FAMILY PARULIDAE 



tail 49.9-59.1 (56.0), culmen from base 10.6-11.8 (11.4), tarsus 16.3- 

 18.2 (17.4) mm. 



Resident. Very common in forest in eastern Darien between 1050 

 and 2100 m. It has been collected at Cerro Mali, Cerro Cana, Cerro 

 Tacarcuna, Cerro Pirre, and Alturas de Nique. A male that I collected 

 on Cerro Mali on February 26, 1964, was in breeding condition and 

 had somewhat worn plumage. E. A. Goldman's notes from Cerro Pirre 

 in 1912 mention a female collected April 18 "with egg ready to lay." 

 On April 27 he says "this species is nesting." 



An individual seen in cloud forest on Cerro Jefe, eastern Province of 

 Panama in July 1973 by D. Hill (Ridgely, 1976, p. 303) may have 

 been of this race, which ranges south through the Andes of Colombia 

 and western Venezuela at least as far as northwestern Ecuador. 



A. H. Miller (Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., vol no. 1, 66, 1963, p. 45) 

 has described habitat, behavior, nesting, and weights (8 males, 9-10 g; 

 female, 9.3 g) of M. m. hallux in the western Andes of Colombia at 

 San Antonio. 



MYIOBORUS TORQUATUS (Baird): Collared Redstart, 

 Candelita Collareja 



Figure 24 



Setophaga torquata Baird, 1865, Rev. Amer. Birds, 1, p. 261. (San Jose, Costa 

 Rica.) 



Small; upper surface dark gray with reddish brown crown; sides of 

 face and undersurface yellow, with black band across upper breast. 



Description. — Length 121-133 mm. Adult (sexes alike), forecrown, 

 sides of crown, and nape black; center of crown rufous; upper surface 

 slate color; wings and tail blackish, with white extensive on outer two 

 pairs of rectrices; forehead, lores, superciliary, side of head, and under- 

 surface yellow, with black band across chest; underwing coverts a mix- 

 ture of light yellow and gray. 



Immature, upper surface gray; forehead, lores, lower cheeks, and 

 throat pale yellow flecked with gray; broad gray band across breast; 

 lower breast and belly yellow; brightest on flanks, fading to whitish on 

 center of abdomen. 



A male taken March 5, 1965, at Volcan de Chiriqui, Chiriqui, had the 

 iris mouse brown; bill black; tarsus and toes fuscous-brown; claws 

 black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Chiriqui), wing 63.9-70.1 (66.7), 



