484 BULLETIN 50, UNITP:!) STATES NATTdNAL MUSEUM. 



and sLxtli, successively, slightly shorter, ninth ecjual to or longer than 

 fifth, tenth (outermost) intermediate between third and fourth. 

 Tail nearly as long as wing, even or slightly emarginate, the rectrices 

 widening terminally. Tarsus more than one-fifth as long as wing 

 (about one and a half times as long as middle toe without claw), 

 its scutellation typically exaspidean; the acrotarsial divisions indis- 

 tmct on outer side; basal phalanx of middle toe entirely united to 

 outer toe (the adhesion involving a slight portion of second phalanx 

 also), more than half united to inner toe; outer toe, without claw, 

 nearly as long as middle toe (reaching to terminal joint of the latter), 

 the inner toe conspicuously shorter, reaching (without claw) barely 

 to middle of subterminal phalanx of middle toe; hallux slightly longer 

 than inner toe, considerably but not conspicuously stouter, its claw 

 shorter than the digit; all the claws moderately curved, sharp, nuich 

 compressed. 



Coloration. — Above })lain brown, becoming russet on tail; lieneath 

 paler brown, becoming more grayish on breast and passing into pale 

 yellowish on abdomen. 



Nidijicatiori. — (Unknown.) 



Range. — Panama to Peru. (Two species.) 



KEY TO THE SPECIES OF CNIPOUECTES. 



n. Larger (wing 89-94, tail 80.5-84, exposed culiueii 1().5-17, tarsus ]S-18.5.) (Panama 



to western Ecuadnr.) Cnipodectes subbrunneus (p. 484) 



aa. Smaller (wing 71.5-74, tail 64-68, exposed culraen 15-16, tarsus 17.) (Panama to 

 Peru.) * Cnipodectes minor (p. 485) 



CNIPODECTES SUBBRUNNEUS (Sclater;. 

 BROWN FLYCATCHER. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Above plain olive-brown, passing into russet 

 or mars brown on upper tail-coverts and tail; wings dusky, the sec- 

 ondaries broadly edged with buff, the middle coverts tipped, the 

 greater coverts edged, with light brown or buffy brown, the primaries 

 narrowly and rather indistinctly edged with grayish and passing into 

 brownish gray terminally; sides of head, neck, and chest olive-brown, 

 slightly lighter than that of upper parts, passing into pale grayish 

 brown on chin and tlu-oat; light olive-brown of chest passing on sides 

 and upper breast into pale grayish brown, this into pale bufty yellow 

 or yellowish white on abdomen; under tail-covert slight buffy brown 

 or cinnamon-brown; axillars and under wing-coverts pale buffy brown 

 or dull buffy cinnamon; inner webs of secondaries broadly edged with 

 cinnamon-buff, the primaries with edgings more whitish; maxilla 

 dusky brown, mandil)le wholly whitish (in dried skins); his dark 

 brown ; legs and feet light brownish (in dried skins) . 



