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BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



Adult female, tips of five outermost primaries only slightly incised, 

 the sixth only slightly narrowed at end ; color pattern as in male. 



Juvenile (hoth sexes), outer primary in some individuals (but 

 not in all) very slightly narrowed at tip : in first plumage, wing coverts, 

 including primary coverts, lower rump, upper tail coverts, and tail 

 edged with cinnamon-bufif. 



Figure 36. — Tropical kingbird, pitirre tropical. Tyrannus mclancholictis 



chloronotus. 



This is the species of the flycatcher family most often seen, espe- 

 cially throughout the lowlands outside forested areas. In open 

 country they are constantly in sight on wires and fences along the 

 roadways, at the borders of fields and pastures, and regularly around 

 houses. In wilder sections they are found wherever there are openings 

 or open forest borders. They appear in lookout trees back of the 

 beaches, and are found on all but the very smallest of the many off- 

 shore islands. 



