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of pale gray feathers ; malar region, chin, and throat white ; side of 

 neck and breast pale gray ; sides, flanks, tibiae, and under tail coverts 

 salmon-red ; axillars and pre-axillars bright pinkish red ; under wing 

 coverts and edge of wing pink ; inner margins of wing feathers 

 white to grayish white; central tail feathers black, tipped narrowly 

 with white ; longer feathers basally pink, paler distally, tipped widely 

 with white. 



Female, tip of outer primary narrowed for 10 to 15 mm; feathers 

 of crown white basally, but red spot found in male usually absent, 

 when present small and usually pale ; otherwise like male. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Texas, Virginia, and Bocas del 

 Toro). wing 120.1-127.0 (123.3), tail 214.0-248.0 (225.7). culmen 

 from base 19.1-22.2 (20.8), tarsus 18.6-20.0 (19.2) mm. 



Females ( 10 from Texas, Louisiana, Nevada, Veracruz, and 

 Code), wing 112.8-119.4 (116.1), tail 148.0-173.0 (160.7). culmen 

 from base 19.2-21.4 (20.3), tarsus 18.3-19.8 (19.1) mm. 



Migrant from the north. Found locally in western Panama; in 

 migration through Chiriqui and Bocas del Toro, to wintering grounds 

 in the Azuero Peninsula and Code. 



The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher was first recorded in the Republic 

 by W. W. Brown, Jr. (see Bangs, Auk, 1901, p. 363), who collected 

 five in November and December 1900 near Divala. Rudolf o Hinds 

 saw several near Almirante in October 1961 and collected a male on 

 October 31. There are two sight records for the eastern side of the 

 Azuero Peninsula, one near Ocii, Herrera, about January 20, 1950, 

 by T. E. White (during search for vertebrate fossils with C. L. Gazin 

 of the U.S. National Museum) and another December 29, 1966, in 

 Los Santos by Horace Loftin and G. V. N. Powell. In January 

 1963, I found a number on what was evidently their wintering 

 grounds in the areas of open savanna bordered by thorn scrub between 

 Aguadulce. Code, and the sea. On January 17, I collected two 

 females here. At sundown, 15 or more in straggling company flew 

 across an open salina to roost in mangroves bordering a tidal channel. 

 The two collected had eaten green drupes 10 mm or so long, on 

 which other flycatchers ( elaineas ) were feeding. Others were seen 

 in this area (known locally as (jallo ) on January 25. During archeo- 

 logical investigations in central Code, Richard Cooke saw one at the 

 Salinas near Aguadulce. and others in February and March 1970 

 (including four together ) near El Caiio. 



The species is a summer resident from southeastern Colorado and 

 Nebraska south through eastern New Mexico, western Arkansas and 



