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bulky cup of sticks, weed stalks with rootlets inside, and a few green 

 leaves partly covering the eggs, which were five in number, 1.37 x 1.01 

 to 1.46 X 1.05 ins., blue covered with white chalk}^ deposit. The bird 

 slipped off and crawled away through the weeds. 



178. Tapera naevia excellens (Sclater). Northern Striped Cuckoo. 



Male, Gatun, November 5, 1911. Iris light reddish-brown, max- 

 illa brown, black on the culmen, mandible pale-horn, feet grayish-blue. 

 Stomach filled with grasshoppers. 



CAPITONID^. 



179. Capito maculicoronatus maculicoronatus Lawrence. Spotted-crowned Barbet. 



Male, Mt. Hope, February 22, 1913. Iris brown, Inll and feet 

 blue-gray. 



RAMPHASTID^. 



[180.] Ramphastos swainsonii Gould. Swainson's Toucan. 

 [181.] Ramphastos ambiguus Swainson. Wag'.er's Toucan. 

 182. Ramphastos piscivorus brevicarinatus (Gould). Short-tailed Toucan. 



Two males, Gatun, July 4 and 30, 1911. Iris bottle-green, bill 

 yellowish-green with a triangular orange streak on the side of the 

 maxilla, mandible bluish at base shading into the yellowish-green 

 subterminally, ends of both blood red, a narrow black band all around 

 the base, bare skin around the eye and throat green, feet bluish-green. 



Call is loud and piercing, repeated rapidly and almost constantly. 



[183.] Selenidera spectabUis Cassin. Cassin's Aracari. 

 184. Pteroglossus torquatus torquatus (Gmelin). Collared Aracari. 



Male, Gatun, February 22, 1911. Iris bright yellow, bare skin 

 around the eye and lores dark red, bill with a narrow white band 

 around the base, mandible dark-horn color with one light spot be- 

 neath, maxilla black at end with a black stripe the full length of the 

 culmen, sides lighter with reddish-brown shading near base, edge of 

 "teeth" black, feet olive-green. 



Shot on the edge of the jungle. - 



GALBULID^. 

 [185. J Jacamerops aurea (Miiller). Great Jacamar. 



BUCOONIDu53. 

 186. Notharchus tectus subtectus (Sclater). Black-breasted Puff Bird. 



Three females, Gatun, January 27, 28, 1912, and IVIarch 2, 1913. 

 Iris brown, bill black, feet blue-black. 



Stupid birds found in second growth, usually feeding on termites' 

 nests, fluttering to the nest and then back to their perches. 



