus. 



b Seven specimens. 



c Ten specimens. 



