506 BIRDS FROM CARIBBEAN SEA AND HONDURAS. 



each side; feathered stril) along median line of chin and throat mixed 

 dnsky brown and whitish, becoming i)aler i)hiia brownish posteriorly. 

 I>aci\, scapulars, and wing coverts greenish or bronzy dnsky, every- 

 where narrowly but very distinctly barred with pale tawn^*, these bars 

 deeper in color and less regular anteriorly, the reverse posteriorly ; remi- 

 ges andi)rimary-coverts slate-color, the primaries and approximate sec- 

 ondaries narrowly margined at ti{)s with white, the outer webs of upper 

 secondaries finely spriniiled with light buff^^ ; lower back, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, and tail olive-slaty, with a faint bronze-greenish gloss, all 

 except the last sparsely and indistinctly barred with whitish. Breast 

 <lusky, rather broadly though irregularly barred with bufiy cinnamon ; 

 axillars, sides, and flanks dnsky slate, distinctly though rather sparsely 

 -barred with pure white ; belly, anal region, and under tail coverts plain 

 brownish gray, tinged with light cinnamon; thighs dusky, narrowly 

 barred with light fulvous ; under wing-coverts dusky, sparsely, narrowly, 

 and irregularly' barred Avith white. Bill brownish black, the lower and 

 basal portions of under mandible, as well as naked orbits and lores, pale 

 colored (yellowish in life?); legs and feet dark brownish (olivaceous in 

 life?). Length (skin) 18.50, wing 11.40, tail 4.80, culmen 3.70, depth of 

 bill at base .85, tarsus ,3.G0, middle toe 2.50. 



YouiKj (Xo. G7001, Talamanca, Costa Eica ; Jose C. Zeledon) : Pilenm 

 and hind-neck tawny-chestnut, varied with broad, somewhat /\-shaped 

 bars of black ; sides of neck more ochraceous, marked with more 

 regularly' transverse bars of black; median line of fore-neck striped with 

 white and plain grayish brown or drab. Prevailing color of upper parts 

 bronze-dusky, irregularly barred with tawny, thelesser and middle wing- 

 coverts marked with large spots of the same; secondaries (except 

 tertials) broadly bauded with paler tawny on outer webs, their inner webs 

 with corresponding, but narrower, bars of white. Tail slate-black, 

 narrowly tipped with white and crossed by about five sharply defined 

 narrow bauds of pure white. Breast broadly banded with brownish 

 dusky and ochraceous (the bands of the latter color in places changing 

 into whitish) ; bellj' somewhat similarly but much less distinctly marked, 

 the anal region and under tail-c€verts very indistinctly varied with 

 transverse cloudings of dull grayish on a bufiy and whitish ground. 

 Under wing-coverts, axillars, sides, flanks, and thighs slate-dusky, 

 broadly barred or banded with wbite, the thighs strongly tinged with 

 ochraceous on lower portion and the darker bars much narrower on inner 

 side. Length (skin) 21.50, tail 5, culmen 3.92, depth of bill at base .95, 

 tarsus 3.G0, middle toe 2.45. 



This very distinct and aiiparently undescribed species belongs to that 

 section of the genus which is characterized by the presence of a feathered 

 strip along the median line of the chin and throat, combined with wholl\ 

 naked lower jaw, and including besides the present bird only two other 

 known species, T. hrasiliensis (Linn.) and T. sahnoniScL. & Salt. In 



