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202 distinctly scutellate; middle toe, with claw, equal to tarsus (P. fuscipennis) or more or less shorter (other species); outer toe, without claw, reaching to or beyond middle of subterminal phalanx of middle toe, the inner toe slightly shorter; hallux about as long as outer toe but much stouter; basal phalanx of middle toe wholly united to lateral toes; claws moderate in size and curvature, that of the hallux decidedly shorter than the digit.

Coloration. — Plain brown, brown and gray, or rufescent above, the tail and upper tail-coverts Usually cinnamon-rufous or rufous-tawny; a more or less distinct superciliary stripe of rufous-tawny, ochraceous, buff, or whitish; under parts plain tawny, ochraceous, or buffy. Sexes alike.

Range. — Costa Rica to Peru, Bolivia, southeastern Brazil, and Cayenne. (About fifteen species.)

a. Upper tail-coverts buffy brown, like back but lighter; wings cinnamon-rufous, contrasting strongly with color of back.
 * b. Pileum distinctly gray, the forehead broadly and abruptly buffy. (Southeastern Brazil)

Philydor rufus (extralimital).
 * bb. Pileum not distinctly, if at all, gray, the forehead neither broadly nor abruptly buffy.
 * c. Coloration much paler, the back, etc., light buffy brown, under parts buff; pileum brownish gray or grayish brown. (Venezuela.)

Philydor columbianus (extralimital).