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Adult feinale.—WiTig 206-232 (219) ; tail 143-168 (154.7) ; exposed 

 culmen 60 (60) ; tarsus 55-60 (57.T) ; middle toe without claw 43-45 

 (43.7 mm.).'* 



Range. — Eesident in the rain forest in the vicinity of sti'eams from 

 Guatemala (Vera Paz; Santo Tomas; mountains southeast of Coban; 

 cliiefly in the Caribbean slope) ; Honduras (La Ceiba) ; Costa Kica 

 (Angostura; Valza; Machuca; Aguacate Mountains; Pozo Azul de 

 Pirris; Monte Eedondo; Carrillo; Tenorio; Cariblanco de Sara- 

 piqui; El Hogar; Gualpes) ; and Panama (Gatun; Bayano River; 

 Santa Fe de Veragua; Cordillera de Tole; Cordillera del Chucu; 

 Volcan de Chiriqui; Lion Hill; Cricamola; Guabo; Perme) ; western 

 Colombia (Nichi; Antioquia; "Bogota"; La Salaqui; Choco; not 

 recorded from Santa Marta) and western Ecuador (Yauayacu; Rio 

 Blanco; Rio Suno; below San Jose; Santo Domingo; Rio Chimbo 

 near Puente de Chimbo; Pallatanga). 



Recorded from northwestern Venezuela (Puerto Cabello, but sub- 

 specific identification requires checking). 



Type locality. — Colombia. 



Eurypyga major Haetlatjb, Journ. fiir Orn., i, 1853, 37 (Colombia). — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 371 (Panama) ; 1879, 546 (Nichi, 

 Antioquia, Colombia). — Schlegel. Mus. Pays-Bas, v, No. 30, livr. 7 (Ralli), 

 1865, 74.— SoLATER, Ibis, 1866, 205 (Guatemala).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1867, 161 (Santa Fe and Cordillera de Tole, Veragua, w. Panama) ; 

 1870, 218 (Cordillera del Chucu and Volcan de Chiriqui, w. Panama). — 

 Lawkence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ix, 1869, 142 (Angostura, Costa 

 Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 377 (Costa Rica). — Zeledon, I'roc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 113 (Costa Rica).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxiii, 1894, 242 (Vera Paz and mountains se. of Coban, Guatemala; Valza, 

 Costa Rica ; Cordillera de Tole, Cordillera del Chucu, Santa Fe de Veragua, 

 and Volcan de Chiriqui, w. Panama ; Nichi and Bogota, Colombia ; Yauayacu 

 and Rio Blanco, Ecuador).— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. for 1896-97 

 (1899), 219 (Santo Tomas, Guatemala).— Goodfellow, Ibis, 1902, 230 (Santo 

 Domingo, w. Ecuador). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 

 1903, 334 (Vera Paz and mountains se. of Coban, Guatemala; Angostura, 

 Machuca, Aguacate Mountains, Valza, Pozo Azul de Pirris, and Monte Re- 

 dondo, Costa Rica; Santa Fe, Cordillera del Chucu, Cordillera de Tol^, and 

 s. slope Volcan de Chiriqui, w. Panama; Colombia; Ecuador). — Cakeiker, 

 Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 425 (Carrillo, Tenorio, Cariblanco de Sarapiqui. 

 El Hogar, and Gufipiles, Costa Rica; habits). — Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Bull. 128, 1914, 47 (range). — Chapman, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist, xxxvi, 

 1917, 226 (La Salaqui, Choco, Colombia). — Stuegis, Field Book Birds Panama 

 Canal Zone, 1928, 76 (descr. ; habits, Panama). 



E[i(rypi/ga] major Hartlaub, Syst. Verz. Mus. Bremen, 1844, 108 (Colombia). — 

 Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849. 554. 



[Eurypyga] major Geay, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 26, No. 10097. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 141.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 181. 



Three specimens from Honduras and PanamH. 



