FAMILY TYRANNIDAE 479 



Migrant from the north. Recorded from September 8 to May 26 ; 

 fairly common through the winter months ; found at 725 meters in 

 the mountains of Bocas del Toro. 



Specimens were collected as follows : San Felix, Chiriqui, Febru- 

 ary 21, 1956, female; Gatun, Canal Zone, May 8 and 15, 1911, two 

 females; Portobelo, Colon, May 26, 1911, female; and El Real, 

 Darien, January 25, 1964, female. A record of especial interest is a 

 female collected September 8, 1961, at an elevation of 725 meters in 

 the upper valley of the Rio Changuena in western Bocas del Toro. 



The present race and E. t. adastus apparently are equally common 

 and widely distributed during winter throughout the Isthmus, and 

 also in Colombia. Specimens from the latter country were collected 

 by Carriker in the Department of Bolivar, at La Raya, January 19 

 and 30, 1948, and Norosi, February 28, 1947; Pueblo Nuevo, eastern 

 Cordoba, January 22, 1949 ; and near El Dif icil, Magdalena, De- 

 cember 27, 1946. I secured males at Nazaret, Guajira, on April 26 

 and May 1, 1941. 



MITREPHANES PHAEOCERCUS (Sclater) : Tufted Flycatcher, 

 Moscareta Monuda 



Mitrephorns phaeoccrcus P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 27, May 

 1859, p. 44. (Cordoba, Veracruz, Mexico.) 



Small, with a pointed crest ; greenish back, cinnamon-brown breast, 

 light buff or yellow abdomen ; a partly concealed white tuft on either 

 side of rump. 



Description. — Length 115-122 mm. Adult (sexes alike), upper 

 surface greenish olive ; crown slightly darker than the back, with 

 indistinct darker shaft lines ; a distinct, but partly concealed white 

 tuft on either side of rump ; wings dusky ; middle and greater coverts 

 tipped with whitish to buff ; secondaries edged distally with dull white 

 to light olive ; tail dusky grayish brown, tipped faintly with cinnamon- 

 buff ; sides of head dull cinnamon-buff to buffy olive ; f oreneck and 

 breast cinnamon-brown ; lower breast and abdomen cinnamon-buff 

 to yellow ; axillars and under wing coverts buff to cinnamon-buff. 



Juvenile, upper surface dull, dark reddish brown, tipped with 

 cinnamon-buff, these lighter markings forming an indistinct band 

 across the hindneck ; tips of middle and greater coverts cinnamon- 

 brown ; lower surface darker than in adult. 



The species ranges widely through mountain areas from northern 

 Mexico south through Central America, western Colombia, and 

 Ecuador. A close relative, Mitrephanes olivaceus, is found in Peru 



