470 



BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



soiiiewliat l)(4iind eyo; lores grayish or dusky; auricular region olive- 

 gre(>nish, the anterior portion broken by narr()W shaft-streaks of pale 

 yellow, gradually passing into pale yellow on suborbital region; malar 

 region and entire under parts, including axillars and under wing- 

 coverts, canary or deep sulphur yellow, the chest usually faintly tinged 

 with olive; maxilla dusky brown or brownish black, mandible paler, 

 at least basally; iris l)rown;'^ legs and feet horn color or dusky (in 

 dried skins), bluish olive or slate color in life." 



Adult male.^Jjength (skins), 91-116 (107); wing, 49-52 (50.5); 

 tail, 38-50.5 (48.5); exposed eulmen, 10-12 (10.9); tarsus, 14-17.5 

 (16.7); middle toe, S-9.5 (8.5).^ 



Adultfemale.—hength. (skins), 97-112 (106) ; wing, 44.5-51.5 (48.4); 

 tail, 43-50.5 (46.3); exposed eulmen, 10-11.5 (10.7); tarsus, 15.5-17.5 

 (16.5); middle toe, 8-9 (8.4).& 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but upper parts tinged with cinna- 

 mon or russet, especially on hindneck; wing-bands tawny-buff, and 

 texture of plumage more lax. 



Nicaragua (San Carlos; Rio Escondido; GreytQwn), Costa Rica 

 (Pozo Azul; Jimenez; San Juan), and Panama (Panama City; Sabana 

 de Panama; Loma del Leon; David), and southward through Colom- 

 bia (Bogota), Venezuela (Caicara; Capuchin; Maipure; Altagracia; 

 La Pricion; Cumanacoa; Suapure), Cayenne, and low^er Amazon 

 (Mexiana) to Bolivia and southern Brazil (Bahia; Ypanema; Canta- 

 gallo; Novo Friborgo; S. Paulo). 



M[^iscicapa] Jhitfola Lichtenstein, Verz. DoiibL, 1823, 56 (Bahia, s. e. Brazil; 



coll. Berlin Mus.). 

 Muscipeta flaveola Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 488. 

 C[apsiempis] flaveola Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein.. ii, 1859, 56 (Brazil). 



a W. H. Phelps, manuscript. 

 b Ten specimens. 



The series which I am able to examine is not sufficient for determining the extent 

 and character of geographic variation (if any) in this species. 



