BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 763 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 156-163 (159); wing, 92.5-93.5 (93); 

 tail, 68.5; exposed culmen, 14; tarsus, 21.5; middle toe, 15.5." 



Adult female. —Length (skins), 159-175 (165); wing, 88.5-92 (90); 

 tail, 61-63 (61.9); exposed culmen, 14.5-17 (15.6); tarsus, 21-22 

 (21.4); middle toe, 15-15.5 (15.2).^ 



Middle Panama (Frijole Station; Panama City) and eastward 

 through northern Colombia (Bonda, Onaca, andCacagualito) to western 

 Venezuela (San Esteban). 



Heteropelma stenorhynchum Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868 

 (pub. Apr. 1, 18G9), 628, fi32 (San Esteban, Venezuela; eoll. P. L. Sclater 

 and coll. Salvin and Godman). — Sclater, Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 

 320.— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ani., Aves, ii, 1890, ]](> (Panama; 

 Venezuela). 



[Heteropelma] stenorhynchum. Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 187'3, 55. 



Scotothorus stenorhynchus Oberholser, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., June 2, 1899, 

 209. 



[Scotothorus] stenorhynchus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 159. 



[Laniisoma] stenorhynchum Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 373, no. 5666. 



Heteropelma verapacis (not JT. verie-pacis Sclater and Salvin) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., vii, 1862, 473 (Panama). 



Heteropelma verse-pads Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 424 (Panama). 



Heteropelma vergepacis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 155 (Bonda and 

 Cacagualito, Santa Marta, Colombia; descr. young). 



[Scotothorus] verse-paeis Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 159, part (Santa Marta, 

 Colom])ia). 



Genus LANIOCERA Lesson. 



Laniocera Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1840, 353. (Type, L. sanguinaria Ijesson, = Am pelis 



hypopyrrha Vieillot.) 

 Aulea " Schiff," Bonaparte, Consp. Voluc. Anisod., 1854, 4. (Type, Ampelis 



hypopyrrha Vieillot.) 

 Aulia (emendation) Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1S59. 101. 



Large Pipridse (wing about 100-115 mm.) closely resembling, super- 

 ficially, the Cotingine genera Latliria and Lijjaugus, but having the 

 exaspidean tarsal envelope and extensively coherent toes of typical 

 Pipridee. 



Bill about half as long as head, or less, rather broad but not 

 depressed basally, its depth at nostrils slightly greater than its width 

 at same point; culmen distinctly and rather sharply ridged, nearly 

 straight basally, gradually deciirved terminally, the tip of maxilla 

 distinctly but not conspicuously uncinate; gonys longer than man- 

 dibular rami, slightly convex, rather strongly ascending terminally; 

 maxillary tomium nearly straight, distinctly notched subterminally. 

 Nostril partly concealed by bristly antrorse latero-frontal plumules. 



o Two specimens, from Panama. 



^ Four specimens (two from Panama, two from Colombia). Six additional adults 

 examined (from Colombia) are (if unknown sex. 



