BIRDS OS* NORTH A)^t> MiDDLfi AMeRICA. 4^3 



color, darker terminally; iris pink; legs and feet flesh color; length 

 (skins), 140-152 (147); wing, 71-78 (74); tail, 48-55 (50.5); exposed 

 cuhnen, 10-11 (10.6); tarsus, 15-16 (15.6). « 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but the vinaceous-drab 

 of head, neck, and under parts replaced by light drab or drab-gray, 

 fadmg into white on chin, upper throat, and abdomen, the wing- 

 coverts without vinaceous tinge, the greater coverts edged with 

 whitish, the whole pileum and hindneck grayish brown or drab 

 (paler on anterior portion of forehead); length (skins), 145-162 (151); 

 wmg, 71-79 (74); tail, 47-52 (50); exposed cuhnen, 10-11 (10.7); 

 tarsus, 15-16 (15.4).« 



Young. — Similar to the adult female, but wing-coverts, scapulars, 

 proximal secondaries, and upper tail-coverts margined terminally 

 with paler, the interscapulars and feathers of lower rump with nar- 

 rower and less distinct paler terminal margins; flanks and under tail- 

 coverts suffused with pale buffy brown. 



West-central Colombia (Bogota; Bucaramanga; Ocana; Herradura), 

 Panama (Panama Railway; Sabana de Panama; Gatun; Rio Indio 

 near Gatun; Corozal), and southwestern Costa Rica (Buenos Aires 

 de Terraba; Paso Real, Boruca); reappearing in Guatemala (Retal- 

 huleu; Los Amates, Yzabal), British Honduras (Toledo District; 

 Manatee District), Campeche (Campeche), Tabasco (Montecristo), 

 and Vera Cruz (Atoyac). 



(f) Chamse-pelia minuta (not Columha minuta Linnaeus?) Reichenbach, Syn. 

 Avium, Columbariae, 1847, pi. 256, figs. 1422, 1423. 



Chamsepelia minuta Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 481, part 

 (Atoyac, Vera Cruz; Retalhuleu, Guatemala; Panama; Bogota, Colombia). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1902, 252, part (Atoyac, 

 Vera Cruz; Retalhuleu, Guatemala; Panama). 



[Chavixpelia] minuta Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 82, part (Mexico to Panama). 



Columhigallina viinuta Dubois, Synopsis Avium, ii, 1902, 764, part (s. Mexico; 

 Central America). — Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xlvi, 1906, 

 214 (Sabana de Panama). 



Chsemepella minuta Bangs, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 288, 292 (Paso Real, Costa Rica). 



Chxmepelia minuta Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 80 (Los Amates, 

 Guatemala). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 399 (Buenos Aires de 

 Terraba, Costa Rica; habits). 



Chamepelia minuta Rodriguez, Anal. Mus. Nac. Salvador, iv, 1910, 282 (Guate- 

 mala). 



Chxmepelia amazilia (not of Bonaparte) Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Columbae, 

 1856, 50, part (Colombia). 



Chamxpelia amazilia Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 30 (Bogota, Colom- 

 bia,). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 370 (Panama). — 

 (?) Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 383 (Ocana and Herradura, Bucaramanga, Colombia). — 

 (?) Berlepsch, Joiu-n. fiir Orn., 1884, 319 (Ocaiia and Herradura, ex Wyatt). 



Chamxpelia granaiina (not of Bonaparte) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 

 333 (Panama R. R.). 



o Ten specimens. 



