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Adult female. — Forehead (broadly), lores, and chin dull black; rest 

 of pileum olive-greenish, but this overlaid by a wash of ocher yellow 

 or dull saffron yellow (on tips of feathers), the latter color more pro- 

 nounced on fore part of crown, where sometimes forming a conspicu- 

 ous though not sharply defined patch; bar across side of neck saffron 

 yellow or ocher yellow; auricular and suborbital regions, anterior 

 part of malar region, and a narrow superciliary spot light grayish 

 blue, the terminal portion of auricular region (next to saffron yellow 

 or orange neck bar) more dusky; throat light grayish yellow, followed 

 by a broad band across foreneck or upper chest of saffron yellow or 

 orange; rest of plumage as in adult male, but chest usually olive 

 yellow (rarely tinged with saffron yellow) ; bUl, etc., as in adult male; 

 length (sldns), 130-153 (142); wing, 67-72 (68.9); tail, 44-49 (46.6); 

 exposed culmen, 17-20 (18.7); tarsus, 19.5-21 (20); outer anterior 

 toe, 14-15.5 (15).« 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male but red of pileum inter- 

 mixed with olive-green feathers (the occiput and nape sometimes 

 wholly olive green), that of the throat much duller, showing light 

 grayish bases to feathers. 



Young female. — Similar to the adult female but colors duller, with 

 differently colored areas not so strongly contrasted, and orange or 

 saffron-yellow chest band obsolete or faintly indicated. 



Costa Rica (Turrialba; Jimenez; Carrillo; La Estrella, Navarro, 

 Azahar, and Birris, Cartago; Orosi; Cervantes; Guayabo; Tobosi; 

 Cariblanco de Sarapiqui; San Jose; Barranca, Volcan de Poas; Ter- 

 raba; Laguaria and Los Reyes, Dota) and western Panama (Chitra; 

 Calobre; Boquete; Volcan de Chiriqui; El Banco; Lomo Lleno). 



Ca-pito bourcieri (notof Lafresnaye, 1845) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 212 

 (Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama); Ibis, 1870, 111 (Costa Rica; crit.).— Law- 

 rence, Ann, Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 130 (Barranca and Turrialba, Costa Rica). — 

 Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 363 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1878, 47 (Orosi and Navarro, Costa Rica). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. 

 Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 126 (Navarro de Cartago, Birris de Cartago, and 

 Jimenez, Costa Rica). — Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Merid. Costa Rica, 1893, 49 

 (T^rraba, Costa Rica). 



[Capito] bourcieri Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 110, part (Veragua; 

 Costa Rica). 



a Eighteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Costa Rica. . . 

 Ten adult males from Panama 



FEMALES 



Nine adult males from Costa Rica. . 

 Nine adult females from Panama . . . 



71.1 

 70.8 



46.7 

 46.6 



19 

 19.1 



18.7 

 18.7 



19.9 

 20.4 



20 

 20.1 



15.1 

 15.4 



15.2 

 1-1. 9 



