472 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



horizontal, pointed anteriorly. Rictal bristles minute. Wing mod- 

 erate (a little less than three times as long as tarsus), ver}- much 

 rounded (sixth to fourth primaries longest, ninth much shorter than 

 secondaries, and eighth shorter than first); primaries exceeding sec- 

 ondaries by less than length of gonys. Tail about as long as wing, 

 less than half overlaid l)y upper coverts, the rectrices very broad and 

 semi-decomposed terminally, their tips acuminate. Tarsus long and 

 stout (more than twice as long as exposed culmen), its scutella indis- 

 tinct on outer side; middle toe with claw decidedly shorter than tarsus; 

 outer claw about reaching to base of middle claw, the inner a little 

 shorter: hind claw about as long as its digit — all the claws })ut slightly 

 curved, strong, and rather obtuse. 



Coloration. — Plain olive-green (lighter and more yellowish below), 

 the wings and tail dusky; head dark grayish with two l)road l)lack 

 stripes on sides of pileum, the chin and throat also black. 



^«n^e.— Highlands of Costa Rica and Chiriqui. (Monotypic.) 



PE70PETES CAPITALIS Cabanis. 

 LARGE-FOOTED SPARKOW, 



Adults {sfxex al'fh). — Above uniform olive-green, the wings and tail 

 dusky with olive-green edgings; pileum and hindneck black, divided 

 longitudinally by a median stripe of gray (this sometimes confined to 

 hindneck and nape or occiput); sides of head dark grayish becoming 

 black anteriorl}", the chin and throat also black; under parts light 

 olive-green (paler than upper parts), more brownish olive laterally and 

 sometimes inclining to olive-yellowish medially; bill black; legs juid 

 feet dark brownish. 



Adult male.— L&ngth. (skins), 198.12-203.20 (200.66); wing, 86.87- 

 91.41 (89.11); tail, 8T.6.3-89.11 (88.65); exposed culmen, 13.21-14.18 

 (13.97); depth of bill at base, 7.87-8.13 (8.00); tarsus, 32.51-34.29 

 (33.53); middle toe, 23.62-25.40 (24.55).^ 



Adidt femah'.^'Lo.n^th. (skins), 185.42-187.96 (186.69); wing, 80.77- 

 85.09 (83.13); tail, 81.28-83.06 (82.04); exposed culmen, 12.70-13.46 

 (12.95); depth of bill at base, 7.87-8.13 (8.00; tarsus, 32.51-33.02 

 (32.77); middle toe, 23.11-23.37 (23.28).- 



Highlands of Costa Rica (Volcan de Cartago, Volcan de Irazu) and 

 Chiriqui (Volcan de Chiriqui). 



Fezopetes capitalis Cabasis, Journ. fiir Orn., Nov., 1860, 415 (Costa Rica; Berlin 

 Mus.).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 101 (Costa Rica).— Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 189 (Volcan de Chiriqui). — Sclater, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 254 (Volcan de Cartago and Irazii distr., Costa Rica; 

 Volcan de Chiriqui). 



^ Three specimens. 



^ Three specimens, two of them with sex doubtful. 



