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abdomen, median portion of lower breast, and anal region dull white 

 (more or less buff}^ or cream yellq^wish in fresh specimens) ; under tail- 

 coverts mixed grayish and dull whitish, more or less strongly tinged 

 with pale brownish buff; bill yellowish (bright orange, orange-red, or 

 vermilion red in life) with more or less of dusk}'^ on culmen; inside of 

 mouth intense orange or red-orange; naked eyelids orange or orange- 

 red; iris white or pale smoke-gray; legs and feet yellowish (orange- 

 red, orange, or orange-yellow in life). 



Adult male.— Lengthiskins) , 159-176 (168); wing, 81.5-92.5 (88.5); 

 tail, 63-72.5 (68.8); exposed culmen, 14.5-16.5 (15.9); tarsus, 33.5- 

 36.5 (34.8); middle toe, 19.5-21 (20) .« 



Adult female.— J jength (skins), 156-165 (161); wing, 81-89 (84.4); 

 tail, 61.5-67.5 (64.1); exposed culmen, 15-16.5 (15.9); tarsus, 33-34.5 

 (33.7); middle toe, 18.5-20 (19.3).^ 



Costa Rican specimens compare in average measurements with 

 those from Chiriqui as follows: 



Highlands of Costa Rica (Cervantes; La Palma de San Jose; Coli- 

 blanco; Cuscua) and Panama (Calovevora; Cordillera de Tole; Cor- 

 dillera del Chucu; Volcan de Chiriqui; Boquete). 



Catharus .fuscater (not Myioturdus fuscater Lafresnaye) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ix, 1868, 90 (Cervantes, Costa Rica; cri..).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond.,1867, 132 (Cordillera de Tole, Veragua;crit.); 1870, 180 (Calovevora and 

 Cordillera del Chucu, Veragua). — Frantzius, Journ. fur. Orn., 1869, 289 

 (Costa Rica).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1879, 5, part 

 (Costa Rica; Veragua).— Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., v, 1881, 285, part 

 (Veragua).— RiDG WAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 333 (Cuscua, La 

 Palma, Costa Rica; crit.; descr.).— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 

 1902, 50 (Boquete and Volcan de Chiriqui, 4,000 to 7,500 ft.). 



[Catharus] fuscater Sclater and Salvin, Nona. Av. Neotr., 1873, 1, part. 



Catharus fuscater hellmayri Berlepsch, Orn. Monatsber., x, no. 5, May, 1902, 69 

 (^Chiriqui; coll. von Berlepsch). 



[Catharus] hellmayri Sharps, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 182. 



« Twelve specimens. 



& Nine specimens. 



