BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 

 CAMPYLORHAMPHUS VENEZUELENSIS (Chapman). 



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VENEZUELAN SICKLE BILL. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileuiii deep sepia or bister brown, each 

 feather with a mesial guttate streak of dull buff or clay color, the 

 hindneck similar but the ground color slightly lighter brown; back 

 and scapulars lighter, more fulvous or russet, brown (between raw- 

 umber and russet or mars brown), the upper back usually with more 

 or less distinct narrow mesial streaks of pale dull biifTy; rump more 

 rufescent brown than back, the upper tail-coverts still more strongly 

 rufescent (nearly cinnamon-rufous) ; tail and remiges, including 

 shafts, plain chestnut, the wing-coverts similar but duller (intermedi- 

 ate between color of remiges and that of back) ; sides of head and neck 

 rather broadly streaked with deep sepia brown and |)alc dull buffy; 

 chin and throat pale dull buffy or dull buffy whitish, the feathers of 

 throat rather broadly edged with sejna brown, producing distinct 

 streaks; foreneck and chest light brown (between raw-umber and 

 isabella color), with rather Ijroad mesial linear streaks of })ale buffy 

 or dull bulfy whitish, the breast similar but with the streaks narrower 

 and less distinct; rest of under parts similar but sliglitly paler and 

 with streaks obsolete (absent on flanks and tliiglis) ; under wing- 

 coverts deep ochraceous-buff, paler and usually indistinctly flecked 

 with pale brownish along edge of wing; inner webs of remiges vina- 

 ceous-cinnamon, the outer primaries passing into grayish brown ter- 

 minally; bill light reddish brown (nearly cinnamon-rufous); iris 

 brown; legs and feet dusky horn color or olive (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Leiv^tli (sldns), 226-252 (239); wing, 92-96.5 (94); 

 tail, 72-81 (78); culmen (chord), 60-66 (62); tarsus, 21.5-22 (21.8); 

 middle toe, 16.5-18 (17.5) .« 



Adult fe male.— Len-^th (skins), 224-227 (225); wing, 88-96 (91.3); 

 tail, 73.5-82.5 (78.3); culmen (chord), 58-64 (60.7); tarsus, 21-22 

 (21.5); middle toe, 17-18 (17.5).'' 



o Three specimens, from PanamA. 



b Three specimens — one from Venezuela, two from Panama. 



In all probability, comparison of good series of specimens will show that the PanamA 

 bird is separable from that of Venezuela. 



