570 



BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



at base, 7.11-T.*):^ (7.37); tar.su.s, IS.-tB-lB.OO (14.73); middle toe, 9.91- 

 11.94 (10.H7).' 



Lsthmu.s of Panama (Lion Hill Station, Panama Railroad) south to 

 central Peru, western and central Ecuador (Esmeraldas, Valle del Chota, 

 Quito. Puellaro, Chimbo, Cayandeled, etc.). southwestern Brazil (Cha- 

 pada, province of Matto Grosso), eastern Brazil (Pernambuco, Bahia, 

 Para, etc.), Guiana, Trinidad, etc. ; island of Grenada, Lesser Antilles. 



F-lringUki] gatluraJh Lichtenstein, Verz. Donbl., 1823, 26 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil; 

 Berlin Mus. ). 



S.[j>ermopMla^ griUuralis Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 386. 



Spermophiki grtUnralls Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 160 (Bogota, Colom- 

 bia) ; 1860, 293 (Esmeraldas, w. Ecuador); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 105 (Puel- 

 laro, Nanegal, and Esmeraldas, Ecuador; Para, lower Amazon); Ibis, 1871, 

 15 (monogr.).— ScLATEK and Salvix, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 352 (Lion 

 Hill, Panama R. R. ); 1867, 572 (Para, lower Amazon) ; 1876, 16 (Maranura, 

 high Pei'u); 1879, 507 (Medellin and Envigado, Colombia). — Pelzeln, Orn. 

 Bras., 1871, 225. — Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 328 (Ocaiia, Colondoia). — Layakd, Ibis, 



1873, 380 (Panl; habits; descr. eggs). — Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1874, 519 (Paltaypampa, Chilpes, and Amable Maria, centr. Peru); 1879, 229 

 (Tambillo, n. Peru); 1880, 199 (Callacate, n. Peru); Orn. du Perou, iii, 1886, 

 13. — Forbes, Ibis, 1881, 336 (Estancia, Quipapa, Garanhuns, etc., n. e. Bra- 

 zil; habits ).—Salvin, Ibis, 1885, 215 (Roraima, alt. 3,500 ft., British Guiana) ; 

 Novit. Zool., ii, 1895, 6 (Maleo, centr. Peru, alt. 8,000 ft. ).— Salvin and God- 

 max, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1885, 354 (Lion Hill; etc.). — Lawkexce, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 614 (Grenada, Lesser Antilles; habits).— 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 128, 820 (Pernambuco, Bahia, and 

 Pard, Brazil; Roraima, British Guiana; Trinidad; Bogota and Medellin, 

 Colombia; Lion Hill, Panama R. R. ; Quito, Nanegal, Puellaro, Esmeraldas, 

 and Cyandeled, Ecuador; Tambillo, Peru).— Cory, Auk, v, 1888, 158 (Gre- 

 nada) ;" Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 113, 151 (Grenada).— Ihering, Aves de S. 



^ Ten specimens. 



Specimens from different localities vary in average measurements as follows: 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Four adult males from Panama 



Seven adult males from Colombia (Bogota, etc.). 



One adult male from Peru (Santa Ana) 



Two adult males from Trinidad 



Four adult males from Grenada 



Four adult males from Venezuela 



One adult male from Ecuador (Nanegal) 



Three adult males from southwestern Brazil 



(Chapada)' 



Four adult males from eastern Brazil (Bahia) . . . 



FEMALES. 



Six adult females from Colombia (Bogota, etc.).. 



One adult female from Ecuador (Nanegal) 



Two adult females from Trinidad 



One adult female from southwestern Brazil (Cha- 

 pada ) 



13.97 

 14.22 

 15. 24 

 13.97 

 13.97 

 14.48 

 14. 22 



14.48 



14.48 



14. 73 

 16.00 



14.48 



Middle 

 toe. 



9.14 

 10.16 

 10.92 

 10.16 

 10.16 

 10.16 

 10.16 



10.67 

 10.41 



10. 92 

 11.68 

 10.41 



10.67 



