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neck gray ; forehead and a narrow superciliary, extending a short 

 distance back of the eye, white ; center of crown with a partly con- 

 cealed patch of orange-red, these feathers basally yellow ; back, 

 scapulars, and rump olive-green ; upper tail coverts dark olive edged 

 with olive-green ; wing and tail dusky ; rectrices edged with pale 

 olive ; remiges. greater and middle wing coverts margined with 

 grayish olive ; lores, space below eye, and auricular region dusky ; 

 chin and throat white, in some tinged faintly with yellow ; malar area 

 also white, faintly lined with pale gray ; rest of under surface, with 

 axillars and under wing coverts bright yellow ; sides of upper breast 

 streaked indistinctly with gray ; inner margin of wings very pale buff. 



Adult female, like the male but in most without an orange crown 

 patch ; where present this crown patch hidden and much reduced 

 in size. 



Juvenile, in general like the adult but with no crown patch, and 

 with white area of forehead reduced ; crown and hindneck grayish 

 olive-green ; wings, tail, and upper tail coverts edged with rufous 

 or cinnamon ; inner margins of wing feathers cinnamon-buff. 



The species is distributed widely from eastern Honduras south- 

 ward through Central America, and in South America from Colombia 

 and southern Venezuela south to Bolivia and western Brazil. 



Two slightly different subspecies are found in Panama, the nom- 

 inate race being the more common. 



MYIOZETETES GRANADENSIS GRANADENSIS Lawrence 



Myiozctctcs grauadcnsis Lawrence, Ibis, vol. 4, January 1862, p. 11. (Isthmus 

 of Panama: Lion Hill, Panama Railroad, Canal Zone.) 



Characters. — Slightly paler on the dorsal surface ; white of fore- 

 head slightly more extensive ; under surface faintly lighter, brighter 

 yellow. Juvenile with the lighter edging on wings and tail slightly 

 paler, more cinnamon-buff. 



A male, from the Candelaria Hydrographic Station on the Rio 

 Pequeni, back of Madden Lake, collected March 7, 1961, had the iris 

 pale mouse brown ; bill black ; tarsus and toes fuscous ; claws black. 

 Another male, from Gago, Code, January 23, 1963, had the iris 

 buffy brown, bill black ; tarsus and toes black. A female at Puerto 

 Armuelles. Chiriqui, January 30, 1966, had the iris light yellowish 

 brown ; tarsus and toes fuscous-brown, claws black. Eye color ap- 

 parently is lighter, more yellow in the older birds ; duller, browner 

 in those less than a year old. The light-colored eyes of adults are 

 often visil)le in life when the light is favorable. 



