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Adult female. — Length (skins), 130-155 (145); wing, 50.5-56.5 

 (54.1); tail, 63.5-74.5 (70.7); culmen, 13-15 (14.1); tarsus, 19.5-22 

 (20.7); middle toe, 14.5-16 (15.3).« 



Southern Honduras (Rio Segovia), Nicaragua (Greytown; Chon- 

 tales; Los Sabalos; San Emihs, Lake Nicaragua) and Costa Rica 

 (Naranjo de Cartago; San Jose; Pacuare; Siquirres; Jimenez; Boca 

 Matina; Peje; Guayabo; Bonilla; Guapiles; Carrillo; El Hogar; 

 Buenos Aires; Lagarto; Pozo del Rio Grande; Boruca; Pozo Azul de 

 Pirris; El Pozo de Terraba; El General; Las Trojas) ; western Panama 

 (Chiriqui) ? 



SynaUaxis nigri/umosa Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, 1867, 181 

 (Greytown, Nicaragua; coll. U.S.Nat. Mus.); ix, 1868, 105 (" Payna," = Pacu- 

 are, Costa Rica). — Salvin, Ibis, 1870, 110(crit.). — Frantzius, Journ. furOrn., 

 1869, 304 (Costa Rica). 



S[ynallaxis] nigri/umosa Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 143, in text 

 (Greytown). 



[SynaUaxis] nigrofumosa Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 169, no. 2266. 



SynaUaxis pudica (not of Sclater, 1859) Salvin, Ibis, 1872, 213 (Nicaragua). — 

 ScLATER, Ibis, 1873, 373 (Chontales, Nicaragua); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1874, 10, part (Chiriqui?; Costa Rica); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 45, 

 part (Chontales, Nicaragua; Peje, Costa Rica; Chiriqui?). — Boucard, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 59 (Naranjo de Cartago, Costa Rica). — Nutting, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 404 (Los Sabalos, Nicaragua; habits; notes).— 

 Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 113 (Las Trojas, Pozo Aziil de 

 Pirris, Naranjo de Cartago, and Pacuare, Costa Rica).— Ridg way, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., X, 1888, 590 (Rio Segovia, Honduras). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 149, part, pi. 44, fig. 2. — Richmond, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 496 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua; habits; descr. 

 nest, etc.).— Ferry, Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. H., orn. ser., i, no. 6, 1910, 270 

 (Guayabo, Costa Rica). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 1893, 38 

 (Lagarto and Buenos Aires, CostaRica).— Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 299 (Boruca 



o Fourteen specimens. 



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