BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 735 



MYIOBORUS TORQUATUS (Baird). 

 COLLARED REDSTART. 



Adults {sexes n/ile). — Forehead (except extreme anterior portion) 

 and sides of crown and occiput black; crown (except laterally) and 

 occiput rufous-chestnut, the feathers elongated; nape (mostly con- 

 cealed by the rufous-chestnut occipital feathers) blackish; rest of 

 upper parts plain slate color, sometimes faintly tinged with olive, the 

 back rarely indistinctly clouded with dusky; wings blackish slate 

 with indistinct slaty edgings; tail black, the two outermost rectrices 

 extensively white terminally, the third sometimes with a small amount 

 of white at tip; whole side of head, including superciliary, loral,^ 

 suborbital, auricular, and malar regions, together with under parts 

 (except under tail-coverts) lemon yellow, interrupted by a band of 

 slate color or blackish slate across chest; under tail-coverts pale yellow 

 or yellowish white; under wing-coverts and axillars mostly yellowish- 

 white; bill black or duskj^ brown ; iris brown ; legs and feet blackish. 



Adult male.— Jjength (skins), 124-127 (125.4); wing, 65-68 (66.5); 

 tail, 60-62.5 (61.2); exposed culmen, 19-21 (19.8).' 



Adult female. -Length (skins), 124-125 (124.7); wing, 63-66 (64.5); 

 tail, 57-60 (58.7); exposed culmen, 9-10 (9.4); tarsus, 19-20.5 (19.6).' 



Highlands of Costa Rica (San Jose, La Palma, Candelaria Moun- 

 tains, Volcan de Irazu, etc.) and Chiriqui (Volcan de Chiriqui, Cordil- 

 lera del Tole, Boquete, etc.). 



Setophaga torquata Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1865, 261 (San Jos6, Costa 

 Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 136 

 (Cordillera de Tole, Veragua) ; Ibis, 1878, 319 (\' clean de Chiriqui; monogr.) . — 

 Lawrence, Am. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 96 (San Jos6 and La Palma, Costa 

 Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 294 (Candelaria Mts., Costa 

 Rica). — BoDCARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 53 (Volcan de Irazii, 

 Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 183, pi. 10, 

 fig. 2.— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 495 (Volcan de Irazu).— 

 Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. , x, 1885, 424 (Irazu district and La Palma, Costa 

 Rica, etc.). — Zblbdon, Anal. -Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 107 (Volcan de 

 Irazii).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 61 (Volcan de Chi- 

 riqui, 4,000 to 7,500 ft., and Boquete, Chiriqui). 



[Sefophaga\ torquata Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 243, no. 3526. — Sclatbr and Sal- 

 vin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 11. 



Genus EUTHLYPIS Cabanis. 

 Euthlypis Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 18. (Type, E. lachrymosa Cabanis.) 



Similar to Myiohorus, but bill much longer (nearly as long as head) 

 and much less depressed, relatively narrower and deeper; rictal bris- 

 tles shorter, not reaching more than halfway to tip of bill. 



'The yellow of the lores crosses the extreme anterior portion of the forehead. 

 ' Five specimens. ' Four specimens. 



