530 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



September 4, 1891, p. 337. (Grecia, Alajuela, Costa Rica.) 

 Lophotriccus seledoni Cherrie, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol. 14, September 4, 1891, 

 p. Z2)7. (Dota, San Jose, Costa Rica.) 



Small ; with straight, rather heavy bill ; breast whitish to yellowish, 

 streaked with gray ; adult with prominent brown crest, spotted with 

 black. 



Description. — Length 90-100 mm. Adult, with a bushy crest in 

 which the feathers become longer and broader posteriorly. Male, 

 crest prominent, with the feathers especially large and broad at the 

 tips ; forehead and anterior area of crown grayish brown, in the latter 

 area the feathers darker centrally ; longer crown feathers black 

 basally, tipped broadly with cinnamon-rufous ; hindneck, back, scapu- 

 lars, and rump olive-green ; tail dusky, edged with olive-green ; wings 

 dusky ; wing coverts dusky basally ; lesser coverts edged with olive- 

 green, middle and greater coverts tipped with grayish white to yel- 

 lowish olive-green ; primaries edged with olive-green ; secondaries 

 bordered more widely with yellowish white ; side of head olive to 

 light rusty brown ; throat, foreneck, breast, and sides white to 

 yellowish white ; streaked rather broadly with gray to grayish olive ; 

 abdomen and under tail coverts white to yellowish white ; tibia dusky, 

 tipped at the tarsal joint with dull brown ; axillars and under wing 

 coverts white ; inner margins of wing feathers edged with dull white. 



Adult female, similar but crest less developed, with the feathers 

 narrower distally ; sides of head browner. 



Immature, crest feathers not lengthened, broadened or expanded 

 distally ; crown and hindneck plain rusty brown ; under surface less 

 distinctly streaked with gray. 



A male, taken near the base of Cerro Chucanti, eastern Province of 

 Panama, March 14, 1950, had the iris light orange-yellow; maxilla 

 fuscous ; base of gonys flesh color, rest of mandible dark neutral gray ; 

 tarsus and toes mouse brown. In one from Cerro Mali, Darien, 

 February 21, 1964, the iris was pale orange; cutting edge of maxilla 

 and mandible, and lower margin of mandibular rami, dull grayish 

 white ; rest of bill black ; anterior face of tarsus pale neutral gray ; 

 posterior surface and toes pale brownish white ; claws pale neutral 

 gray. Another from Cerro Campana, western Province of Panama, 

 March 5, 1951, had the iris yellowish white, becoming somewhat 

 orange around the pupil. 



In a female from Cerro Campana the iris was as described for the 

 male from that locality. In one collected at Palo Santo, near El 

 Volcan, March 1965, the iris was yellow ; lower margin of mandibular 



