BIRDS OF ^^ORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 069 



CORYPHOTRICCUS ALBOVITTATUS Lawrence). 

 WHITE-RINGED FLYCATCHER. 



Adults (sexes alilce). — Pileiim dark sooty brown (clove brown), 

 inclosiiio^ a large, mostly concealed, crown-patch of lemon or canary 

 yellow and bordered by a broad superciliary stripe of white (the two 

 of opposite sides confluent on nape and, more narrowly, forehead) ; 

 hindneck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts plain grayish 

 olive-green; tail dark grayish brown, the rectrices edged with light 

 grayish brown or olive; \nngs dusky, with narrow paler edgings, 

 these whitish or pale yellowish on secondaries, pale grayish brown or 

 olive on \nng-coverts, darker grajnsh brown (and much less distinct) 

 on primaries; loral, suborbital, postocular, and auricular regions dark 

 sooty brown, the suborbital region and anterior portion of auricular 

 region with fine whitish shaft-streaks; malar region, chin, and throat 

 white; rest of under parts, including axillars and under wing-coverts, 

 pure canary yellow; inner webs of remiges edged with pale (primrose) 

 yellow; bill black; legs and feet blackish (in dried skins). 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 150; wing, 79.5; tail, 65.5; exposed 

 culmen, 16; tarsus, 16.5; middle toe, 12. « 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 145; wing, 77; tail, 66; exposed cul- 

 men, 16.5; tarsus, 16.5; middle toe, 12.5." 



Eastern Panama. 



Pitangus albovittatus Lawrence, Ibis, 1st ser., iv, Jan., 1862, 11 (Panama R. R.; 

 coll. G. N. Lawrence); Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 471 (do.).— Sclater, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 179.— Salvix and Godmax, Biol. Contr.-Ani.. 

 Aves, ii, 1889, 46. 



[Pitangus] alboiittatus Gray, Hand-li-st, i, 1869, 357, no. 5426.— Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, iii, 1901, 128. 



Genus PITANGUS Swainson. 



PiUmgus Swainson, Zool. Journ.. iii, July. 1827, 165. (Type, Lanius s\dphuratus 



Linnaeus.) 

 Saurophagus Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Ani. , ii, 1831. 484. (Type, Lanius sulp/mratus 



Linneeus.) 

 Apolites SuNDEVALL, K. Vet.-Akad. Hand!.. 1835 (1836), 81. (Type, Lanius sul- 



phuratus Linnaeus.) 



Rather small to very large Tyrannidse (wing about 80-130 mm.) 

 \vith tarsus about as long as middle toe with claw^, bill about as long 

 as head, narrow, its width at posterior end of nostrils equal to less 

 than half the distance from nostril to tip of maxilla and less than one 

 and a half times its depth at same point, gonys nmch less than twice 

 as long as mandibular rami, tenth (outermost) primary shorter than 



"One specimen. 



