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tail 56.8-63.8 (60.1), oilmen from base 10.3-12.4 (11.4), tarsus 17.9- 

 20.3 (19.4, average of 9) mm. 



Females (10 from Chiriqui), wing 61.1-64.5 (62.0), tail 54.7-59.3 

 (57.8), culmen from base 9.6-11.8 (10.4, average of 9), tarsus 18.4- 

 19.9 (19.0) mm. 



Figure 24. — Collared Redstart, Candelita Collareja, Myioborus torqmtus. 



Resident. Common in highlands of Chiriqui, adjacent Bocas del 

 Toro, and in Veraguas, in forests and woodland edges. It is also found 

 in the mountains of Costa Rica. Monniche found it up to 2700 m on the 

 Volcan de Chiriqui, higher than M. miniatus occurs (Blake, Fieldiana: 

 Zool., vol. 36, no. 5, 1958, p. 561 ) . In Chiriqui it is usually found above 

 1800 m, sometimes down to 1050 (at the Fortuna Dam site) ; in Vera- 

 guas (Chitra, Santa Fe, Cerro Tute) it regularly comes down to 1050- 

 1200 m (Ridgely, 1976, p. 303). M. torquatus has been collected com- 

 monly in Chiriqui on the Volcan de Chiriqui, above Boquete, and about 

 Cerro Punta. In eastern Chiriqui it has been collected at Cerro Flores, 

 by Griscom, and on the Cordillera de Tole (Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, vol. 1 (pt. 13), 1881, p. 183). In Veraguas it was 

 collected by Arce at Calvovevora. 



The Collared Redstart behaves much like its congener, the Slate- 

 throated Redstart, flying after insects and moving acrobatically through 



