BOAT-BILLED FLYCATCHER 



the eye and below this another broad light streak; 

 upper tail coverts and tail reddish cinnamon with 

 dusky markings ; wings edged and margined with 

 cinnamon and whitish; below dull white very 

 .slightly washed with yellow (almost white) and 

 .sharply and conspicuously streaked with dusky. 



This large flycatcher, conspicuous from its 

 sharply streaked plumage and reddish cinnamon 

 tail, is rather common along the roads and in the 

 shade trees about habitations. A pair appeared 

 to be nesting near the Ancon Hospital in April, 

 1924. Noted also at Barro Colorado Island. 



30. Megarhynchus pitangua mexicanus 



(Lafresnaye) 

 Boat-billed Flycatcher 



Sexes alike. Length, 224 mm. (8.85 in.) ; tail, 

 o mm. (3.55 in.). Much resembles Myiozetetes 



FIG. 73. Megarhynchus pitangua mexicanus 

 (Nat. Size) 



312 



