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iris dark brown; legs and feet brownish (in dried skins) the toes 

 darker terminally. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 97-107 (102); wing, 108.5-116.5 

 (111.1); tail, 37-41.5 (39.2); exposed culmen, 4.5-6 (5.2); tarsus, 

 9.5-10.5 (10.1); middle toe, 7-7.5 (7.3).« 



Adult female.— Length, (sldns), 97-106 (101); wing, 108.5-116 

 (110.9); tail, 39-42 (40.3); exposed culmen, 4.5-5.5 (4.9); tarsus, 

 10-10.5 (10.2); middle toe, 7-7.5 (7.4).'' 



Southwestern Costa Rica (Pozo Azul de Pirris; El General) and 

 southward through Panama (Bugaba, Chiriqui; Volcan de Cliiriqui) 

 to northern Colombia (Cacagualita, Santa Marta; Naranjo, west of 

 Bucaramanga) . (Also said to occur at Para and Santarem on the 

 lower Amazon ; '^ but until the birds of this group can be carefully 

 revised with the aid of ample material I have doubts as to the correct 

 identification of specimens from the localities mentioned.) 



Chxtura fumosa Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., Aug. 1, 1870, 204 (Bugaba, 

 Chiriqui, Panamd; coll. Salvin and Godman). — Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 375 

 (Naranjo, 2,500 ft., Colombia). — Hartert, Cat. Birds Grit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 

 483 (Bugaba, Panama;? Santarem and Para, lower Amazon). — Salvin and 

 Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 377, part (Bugaba; Volcan de 

 Chiriqui; Colombia;? Santarem;? Pard). 



[Chxtura] fumosa Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 95. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 92. 



Ch[setura] fumosa Hartert, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 1897, 75. 



Chsetitra sjnnicauda fumosa Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iv, March 19, 

 1908, 25, 26 (Pozo Aziil de Pirris, w. Costa Rica; crit.). — Hellmayr, Verb. 

 Orn. Gesellsch. Bayern, viii, 1908, 160 (synonymy; descr.). — Carriker, 

 Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 508 (Pacific lowlands of Costa Rica). 



(?)Chxtura spinicauda (not Cypschis spinicaudus Temminck) La yard. Ibis, 1873, 

 389 (Para). 



o Nine specimens, from Costa Rica. b Ten specimens, from Costa Rica. 



c According to Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 483. 



