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brown (in dried skins); length (skins), 145-152 (150); wing, 65.5- 

 71.5 (69.3); tail, 51-57.5 (53.8); ciilmen, 18.5-20.5 (19.6); tarsus, 

 28-31.5 (30.5); middle toe, 16.5-18.5 (17.5). « 



Adult female. — Pileum and hindneck brown (nearly mummy 

 brown), passing into grayish (more or less extensively) on forehead 

 and into light bufty grayish on supra-auricular region; rest of upper 

 parts plain cinnamon-rufous, somewhat darker and duller on tail, 

 paler and more tawny or cinnamomeous on primaries; lesser wing- 

 coverts mixed black and cinnamon-brown; middle coverts crossed 

 by a broad subterminal bar of black, the tip lighter cinnamon- 

 rufous than general color; the greater coverts and tertials similarly 

 marked but black subterminal bar narrower; auricular region dark 

 brown or dusky, \vith narrow shaft-streaks of buffy or whitish; malar 

 region, throat, and chest plain ochraceous-buff, passing into white or 

 buffy white on chin; sides and flanks paler ochraceous-buft", some- 

 what tinged with grayish; breast and abdomen wMte; under tail- 

 coverts tawny-ochraceous; maxilla dark horn color, mandible paler; 

 legs and feet dull yellowish or light yellowish brown (in dried skins) ; 

 length (sldns), 133-154 (141); wing, 62-69.5 (64.8); tail, 49-58.5 

 (52.2); culmen, 18.5-20 (19.2); tarsus, 28.5-31 (30): middle toe, 

 16-18.5 (16.8).^ 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult female, but without distinct, 

 if any, black markings on wings. 



Panama (Lion Hill; Panama; Sabana de Panama; Veragua) to 

 northeastern Colombia (Santa Marta, Cacagualito, Don Diego, and 

 Bonda, Santa Marta; Cartagena). 



(J)Myrmeciza longipes (not Myrmothera longipes Vieillot) Sclater, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1858, 249, part ("New Granada"). 

 Myrmedza longipes Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 325 (Lion Hill, Pana- 



md). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 357 (Lion Hill). 

 Myrmedza swainsoni (not of Berlepsch) Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, ii, 1892, 229, part (Verdgua and Lion Hill, Panamd). 



