1887.1 PROCEEDINGS OF UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUAF. 593 



93. Rupornis ruficauda (Scl. & Salv.). 

 One specimen, Jul}' 19. 



94. Glaucidimn phalajiioides (Dauh.). 

 Two specimens, July 15 and 20. 



95. Coliuus nigrogularis segoviensis, subsp. uov. 



SuBSP. CIIAU. — Siuiilav to (7. nigrogKlaris (Gould), but decidedly 

 smaller and much darker colored. 



Habitat. — Houduras (Segovia River). 



Adult male {type, Xo. 1122-19, Segovia River, Honduras, July 22, 1SS7; 

 Charles n. Towuseud) : Pileum brownish black, passing into rusty ex- 

 teriorly, and bordered anteriorly and laterally by a broad fj -shaped 

 stripe of brownish vrhite; forehead, lores, and broad stripe passing 

 thence backward over eyes and auriculars to sides of hiudneck, deep 

 black; chin, throat, and malar region uniform deep black, bordered 

 above by a broad stripe of brownish white, beginning at rictus and 

 extending beneath eye across auriculars. Hind-neck and sides of neck 

 dark chestnut, the feathers with mesial guttate streaks or spotsof rusty 

 white, these larger and purer white on sides of neck; upper back dark 

 chestnut, the feathers irregularly barred or transversely mottled on 

 edges with black and brownish gray; rest of back, with scapulars, 

 wing-coverts, and tertials coarsely mottled and irregularly barred with 

 blackish on an olive and brownish gray ground, with lighter markings 

 along edges of many feathers, especially tertials and greater wing-cov- 

 erts ; lower back and rump olive-brown, mottled with darker and lighter, 

 spotted with black and deeper olive-brown, especially on lower back ; 

 upper tail-coverts and middle rectrices similar but more grayish brown, 

 marked with broad mesial streaks of black and irregularly barred with 

 lighter; rectrices dull slate-gray, tinged with olive, and indistinctly 

 barred or transversely mottled on outer webs with paler. Primaries 

 plain, dull, brownish slate. Chest, breast,and middle line of belly white, 

 the feathers broadly and abruptly bordered with black, this narrowest 

 on upper part of chest, broadest on belly; sides and flanks chestnut, 

 each feather whitish centrally and bordered with black, this more or 

 less broken or mottled on many of the feathers ; under tail coverts rusty, 

 tipped with dull light butfy, and marked with a large central sagittate 

 or triangular spot of black. Bill entirely deep black ; feet dark brown. 

 Length (skin) 7, wing 3.G5, tail 2.10, exposed culmen .50, tarsus 1.05, 

 middle toe 1. 



Adult female (No. 112251, Segovia River, Uondunis, Jnly 19, 1887; 

 Charles H. Townsend) : Broad superciliary stripe (includiug*sides of 

 forehead), chin, throat, and malar region plain, dull ochraceous or clay- 

 color; pileum brownish black, streaked with dull grayish buflfy; auric- 

 ulars plain silky brown; suborbital region dull ochraceous, streaked 

 with blackish ; hinder part and sides of neck pale dull grayish bafify, 

 thickly marked with triangular spots of black, these larger and more 

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