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in middle portion, light grayish on auricular region, the post-auricular 

 narrow and pointed extremity white, this stripe margined along lower 

 edge (except anteriorly) by a line or narrow stripe of black, the 

 anterior end of which is nearly beneath anterior angle of bare orbital 

 space; chin and upper throat didl buffy white to pale cinnamon-buff 

 deepening into deep rufous-cinnamon (mikado brown to pecan brown) 

 on foreneck, chest, and sides, this passing on abdomen into pale 

 cinnamon-buff or dull pinkish buff, the flanks and under tail-coverts 

 light snuff" brown to cinnamon-brown; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 brown, more or less tinged with chestnut; under surface of remiges 

 grayish brown; bill black ;'^ iris brownish orange;" bare orbital space 

 red;« legs and feet purphsh red;« length (skins), 269-308 (283); wing, 

 137.5-159(149.2); tail 83-92.5 (87.8) ; exposed culmen, 13.5-15 (14); 

 tarsus, 40-43.5 (41.5); middle toe, 29.5-32.5 (31.3).'' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male and often not distmguish- 

 able, but usually with color of chest slightly darker and gray of 

 pileum very slightly duller; length (skins), 262-319 (285); wing, 

 141-155 (150.2); tail, 75-95 (87.8); exposed culmen, 13.5-16 (14.8); 

 tarsus, 39-43 (41); middle toe, 29.5-32.5 (30.6).'= 



Young. — General color of upper parts (mcluding pileum) van- 

 dyke brown, the crown and occiput darker, the wing-cove'rts some- 

 times more rufescent; wing-coverts and scapulars with a subterminal 

 broad bar or transverse spot of dusky; under parts much as in adults 

 but foreneck, chest, and sides broadly barred with dull black or 

 dusky. 



Costa Rica (Cervantes; La Estrella de Cartago; Azahar de Cartago; 

 El Zarcero de Alajuela; Volcan de Irazu; Ujarras de Terraba; Cerro 

 de Santa Maria; La Candelaria; Tarrazu, Dota Mts.) and western 

 Panama (Boquete, Volcan de ChhiquI, David, and Boqueron, Chiriqiu; 

 Chitra, Castillo, Calovevora, and Calobre, Ver^gua). 



Geotrygon chiriquensis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 185G, 143 (David, Chlri- 

 qiii, w. Panama; coll. P. L. Sclater); 1858, 99 (crit.). — Reichenbach, Tauben, 

 ii, 1862, 165, part.— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 159 (David, Pana- 

 ma); 1870, 217 (f Castillo, Calovevora, Calobre, and Volcan de Chiriqui, w. 

 Panama).— Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., pt. viil, 1868, 123, 124, pi. 62.— 



o M. A. Carriker. 



b Eleven specimens. 



c Ten specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Tliree adult males from Costa Rica 



Eight adult males from western Panama. 



FEMALES. 



Six adult females from Costa Rica 



Four adult females from western Panama 



Wing. 



149.7 

 1-19 



152.1 

 147.5 



Tail. 



89.4 

 85.5 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



14.5 

 15.4 



Tarsus. 



42.8 

 40.9 



41.5 

 40.2 



Middle 

 toe. 



31.1 



29.9 



