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ciilmeii, 12.7-15.2 (13.7); greatest width of mandibular rami, -l.S-o.S 

 (5.1); tarsus, 19.8-22.4 (20.6); middle toe, 13.5-15.2 (U).' 



Adult female. — Head and neck uniform dark seal ])rown, darker 

 (almost brownish black) on pileum and hindneck, the forehead and 

 lores slig-htl}^ tinged with dusk}' reddish; interscapulars and scapulars 

 dusk}' centrally, broadly margined with dark brownish red or reddish 

 brown; lower l)ack, rump, and upper tail-coverts brownish red (dull 

 vermilion, coral red, or dull popp}^ red); wings and tail blackish brown, 

 the wing-coverts with distinct l)rown or reddish l)rown edgings, the 

 remiges and rectrices with narrower and less distinct edgings of the 

 same, sometimes obsolete or altogether wanting; under parts of body 

 and under tail-coverts dull brownish red; bill blackish, with mandibular 

 rami grayish or brownish; legs and feet duskj^ (in dried skins); length, 

 (skins), 145.3-163.6 (154.9); wing, 74.4-78.2 (76.2); tail, 66.3-74.7 

 (70.1); exposed culmen, 13.2-14.7 (14); greatest width of mandibular 

 rami, 4.6-5.1 (4.8); tarsus, 20.3-21.8 (21.1); middle toe, 13-14.7 (14).' 



Young. — Similar in color to adult female, but texture of plumage 

 very different (loose and " woolly"). 



Colombia (Bogota; Santa Marta; Cartagena; etc.''), northward along 

 Caribbean coast to Chiriqui. 



Ramphocelus dimidiatus Lafeesnaye, Mag. de ZooL, ser. 7, 1837, classe ii, not- 

 Ixxxi, pi. 81 (Cartagena, Colombia). — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 

 242.— ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 156 (Bogota, Colombia); 1856, 

 129 (monogr. ; Cartagena, Santa Marta, and Bogota, Colombia; Chiriqui?; 

 Veragua ?; "Nicaragua"), 149 (Venezuela); 1858, 73 (Rio Najw, e. Ecua- 

 dor); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 53; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 79 (Colombia).— 

 Cassin, Proc. xVe. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 141 (Turbo, n. Colombia.— (?) Law- 

 rence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1865, 176 (David, Chiriqui). — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 627 (Venezuela); 1870, 780 (do.).— 

 (?) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 187, part (Mina de Chorcha, 

 Chiriqui). — Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 326 (Colombia; descr. nest and eggs). — 

 Robinson, Flying Trip to Tropics, 1895, 161 (Magdalena R. and Guaduas, 

 Colombia). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 141 (Santa Marta, 

 Colombia), 159 (Puebla Viejo, prov. Santa Marta), 179 (Palomina and San 

 Miguel, prov. Santa Marta).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. IL, xiii, 1900, 168 

 (Cacagualito, prov. Santa Marta). 



^ Ten specimens. 

 ^ Seven specimens. 



^Specimens from central Colombia ( " Bogota" ) average larger than those from the 

 northern coast district, average measurements being as follows: 



Locality. 



Three adult males from Bogota 



Seven adult males from Santa Marta and lower 

 Magdalena River 



