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breast to dull cream buff, and in turn to ivory yellow on the abdomen ; 
under tail coverts hair brown, margined with olive-buff; sides hair 
brown, becoming light grayish olive on the flanks ; edge of wing and 
tips of outermost under wing coverts dull cinnamon ; innermost under 
wing coverts edged with dull cream-buff. Maxilla black; mandible 
olive-buff, the sides of the rami colonial buff; tarsus, toes, and claws 
black (from dried skin). 
Measurements——Males (11 specimens), wing 65.2-71.5 (68.7), 
tail 54.0-61.1 (57.0), culmen from base 14.8-15.9 (15.4), tarsus II.5- 
12.9 (11.9) mm. Females (6 specimens), wing 63.2-68.4 (66.4), tail 
52.8-57.9 (55.4), culmen from base 14.8-16.1 (15.4, average of 5), 
tarsus II.5-12.7 (11.9) mm. 
Type, male, wing 71.5, tail 58.6, culmen from base 15.4, tarsus 
II.9 mm. 
Range.—Isla Coiba, off the Pacific coast of Veraguas, Panama. 
Remarks.—While there is some individual variation, the paler 
specimens in the series are separable at a glance by definitely deeper 
olive color from the darker ones in the numerous skins available from 
the mainland range of C. c. brachytarsus. In average size C. c. aitha- 
lodes is slightly smaller, but there is overlap in the larger measure- 
ments with those of brachytarsus. 
The subspecific name is taken from the Greek a:fadwdys, sooty, 
black. 
TODIROSTRUM CINEREUM FINITIMUM Bangs: Common Tody-flycatcher, 
Piqui-ancho Comin 
Todirostrum cinereum finitimum Bancs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 17, 
May 18, 1904, p. 114. (San Juan Bautista, Tabasco, México.) 
This tiny tody-flycatcher, marked by its yellow breast and broad, 
elongated bill, ranged in shrubs, the lower woods, and the trees back 
of the shoreline. Usually they are found in pairs, male and female 
hopping about near one another, moving through the branches with 
the narrow-feathered tail cocked over the back like little wrens. They 
are active in pursuit of insects and adept at snapping up the prey 
that they encounter among the twigs and leaves. Occasionally I found 
them among mangroves. One that I shot in such a location was 
seized and carried off by a large black lizard the instant it touched 
the ground. 
The six prepared for specimens in series are very faintly deeper 
yellow on the lower surface than skins from the mainland, but 
individually they may not be separated. 
