420 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



PITANGUS LICTOR PANAMENSIS Bangs and Penard: Lesser 

 Kiskadee, Pecho Amarillo Orillero 



Pitangus lictor panamcnsis Bangs and Penard, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 62, 

 April 1918, p. 78. (Lion Hill, Canal Zone, Panama.) 



Rather small ; slender ; white throat ; yellow breast ; black crown ; 

 bill long, slender ; call notes low, wheezy. 



Description. — Length 155-170 mm. Adult (sexes alike), crown 

 black, with a large, nearly concealed, central patch of orange-yellow ; 

 forehead and lores dull gray ; superciliary white, widened posteriorly 

 and joined across the nape to its counterpart from the other side; 

 lower hindneck, back, scapulars, and lesser wing coverts olive ; upper 

 tail coverts dark olive, edged with cinnamon ; tail dark grayish brown, 

 the central rectrices edged externally with cinnamon, the two outer 

 pairs with light grayish brown ; inner margins of all pale cinnamon ; 

 wings deep grayish brown, with the primaries and secondaries, and 

 in some the middle and greater coverts, edged with cinnamon or 

 rusty ; side of head dull black ; malar area, chin, and throat white, 

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

 bright lemon yellow ; inner webs of wing feathers edged with cin- 

 namon-buff. 



Juvenile, like adult, but black of head duller; crown patch absent, 

 or faintly indicated by hidden narrow, central shaft lines of dull 

 orange; rufous brown edgings of upper tail coverts, tail and wings 

 paler and more extensive ; yellow of under surface paler. 



A male taken at Juan Mina, Canal Zone, January 18, 1961, had 

 the iris dark brown; bill black; feet fuscous-black. Another, at 

 El Real. Darien. January 8. 1964, was similar except that the claws 

 were black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Canal Zone, eastern Province of 

 Panama, and San Bias), wing 86.0-88.5 (87.1), tail 67.5-70.6 (69.2), 

 culmen from base 23.3-25.5 (24.1), tarsus 18.2-19.0 (18.6) mm. 



Females (10 from Canal Zone and eastern Province of Panama), 

 wing 80.5-82.9 (81.9), tail 63.7-67.0 (65.1). culmen from base 

 21.7-23.5 (22.7). tarsus 17.4-18.7 (17.9) mm. 



Resident. Locally, fairly common in the tropical lowlands from 

 the Canal Zone east through eastern Province of Panama and Darien, 

 and through eastern Colon and the Comarca de San Bias. They are 

 casual in occurrence from the Pacific side of the Canal Zone east 

 to the Rio Pacora. locally common on the Caribbean slope through- 

 out the lower Chagres \'alley, including the shores of Gatun Lake. 



Their main habitat is in marshy areas along the open shores of 



