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half as long as tarsus, its basal phalanx united for less than its entire 

 length to outer toe, for barely half its length to inner toe; outer toe, 

 without claw, reaching to or beyond middle of subterminal phalanx of 

 middle toe, the inner toe slightly but decidedly shorter; hallux about 

 as long as inner toe, but decidedly stouter, its claw^s shorter than the 

 digit; all the claws rather large, strongly curved, sharp. 



Coloration. — Above plain brown, olive, or olive-green, the crown 

 with a concealed spot of yellow or orange-rufous, the wing with two 

 fulvous bands; beneath buffy whitish, streaked on chest, etc., with 

 brown, or yellowish shaded on chest and sides with olive. 



Nidification. — Nest (of M. nsevius) placed in a bush or low tree, 

 open above, compact, composed of various soft materials, lined with 

 feathers, etc. Eggs cream color or creamy white, spotted with reddish 

 brown, mostly in circle around larger end. 



Range. — Panama to Peru, Argentina and Guiana. (About eleven 

 species, including subspecies, all but one of them extralimital to the 

 present work.) 



KEY TO SUBSPECIES OF M^i^lOPHOBUS FASCIATUS. 



a. Pileum dull cinnamon-l)rownish with concealed patch of yellow or rufous; back, 



rump, and upj^er tail-coverts cinnamon-brown or raw umber; wing-bands buff. 



(Adults.) 



h. Under parts strongly yellowish, with chest less distinctly streaked; smaller 



(adult male averaging wing 55.9, tail 48.5). (Panama, including San Miguel 



and Saboga islands.) Myiophobus fasciatus furfurosus (p. 548) 



hh. Under parts less strongly yellowish, with chest more distinctly streaked; brown 

 of upper parts darker; larger (average measurements exceeding those given 

 above). 

 c. Smaller (adult male averaging wing 58.5, tail 52.8, exposed culmen 10.4, tarsus 

 16.2, middle toe 8.8; adult female, wing 55.7, tail 49.7, exposed culmen 10, 

 tarsus 16, middle toe 8). (Colombia to Trinidad, Guiana, and southern 

 Brazil.) Myiophobus fasciatus fasciatus (extralimital) a 



a Muscicapa fasdata Muller, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 172 (Cayenne; based on PL 

 Enl., 574, fig. 3; see Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1864, 256; Berlepsch and 

 Hartert, Novit. ZooL, ix, 1902, 49, footnote). — Muscicapa naevia Boddaert, Tabl. PL 

 Enl., 1783, 34 (Cayenne; based on PL Enl., 574, fig. 3). — Myiobius nsevius Sclater, 

 Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1860, 466; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 227 (Brazil; Trinidad); 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 209, part. — M[yiophobus] nsevius Cabanis and Heine, 

 Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 69 (Brazil). — YMusdcapa'] virgata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 

 1788, 948 (Cayenne; based essentially on PL Enl., 574, fig. 3). — Musdpela virgata 

 D'Orbigny, Voy. Am. Merid., Ois., 1839, 320. — Mlyiarchus] virgatus Cabanis, Wieg- 

 mann's Archiv. fiir Naturg., 1844, 248. — [Pyrocephalus] virgatus Bonaparte, Consp. 

 Av., i, 1850, 188. — Platyrhynchus chrysoceps S-pix, Av. Bras., ii, 1825, 10, pi. 11, fig. 2. — 

 Musdpeta chrysoceps Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iii, 1831, 940. — T[yrannula] 

 chrysoceps Hartlaub, Verz. Mus. Brem., 1844, 49. — M[yiobius] chrysoceps Gray, Gen. 

 Birds, i, 1847, 249 .^ Musdcapa flammiceps Temminck, PL Col., livr. 24, July, 1822, 

 pi. 144, fig. 3 (Brazil). — Tyrannula ferruginea Swainson, Orn. Drawings, Part v 

 (1836?), pi. 53 (Brazil). 



