FAMILY TYRANNIDAE 417 



and fruiting guarunios near our camp, and also were found in small 

 number along the broader reaches of the river. 



Beyond Panama this form ranges through western Colombia to 

 northwestern Ecuador, and from the Caribbean coast through An- 

 tioquia and Bolivar to the middle Magdalena Valley. 



PITANGUS SULPHURATUS GUATIMALENSIS (Lafresnaye) : 

 Great Kiskadee, Cristofue 



Smirophagus Giiatimalcnsis Lafresnaye, Rev. Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 4, October 

 1852, p. 462. (Guatemala.) 



Large ; yellow breast ; throat, forehead, and line over eye white ; 

 crown black ; wings rufous. 



Description. — Length 215-225 mm. Adult (sexes alike), crown 

 and side of head black with a large concealed central patch of bright 

 yellow, tending toward orange ; forehead and a broad line over eye, 

 extending back across the nape, white ; plumes projecting forward 

 over nostril, gray ; hindneck, back, scapulars, and rump, olive-brown : 

 upper tail coverts edged with cinnamon-rufous ; tail grayish brown, 

 edged in varying amount with cinnamon-rufous; wings blackish 

 brown, the coverts edged narrowly, the primaries and secondaries 

 widely, with cinnamon-rufous ; chin, throat, and malar region white ; 

 rest of under surface, including axillars and under wing coverts, 

 lemon yellow ; inner webs of wing feathers cinnamon. 



Juvenile, without yellow patch in crown ; rufous edgings on wings 

 more extensive, and usually paler ; otherwise like adult. 



According to notes by F. H. Kennard, the iris is mummy brown, 

 bill and tarsus black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Bocas del Toro and Canal Zone), 

 wing 115.3-120.6 (117.6), tail 86.4-91.5 (89.0), culmen from base 

 29.0-33.4 (30.8), tarsus 24.2-27.5 (26.0) mm. 



Females (10 from Bocas del Toro), wing 108.2-116.6 (112.7), 

 tail 76.6-90.1 (82.4), culmen from base 29.2-33.5 (30.9), tarsus 

 23.7-26.8 (25.6) mm. 



Resident. Common in western Bocas del Toro ; recently appeared 

 and has become established in the Canal Zone (Ancon, Balboa), 

 adjacent eastern Province of Colon, and Province of Panama, in 

 the eastern suburbs of Panama City, and at Playa Coronado in the 

 west (two adults and a grown juvenile, May 31, 1971, Eisenmann). 



The first specimens known for Panama, four males and a female, 

 were collected February 11 to 22, 1926, at Almirante, Bocas del Toro 

 by F. H. Kennard (Kennard and Peters, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 



