494 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



similar to those of Panama to warrant separation. In an early survey 

 Todd (Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, 1917, p. 4) proposed 

 the name suffusus with the type locality Turbaco, Bolivar. But in a 

 later review (idem, vol. 35, 1922, p. 35) Todd himself was uncertain 

 as to the validity of such a race. 



MYIOPHOBUS FASCIATUS FURFUROSUS (Thayer and Bangs): 

 Bran-colored Flycatcher, Moscareta Pechirrayada 



Myiohius nacvius furftirosiis Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 46, 

 September 1905, p. 152. (Isla Saboga, Archipielago de las Perlas, Panama.) 



Small, brown above, breast streaked, wings black with two white 

 bars. 



Description. — Length 110-120 mm. Adult male, above dull cin- 

 namon-brown ; crown somewhat darker, with an extensive, mainly 

 concealed yellow crown patch, tipped lightly distally with dark orange ; 

 rump paler, sandy brown ; wings black ; greater and middle coverts 

 tipped rather broadly with grayish or bufify white, forming two well- 

 marked bands ; inner primaries and secondaries edged and tipped 

 with dull white ; tail deep grayish brown ; outermost rectrix and 

 terminal margins of others dull bufify white ; side of head and neck 

 grayish brown, lores and feathers of eyelids partly grayish or bufify 

 white ; anterior under surface pale yellowish bufif, with the abdomen 

 and under tail coverts more yellow ; breast and sides streaked heavily 

 with grayish brown ; flanks and tibiae cinnamon-brown ; axillars and 

 under wing coverts pale bufif, with edge of the wing darker ; inner 

 webs of wing feathers pale dull bufif. 



Adult female, similar to the male, but with the hidden crown patch 

 definitely smaller ; streaking on breast and sides less extensive. 



Juvenile, upper surface and wing bars rufous-brown ; without a 

 crown patch. 



Immature, somewhat duller rufous-brown on back, wing markings 

 and edgings, and tips of tail ; more rufous-orange in the crown patch. 



The iris is brown, maxilla black, mandible flesh-colored, and tarsus 

 and toes black. 



Measurements. — Males ( 10 from Isla San Jose, Chiriqui, Vera- 

 guas, and Canal Zone), wing 53.0-57.9 (55.0), tail 45.1-52.0 (49.7), 

 culmen from base 12.2-13.6 (13.0), tarsus 15.5-16.5 (16.0) mm. 



Females ( 10 from Islas San Jose and Saboga, Chiriqui, Veraguas, 

 Code, Province of Panama, and Canal Zone), wing 51.1-55.4 (52.4), 

 tail 45.6-^9.2 (47.6). culmen from base 12.1-13.5 (12.5), tarsus 

 15.3-16.2 (15.7) mm. 



