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Juvenal (sexes alike). — Similar to the adult but with the rectrices, 

 remiges, and upper wing coverts w'ashed with rufescent and mottled with 

 dusky, especially on the edges of the webs in the rectrices and remiges. 



Natal down. — Apparently unknown. 



Adult male.—Wmg 349-380 (363.9) ; tail 341-375 (360.6) ; culmen 

 from base 31-37 (34.5) ; tarsus 85-95 (90.4) ; middle toe without claw 

 62-69 (65.1 mm.). 25 



Adtdt female— Wmg 338-378 (353.4) ; tail 346-384 (357.1) ; culmen 

 from base 30-36 (32.6) ; tarsus 84-88 (86.6) ; middle toe without claw 

 58-65 (61.8mm.)."<^ 



Range. — Resident in tropical forests from Nicaragua (Los Sabalos, 

 Rio Escondido, Rio San Juan, San Carlos) ; Costa Rica (Bonilla, Bar- 

 ranca, La Palma de Nicoya, Volcan de Miravalles, Volcan de Irazii, 

 Jimenez, Naranjo de Cartago, La Palma de San Jose, Angostura, Pozo 

 Azul de Pirn's, El Pozo de Terraba) ; and Panama (Lion Hill, Davilla, 

 Boquete, Chiriqui, Jesusito, Barro Colorado, Guabo, Ranchon) to western 

 Colombia (Remedios, Antioquia, "Bogota," La Canela, Rio Frio, and 

 Santa Marta; Bonda, Las Tinajao, Don Diego, Minca) ; and western 

 Ecuador (Chimbo, Gualea, Naranjo, Balzar Mountains, Foreste del Rio 

 Peripa, Paramba, below Mindo, above Bucay, El Chiral). 



Type locality. — Foreste del Rio Peripa, western Ecuador. 



[Melcagris] cristata Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 157, part ("America 

 australi" ; based on The Qimn or Giian Edwards, Nat. Hist. Birds, i, 13, pi. 

 13 ; Jacupema Alarcgrave, Bras., 198 ; Co.volitli Hernandez, Mex. . . . ; PJmsianus 

 brasiliensts Ray, A v., 56) ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 269. 



Meleagris cristata Mijller, Syst. Nat. Suppl., 1776, 122. 



[Penelope] cristata Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1788, 72>2. — Latham, Index Orn., 

 ii, 1790, 619 ("Brazil"; "Guiana"). — Reichenbach, Synop. Av., Columb., ii, 

 1837, pi. 171, figs. 1501, 1502. — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. See. London, 

 1870, 543; Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 136.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 16 

 (Nicaragua and Ecuador). 



Penelope cristata Temminck, Pig. et Gallin., iii, 1815, 46, 691. — Stephens, in Shaw, 

 Gen. Zool., xi, pt. i, 1819, 178 ("Brazil").— Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist Nat., 

 xxxvi, 1819, 337. — Bennett, Gard. and Menag., ii, 1831, 131. — Lesson, Traite 

 d'Orn., 1831, 481.— Jardine, Contr. Orn., 1848, 27, pi. (anatomy, etc.).— BuR- 

 MEISTER, Syst. Ubers. Th. Bras., iii, 1856, 339. — Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1860, 269 ("West Indies?"; monogr.). — Huxley, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1868, 298, fig. of pelvis (osteology). — Sclater and S.^lvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1870, 525 (monogr.); 1879, 544 (Remedios, Antioquia, Colombia). — 

 Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 409 (La Palma de Nicoya, Costa 

 Rica; habits); vi, 1884, 408 (Los Sabalos, Nicaragua; fresh colors of un- 

 feathered parts). — Berlepsch and Taczanowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1883, 576 (Chimbo, w. Ecuador; fresh color of nude parts). — Zeledon, Anal. 

 Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 128 (Jimenez and Naranjo de Cartago, Costa 

 Rica). — Ogil\te-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 498 (Valza and La 



" Ten specimens from Costa Rica and Panama. 

 " Eight specimens from Costa Rica and Panama. 



