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Adult female.— Length (skins), 470-503 (486); wing, 164-178 

 (170.3); tail, 252-280 (265) ; exposed cuimen, 43.5-47 (45.8) ; tarsus, 

 68.5-73 (71.2); outer anterior toe, 34-37 (36) .« 



Nicaragua (Cliontalcs;Savala, Matagalpa;Pena Blanca;Rio Tuma) 

 Costa Rica (Volcan de Miravalles; Cerro Santa Maria; La Vijagua; 

 Cariblanco deSarapiqui; Bonilla; Rio Sicsola, Talamanca), and Pan- 

 ama(Santiago and Cordillera de Tole,Veragua; Cascajal,Cocle; Gatun, 

 Canal Zone); Colombia; Ecuador.^ 



Neomorphus salvini Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 60, pi. 5 (Veragua, 

 Panama; coll. O. Salvin). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 156 (San- 

 tiago de Veragua and Cordillera de Tole, Panama); Ibis, 1872, 313, 323 (Chon- 

 tales, Nicaragua). — Lawrence, Ibis, 1873, 291 (monogr.; crit.). — Zeledon, 

 Anal. Mus. Nat., Costa Rica, i, 1887, 123 (Costa Rica).— Shelley, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 417 (Nicaragua; Veragua; Colombia; Rio 

 Cotopaza, Ecuador). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 

 533, part (Chontales, Nicaragua; Santiago de Veragua; Panama; Colombia; 

 Ecuador). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 445 (Volcan de Miravalles, n. w. Costa 

 Rica; habits). — Ridgway, Condor, vii, 1905, 156, in text (Bonilla, Costa 

 Rica). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, 1909, 30 (La Vijagua and Cerro 

 Santa Maria, n. Costa Rica). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 

 566 (Bonilla, Cariblanco de Sarapiqui, and Rio Sicsola, Costa Rica; habits). 



[Neomorphus] salvini Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 107. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 174. 



Genus DROMOCOCCYX Maximilian. 



Dromococq/x Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1832, 351. (Type, Macropus 

 phasianellus Spix.) 



Geo-tacco Verreaux, Rev. et Mag. d'Zool., i, 1849, 277. (Type, G. macrourus 

 YeYreavLX= Macropus phasianellus Spix.) 



Macropus c (not of Latreille, 1802) Spix, Av. Bras., i, 1824, 53. (Type, M. phas- 

 ianellus Spix.) 



Geophilus<i Bertoni, Aves Nuevas del Paraguay, 1901, 43. (Type, G. jasijatere 

 Bertoni= Macropus phasinellus Spix.) 



o Three specimens. 



Locality. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



Three adult males fromNicaragua 



One adult male from Costa Rica 



One adult male from eastern Panama ( Gatun) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Nicaragua 



Two adult females from Costa Rica 



35.5 

 36.5 

 37 



37 

 35.5 



b I have not seen specimens from Colombia nor Ecuador. 



<' MaKpdc, long; -o(if, foot. (Richmond.) 



^ r^, ground, earth; ^chc. loving. (Bertoni.) 



