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Young. — Essentially like adults but upper parts decidedly browner 

 (olive-brown), wing-bands brownish buff, and yellow of under parts 

 paler (yellowish white) . 



Adult ma?e.— Length (skins), 143-160 (151); wing, 77.5-84.5 (81.9); 

 tail, 64-74.5 (70.6); exposed culmen, 11-12.5 (12); tarsus, 18-20.5 

 (18.8); middle toe, 11-12.5 (11.8).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 136-151 (143); wing, 73.5-80.5 

 (76.5); tail, 61-71 (65.9); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (11.3); tarsus, 

 17.5-19 (18); middle toe, 10-12.5 (11).'' 



Guatemala (Dueiias; San Pedro Martir; Volcan de Agua; Cal- 

 deras, on Volcan de Fuego; Medio Monte; Barranca Honda); Nica- 

 ragua (Ometepe), Costa Rica (San Jose; Irazu; Santa Maria; Dota 

 Mountains; Las Cruces de Candelaria ; Volcan de Turriall)a; Estrella 

 de Cartago; Barranca), and Panama (Boquete; Volcan de Chiriqui). 

 (Also said to occur in Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, but I have 

 not seen specimens from south of Panama.) 



Elainea frantzii Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, 1867, 172 (San Jose, 

 Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); ix, 1868, 112 (San Jose, Barranca, and Dota 

 Mts., Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 307 (Costa Rica). — 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 197 (Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama; 

 crit.). — ScLATER, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 145, part (San Pedro Martir, 

 Medio Monte, Volcan de Agua, and Barranca Honda, Guatemala; Dota and 

 Irazu, Costa Rica; Volcan de Chiriqui; Veragua). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1878, 63 (Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1882, 496 (Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica). — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vi, 1883, 393 (Ometepe, Nicaragua). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Cenlr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1888, 36, part.— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 

 204 (synonymy; crit.). 



[Elainea] frantzii Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neutr., 1873, 49. — Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, iii, 1901, 124. 



o Thirteen specimens. 

 b Eleven specimens. 



I am not able to satisfactorily distinguish specimens from the different countries 

 named above, except that from northern Peru, which is much browner a1)ove and 

 much more decidedly yellow below. 



