FAMILY TYRANNIDAE 575 



Ornithological Society held in Berlin. March 7, 1884, by Cabanis 

 on behalf of Count Berlepsch (who was unable to be present). 

 The description was repeated by Berlepsch in an account of the 

 rest of the specimens with which it had been received, published in 

 the next number of the Journal fur Ornithologie for July-October 

 1884, p. 300. The collection of about 800 specimens, presented to the 

 city museum of Liibeck by Emilio Minlos, had been purchased over a 

 period of time locally from the Indians in Bucaramanga, Colombia. 

 The specimens differed from the "Bogota" trade skins in that the 

 bones were concealed in an artificial body of wadding or moss, not 

 found in the others. 



TYRANNISCUS VILISSIMUS PARVUS Lawrence: Paltry 

 Tyrannulet, Moscareta Menuda 



Tyranniscus parvus Lawrence, Ibis, vol. 4, January 1862, p. 12. (Lion Hill, 

 Isthmus of Panama.) 



Small ; above greenish olive ; breast and f oreneck grayish white ; 

 wings edged prominently with light greenish yellow. 



Description. — Adult (sexes alike), crown dull dusky green; hind- 

 neck, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail coverts greenish olive ; 

 wings dusky; middle and greater coverts, primaries (except outer- 

 most), and secondaries edged distinctly with bright greenish yellow; 

 bend of wing yellow; taib dusky, edged with dull olive-green; fore- 

 head and narrow indistinct superciliary, gray ; lores dusky ; side of 

 head light olive, with indistinct whitish shaft lines ; chin and upper 

 foreneck whitish ; lower f oreneck and breast pale gray, lined indefi- 

 nitely with dull white; center of abdomen white; flanks, lower ab- 

 domen, and under tail coverts pale olive-yellow, with a greenish wash ; 

 axillars and under wing coverts very pale yellow ; inner margins of 

 under wing feathers dull white. 



A male taken at Chepo, Province of Panama, April 24, 1949, had 

 the iris grayish white. Another, collected near El Volcan, Chiriqui, 

 February 28, 1954, had the iris light brownish white ; bill dusky 

 neutral gray, fuscous at the base of the gonys ; tarsus and toes dusky 

 neutral gray. A third, at Almirante, Bocas del Toro, February 5, 

 1958, had the inside of the mouth, including the upper surface of the 

 tongue, slightly more orange than honey yellow. A female, at Charco 

 del Toro, Rio Maje, Province of Panama, March 24, 1950, had the 

 iris Marguerite yellow ; maxilla dusky neutral gray ; mandible neutral 

 gray ; tarsus, toes, and claws dusky neutral gray. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Chiriqui, Bocas del Toro, Canal 



