SMOOTH FLYCATCHER 



hindneck; rest of plumage above deep grayish 

 brown; cheeks, chin and throat white; remaining 

 under parts sulphur yellow heavily streaked 

 with dusky. Bill rather short but broad and 

 curved. 



A fairly common flycatcher of medium size, 

 recognizable by the brown coloration of the 

 upper parts and heavy streaking below, and 

 especially by the conspicuous white stripe over 

 the eye. It often frequents parks and shade 

 trees in the towns and cities. Found nesting in 

 an abandoned oropendula's nest (though in an 

 occupied colony), at Barro Colorado Island, 

 April, 1926. 



23. Sublegatus arenarum glaber 

 Sclater and Salvin 

 Smooth Flycatcher 



Sublegatus glaber PIDGWAY, Birds of N. and M. Amer. r 

 IV, p. 421, 1907; STONE, Proc. Phila. Acad. Nat. Sci.,. 

 1918, p. 265. 



Sexes alike. Length 135 mm. (5.30 in.); 

 tail 64 mm. (2.50 in.). Above grayish brown, 

 a dull white line from bill to and including upper 

 eyelid; two conspicuous whitish wing bars and 

 whitish edgings to quills; cheeks, throat and 

 breast light ashy gray, which changes fairly 

 abruptly to light lemon yellow on the remainder 

 of the under parts. Bill rather small and short,, 

 though fairly wide. 



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