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Adult feniale.—Wmg 71-79 (74.5) ; tail 24^33.5 (29.6) ; exposed 

 culmen 15.5-18.5 (17.1) ; tarsus 27-30 (28.5) ; middle toe without claw 

 28-34 (30.5 mm.).«^ 



Range. — Eesident from southwestern Costa Kica (Gulf of Nicoya; 

 Nicoya; Las Trojas) on the Pacific side, and Veraguas, Panama, on 

 the Caribbean, south through eastern Panama (Laguna del Pita; 

 Canal Zone; Lion Hill; Cana, Darien; Perme), and western Colombia 

 (Yumbo, Valle; Remedios; Antioquia; San Antonio; Barbacoas) ; 

 to western Ecuador (San Javier; Santo Domingo; Esmeraldas; Rio 

 de Oro) ; and east to Santa Marta, Colombia (Pueblo Viejo; Mama- 

 toco; Fundacion; La Concepcion; Cienaga; Palomina). 



Type locality. — "Atlantic side of the Isthmus of Panama along the 

 line of the Panama Railroad." 



Corethrura alhigularis Lawrence, Anu. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1862, 302 

 (Lion Hill, Panama; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soe. London, 1S64, 372, part (Panama). 



Porzana albigularis Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 454, 

 part (monogr.). — 1879, 546 (Remedios, Antioquia, Colombia; descr., nest 

 and eggs) ; Exotic Orn., ISGS, 109, part, pi. 55 — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. 

 Hist. New York, is, 1868 (publ. 1869), 142, (Gulf of Nicoya, Costa Rica) — 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1881, 201, part; vi, 1883, 409, footnote (di- 

 agnosis) ; X, 1887, 111 (diagnosis). — Zeledon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 

 1885, 114 (Costa Rica) ; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1888, 131 (Costa 

 Rica). — Richmond, Auk. xii, 1895, 31 (synonymy; crit.).— Bangs, Proc. Biol. 

 Soc. "Washington, xii, 1898, 157 (Pueblo Viejo, Santa Marta, Colombia), 172 

 (Palomina, Santa Marta) ; Proc. New England Zool. Club, ii, 1900, 14 

 (Loma del Leon, Panama). 



[Porzmia] albigularis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 140, part. — 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 111 (diagnosis; range). 



[Aiamides] albigularis Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 61, No. 10442. 



Creciscus albigularis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 140 (Bar- 

 ranca de Nicoya, Costa Rica ; Veragua, w. Panama ; Lion Hill, Panama ; 

 RemMios, Colombia; excl. loc. "Nicaragua"). — H-vktert, Nov. Zool., ix, 

 1902, 604 (San Javier, nw. Ecuador; crit. ) .—Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 324 (Las Trojas, Costa Rica; Veragua, Lion 

 Hill, and Laguna del Pita, Panama, Colombia). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie 

 Mus., vi, 1910, 410 (Pacific coast Costa Rica; crit.). — Menegaux, Rapporte's, 

 Dr. Rivet, Mission Serv. Geogr., "Arc Merid. Equat. en Amer. du Sud, 

 Sous le Contr. Sci. de I'Acad. Sci. de France," Zool., ix, 1911, 8 (Santo Do- 

 mingo, Ecuador).— CooKE, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 36 (range).— 

 Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxvi, 1917, 218 (San Antonio and 

 Barbacoas, Colombia; crit.). — Todd and Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., 

 xiv, 1922, 179 (La Concepcion, Mamatoco, and Fundacion, Santa Marta, 

 Colombia).— Chapman. Bull. Amor. Mus. Nat. Hist., Iv, 1926, 178 (Esmer- 

 aldas and Rio de Oro, Ecuador). — Stukgis, Field Book Birds Panama Canal 

 Zone, 1928, 43 (descr.; Panama Canal Zone).— Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., Ixix, 1929, 155 (Cana, Darien, Panama) ; Ixxii, 1932, 321 (Perme, 



"Fifteen specimens from Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia; including tbe 

 type of alfari Ridgway. 



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