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Peru).— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Na(. Mas., xiv, 1893, 506 (Rio Escondido, 

 Nicaragua).— Benuire, Life Hist. N. Am. P.irds, ii, 1895, 256, pi. 2, fig. 7 

 (egg).— Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 438 (Volcan do Miravallos, Costa Rica).— 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 31 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz).— (?) Ber- 

 LEPSCH and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1902, 59 (Monterico, ii. 

 Peru).— Bailey (Florenc(> M.), Handb. Birds W. IT. S., 1902, 250.— Swarth, 

 Pacific Coast Avifauna, im. 4. 1904, 21 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona. brcH'ding; 

 habits). 



[Myiodrjnastcs] lutcicentris ScLATKriand Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 50. 



M[yiodynastcs] luleiventris Codes, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed.. 1884, 431; 5tli ed., 

 i, 1903, 517.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 332. 



Mytodinastes luteiventris Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 186. 



[Filangus] I Hteirentris Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 357, no. 5431. 



ritungus h(teircntris Nehukorn, Journ. flir Orn., 1881, 67 (Yucatan; descr. eggs). 



MYIODYNASTES MACULATUS NOBILIS (Sclater). 

 NOBLE FLYCATCHER. 



Similar to M. m. maculatus ,"■ but upper parts paler and under parts 

 less heavily streaked; similar to M. luteiventris in general coloration 

 of upper parts, but superciliary stripe yellowish and chin and sides of 

 throat whitish, the latter streaked with dusky. 



Adults (sexes aliJce). — Pileum and hindneck light brown, cinnamon- 

 brown, or buff y brown, more or less strongly (usually conspicuously) suf- 

 fused w^ith cinnamon or cinnamon-buff, streaked with black or dusky; 

 crown with a large concealed patch of bright yellow (lemon to cad- 

 mium), this sometimes tinged with orange-rufous; a superciliary 

 stripe of pale buffy j^ellowish or dull yellowish white, narrowly 

 streaked with dusky; back, scapulars, and upper rump, light grayish 

 l)rown or olive, usually more or less strongly suffused with buff or 

 pale buffy brown, the feathers with dusky shaft-streaks; lower rump 

 and upper tail-coverts cinnamon-rufous with narrow mesial streaks 

 of black or dusky; tail cinnamon-rufous, the rectrices dusky along 

 the median line, this broadest on middle pair, on the other gradually 

 expanding terminally; wings dusky, the lesser and middle coverts 

 broadly margined with light cinnamon-rufous and broadly edged with 

 buff or cinnamon-buff (more cinnamomeous on outermost coverts), 

 the primaries and distal secondaries edged with cinnamon, the inner 

 secondaries ("tertials") broadly edged with pale yellowish buff or 

 buffy white; loral region uniform dull black or dusky; auricular 

 region dusky, tinged or intermixed with brown; a broad suborbital 

 space or stripe of pale buffy yellowish or dull buffy whitish; malar 

 region whitish or pale buffy anteriorly, brown posteriorly, streaked 

 with dusky; under parts dull white, more or less suffused with prim- 

 rose or sulphur yellow, especially on sides and under tail-coverts, the 

 throat narrowly streaked with dusk}', the chest, sides, flanks, and 

 under tail-coverts more broadly streaked, the streaks broadest on 



a See the key on page 655, 



