The birds of North and middle America Volume 10, no. 1946 ; a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds ... of Panama, the West Indies and other i

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... Hi, 1902, 35 (Boquetc, Panama, 4,000 to 5,800 ft.). JSaneeta olimccus Sclateii and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 47, part.--Sharps, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 114, part. Genus LEPTOPOGON Cabanis. Lrptopoyon Cabanis, Wiegmann's Archiv. fiir Naturg., 1S44, pi. i, 275. (Type, L. supcrriliaris Cabanis.) Small Tyrannidse (wing about 53-71 mm.) with rather long and very narrow bill (its width at anterior end of nostrils equal to not more than half the distance from nostril to tip of maxilla, and but little more than its depth at same point), conspicuous rictal bristles, and tail equal to or longer than distance from bend of wing to end of secondaries. Bill nearly as long as head, its upper and lower outlines approximately parallel, its lateral outlines straight and converging gradually (the vertical profile narrowly wedge-shaped), its width at anterior end of nostrils equal to not more than half the distance from nostril to tip of maxilla and but slightly exceeding its depth at same point; exposed culmen decidedly longer than middle toe without claw, indistinctly ridged, straight to near tip, where rather abruptly decurved, the tip of maxilla distinctly uncinate; gonys much longer than mandibular ranii, straight or very slightly convex; maxillary tomium straight, distinctly notched subterminally. Nostril mostly exposed, longitudinally linear or narrowly elliptical, distinctly operculate. Rictal bristles well developed, about half as long as bill, the feathers of chin and frontal antias with distinct though slender bristle-like points. Wing rather long and pointed, the longest primaries exceeding secondaries by slightly more than length of exposed culmen; seventh, eighth, or sixth, seventh and eighth, primaries longest, ninth equal to or longer than fifth, tenth (out...