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tomia and tip; iris brown;" legs and feet dusky grayish or liorn color 

 in dried skins (bluish gray in lifeO; length (skins), 136-154 (145); 

 wing, 72-73.5 (72.7); tail, 52.5-55..5 (54.2); exposed culmen, 12-14 

 (13); tarsus, 18-19 (18.7); middle toe, 11-11.5 (11.3).^ 



Young female. — Similar to adults, but olive of upper parts tinged 

 with cinnamon-brownish, especially on upper tail-coverts and poste- 

 rior scapulars. (Two young females, one from vSan Jose, Costa Rica, 

 the other from Valparaiso, Santa Marta, Colombia, differ from one 

 another as follows : The Costa Rican example has the terminal portion 

 of the rectrices pale Iniffy yellow or almost yellowish white, the tips 

 of the two middle pairs, only, ochraceous-buff, the Colombian speci- 

 men having the terminal portion of all the rectrices clear tawny- 

 ochraceous; the same difference applies to the wing-markings, which 

 are pale yellow (tinged with ochraceous-buff on the larger coverts) in 

 the Costa Rican specimen and wholly clear tawny-ochraceous in that 

 from Colombia, in which the color of the pileum is a decidedly darker 

 brown (mummy or chestnut-brown instead of between raw-umber 

 and russet). 



Costa Rica (Barranca; San Jose); Colombia (Valparaiso, Santa 

 Marta). 



Pachyrhamphus ornatus Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, no. 855, Sepf. 4, 1891, 

 338 (Barranca, Costa Rica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 611 (San Jose, Costa Rica; crit.). 



[Pachyrhamphus] ornatus Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 165. 



PACHYRHAMPHUS VERSICOLOR (Hartlaub). 

 BARRED BECARD. 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck uniform glossy blue-black; 

 interscapulars black, the feathers gray beneath surface (this some- 

 times more or less exposed); scapulars with a terminal black bar, a 

 much broader subterminal white bar, the basal (concealed) portion 

 light gray with one or more bars of white, the anterior scapulars mostly 

 black; rump and upper tail-coverts gray or olive-gray, sometimes 

 with indistinct narrow bars of dusky (more rareh^ with a few whitish 

 ones also); tail gray, the rectrices indistinctly edged with paler gray, 

 olive-gray, or olive-greenish, narrowly margineil terminally with 

 white (except middle pair), their shafts blackish; Anngs black, the 

 middle coverts with a large terminal roundish spot of white margined 

 with black (the last row of lesser coverts sometimes with a similar but 

 smaller white spot), the greater coverts and tertials broadly edged 

 (except basally) with white, the secondaries narrowly edged with white; 

 sides of head (including loral, sid)()rbital, aiUMCular, and malar regions), 

 sides of neck, chin, and throat olive-yellow (usiuilly ])alor on chin and 



«J. Carmiol, manuscript on label. ^ Three specimens. 



