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buffy white, forming a conspicuous area which extends farther back 

 laterally (to end of auricular region) than medially; foreneck, chest, 

 sides of breast, and sides plain dull metallic bluish bronze-green; 

 median portion of breast, whole abdomen, hiuder flanks, anal region, 

 and shorter under tail-coverts plain cinnamon; longer under tail- 

 coverts dull bronze-greenish, sometimes narrowly margined with 

 cinnamon ; under wing-coverts mostly dark grayish brown or fuscous, 

 famtly glossed with bronze-greenish; under surface of remiges slate- 

 dusky with basal portion abruptly dull white on primaries, pale cin- 

 namon or cuinamon-buff on secondaries; bill, legs, and feet black. 



Immature. — Similar to adults, but feathers of darker colored parts 

 more or less distinctly margined terminally with pale cinnamon or 

 dull buff y. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skms), 168.5-179.5 (174); wing, 71.5-72 

 (71.7); tail, 53.5-57 (55.2); exposed culmen, 36-48 (42); tarsus, 

 10-11.5 (10.7); outer anterior toe, 10.^ 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 175.5; wing, 71; tail, 56.5; exposed 

 culmen, 46.5; tarsus, 10.5; outer anterior toe, 10. '^ 



Eastern Panama (Cana, Darien), southward to central Colombia 

 (Rio Nichi, Antioquia). 



Brachygalba salmoni Sclater and. Saivin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 535 (Rio 

 Nichi, Antioquia, Colombia; coll. Salvin and Godman). — Sclater, Mon. 

 Jacam. and Puff-Birds, 1882, p. [43], pi. 13; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 

 173. 



Family BUCCONID^. 



THE PUFF BIRDS. 



<CBucconidse Boie, Isis, 1826, 976 (includes Capitonidse and Trogonidse). 

 =Bucconidx Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 268. — Cabanis and Heine, Mus. 



Heine, iv heft 1, 1863, 123.— Lilljeborg, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 16.— 



Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, pp. vi, 105. — Stejneger, Stand. 



Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 412, in text. — Fuerbringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., 



ii, 1888, 1325.— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 510.— 



Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 196. 

 =Bucconinx Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 124. — Sundevall, 



Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., ii, 1873, 76 (English translation, 1889, 149).— 



Gadow, Bronn's Thier-Reich, Vog., ii, 1873, 266, 301. 

 = Capitonidse Bonaparte, Prodr. Syst. Orn., 1840, 18; Consp. Av., i, Feb., 



1850, 146. 

 = Capitoninse Bonaparte, Prodr. Syst. Orn., 1840, 18; Consp. Av., i, Feb., 



1850, 146. 

 =Buccones Sharpe, Rev. Classif. Birds, 1891, 84; Hand-list, ii, 1900, 196. 

 = Tamatiss Fitzinger, Sitzungsberichte K. Akad. Wiss. Wien (Math.-nat. CL), 



xxi, 1856, 298. 



Small to medium-sized desmognathous Picarian Birds with very full, 

 lax, dull-colored plumage; pointed and anteriorly compressed bill, 

 with tip more or less strongly decurved, and both culmen and gonys 



« Two specimens, from Cana, e. Panamd. * One specimen, from Cana. 



