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BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA.
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cc. Coloration much darker, the back, etc., deep tawny-brown, under parts dull ochraceous (clear orhraceous on throat). (Costa Rica to Colombia.)

Philydor panerythrus (p. 203).

aa. Upper tail-coverts bright chestnut, like tail; wings not cinnamon-rufous.

b. Wings rusty brown. (Southeastern Brazil.)

Philydor atricapillus (extralimital).[1]

bb. Wings brownish slate color. (Panamá.)

Philydor fuscipennis (p. 204).

PHILYDOR PANERYTHRUS Sclater.

OCHRACEOUS PHILYDOR.

Adults (sexes alike). — Crown and occiput grayish cinnamon-brown or buffy grayish brown, passing into dull cinnamon on forehead and tawny-brown (nearly raw-umber) on hindneck, back, and scapulars, the rump and upper tail-coverts lighter, more buffy brown or wood brown; tail dull cinnamon-rufous, the wings brighter cinnamon- rufous, except primary coverts, which are dull russet, and tips of primaries, which are dusky; superciliary stripe, sides of head, chin, and throat clear ochraceous, relieved by a more or less distinct brown or dusky postocular streak (occupying upper part of auricular region); rest of under parts lighter and duller ochraceous, becoming gradually duller and somewhat paler (nearly pale Isabella color, but more yellowish) on flanks, under tail-coverts, and lower abdomen; under wing-coverts and broad edgings to inner webs of remiges clear ochraceous- buff; maxilla horn color, darker on terminal portion of culmen, paler on tomia; mandible dull whitish (in dried skins) dusky or horn color on rami; iris brown;[2] legs and feet deep horn color (in dried skins).

Adult male. — Length (skins), 190-191 (190.5); wing, 96-103 (99.5); tail, 88-90 (89); culmen, 19-19.5 (19.2); tarsus, 23.5-24 (23.7); middle toe, 14.[3]


  1. Anabates atricapillus Maximilian, Reis. Bras., ii, 1821, 147. — Philydor atricapillus Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 96. — S[phenura] superciliaris Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 41 (Bahia, Brazil; coll. Berlin Mus.). — Anabates superciliaris Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 28. — Philydor superciliaris Spix, Av. Bras., i, "1824," 73, pl. 73, fig. 1. — Xenops canivetii Lesson, Cent. Zool., livr. ii, Sept., 1830, 60, pl. 16 (Brazil). — Xenops melanocephalus Lesson, Traite d'Orn., livr. 4, Sept., 1830, 318 (new name for Philydor superciliaris Spix).
  2. W. W. Brown, jr., on label.
  3. Two specimens.