BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 675 



PITANGUS LICTOR (Lichtenstein). 

 LICTOR FLYCATCHER. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum black, or sooty black, the crown with 

 a large concealed patch of bright yellow (usually lemon, but varying 

 from canary to cadmium) ; hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and 

 lesser wing-coverts plain olive ; upper tail-coverts deep grayish brown 

 or dark olive, margined, more or less distinctly, with rusty; tail deep 

 to dark grayish brown, the middle rectrices edged with cinnamon or 

 rusty, the exterior ones with pale grayish brown, the inner webs of all 

 narrowly edged (more broadly basally) with pale cinnamon; wings 

 deep grayish brown with paler edgings, the remiges (sometimes also 

 the greater coverts) edged with cinnamon or rusty; a conspicuous 

 superciliary stripe of white, the two of opposite sides confluent, or 

 nearly so, on nape; loral, postocular, auricular, and suborbital regions 

 imiform black, or sooty black, the first usually more or less inter- 

 mixed with grayish; malar region, chin, and throat white; rest of 

 under parts, including axillars and under wing-coverts, bright lemon 

 or canary yellow ; inner webs of remiges broadly edged with pale cin- 

 namon-rufous ; bill black; legs and feet black or blackish brown (in 

 dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults but black of head duller, the crown with- 

 out yellow or with but little of that color, back, etc., browner (less 

 greenish) olive, and yellow of under parts paler. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 157-172 (165); wing, 87.5-89 (88.3); 

 tail, 70-74.5 (71.5); exposed culmen, 20.5-21.5 (21); tarsus, 18.5-19 

 (18.7); middle toe, 11.5-12.5 (12).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 154-173 (164); wing, 80.5-85.5 

 (83.6); tail, 63.5-74 (68.1); exposed culmen, 20.5-23 (21.5) ; tarsus, 

 17..5-19 (18.2); middle toe, 11-12 (11.7).^ 



Panama (Lion Hill; Panama) and southward through Colombia (Rio 

 Truando; Rio Atrato; Cacagualito; Bogota), Venezuela (Altagracia; 

 Ciudad Bolivar; La Pricion; Suapure; Rio Mato; Sacupana; Delta of 

 Orinoco), Trinidad, British Guiana (Bartica Grove), and Cayenne to 

 Brazil (Para; Mexiana Island; Santarem; Bahia; Rio Capim; Matto- 

 grosso), eastern Ecuador (Valle de Santiago) and eastern Peru 

 (Yquitos). 



L[anius] lictor Liciitenstein, Verz. Doubl., hS23, 49(Parii, IJrazil; coll. Berlin 



Mus). 

 S[aurophagus] lictor Gray, Gen. Binb, i. 1847, 24(i, pi. (j2. — Cabanis and Heine, 



Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 62 (Brazil). 



a Three specimens. 



b Five specimens. 



Two specimens (unsexed) from Brazil (iSantarciii aii<l Hahia) are larger, measuring as 

 follows; Wing, 93.5-96(94.7); tail, 75-77 (76); exposed culmen, 22-23.5 (22.7); tarsus, 

 19.5; middle toe, 12.5-13 (12.7). Apparently they do not differ in coloration from 

 more northern examples. 



