BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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yellowish white broadly barred with black, the bars more or less 

 V-shaped on under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts white, rather 

 narrowly barred with blackish ; inner webs of remiges dull slate color 

 or dusky, the greater part of secondaries and proximal portion of 

 primaries with broad transverse spots of white; bill slate-black 

 feet dusky (olive-greenish in life); length (skins), 176-198 (186) 

 wing, 116.5-125 (120); tail, 53-61.5 (57); culmen, 24-28 (26.3) 

 tarsus, 20-21 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 17-19.5 (18.3)." 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but pileum without any 

 red, the anterior portion of crown dull white, like forehead, passing 

 into light smoke gray or drab gray on occiput, and nape usually 

 lighter yellow (chrome yellow, more rarely cadmium yellow) ; length 

 (skins), 170-190 (179); wing, 112-125.5 (117.8); tail, 50-60.5 (54.9); 

 culmen, 22-26 (23.7); tarsus, 19-21 (19.6); outer anterior toe, 

 16.5-19 (17.6).^ 



Young male. — Similar to the adult male, but nape paler and duller 

 yellow, prefrontal region dull pale yellow or dull whitish, bars on 

 back, etc., less sharply defined, general color of under parts duller, 

 chest (usually, at least) more or less streaked or flecked with dusky, 

 and yellow of abdomen duller and more restricted. 



Costa Rica (San Jose; Cartago; Grecia; San Mateo; San Pedro; 

 Santo Domingo de San Mateo; Pigres; La Palma de Nicoya; Punta 

 Arenas; Tenorio; Bolson; Cerro Santa Maria; Volcan de Miravalles; 

 Bebedero; Alajuela; Escazii; Orosi; Carrillo; Guapiles; Guayabal; 

 Guayabo; Bonilla; Juan Vinas) and Nicaragua (Grenada; Leon; 

 Tres Granadas; Ometepe; Sucuya; San Juan del Sur; San Geronimo; 

 Volcan de Chinandega; Virgen). 



Cmturus hoffmannii Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., x, Sept., 1862, 322 (Costa Kica; 

 coll. Berlin Mus.?).— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidae, 1868, 100. 



Centurus hoffmanni Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 131 (San Jos^ and 

 Grecia, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Joum. fur Orn., 1869, 364 (Costa Rica). — 

 BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 49 (San Jose, Cartago, and Punta 

 Arenas, Costa Rica). — Zeled6n, Cat. Avea de Costa Rica, 1882, 23; Anal. 

 Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 124 (San Jose; Cartago; Alajuela). — Cherrie, 



a Thirteen specimens. 



b Eighteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



TaU. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Outer 

 ante- 

 rior toe. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Costa Rica 



Three adult males from Nicaragua. . . 



FEMALES. 



Ten adult females from Costa Rica... 

 Eight adult females from Nicaragua. 



120.2 

 119.2 



119 

 116.3 



56.2 

 59.7 



55.4 

 54.3 



2C.1 

 26.7 



23.8 

 23.6 



20.4 

 20.5 



19.6 

 19.6 



18.3 

 18.3 



17.3 

 17.9 



