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NOTHARCHUS PECTORALIS (Gray). 



BLACK-BREASTED PUFF-BIRD. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileiim, nape, upper back, anterior scapulars, 

 foreneck, cliest, and breast, plain glossy greenish blue-black, passing 

 into "dead" black on anterior portion of malar region, suborbital 

 region, and lores; auricular region white, and from the posterior 

 extremity of this white area a collar of white across hindneck, the 

 feathers of which are narrowly tipped with black; chin and throat 

 white, with a strongly convex or semicircular, sharply defined, pos- 

 terior outline; lower back, rump, upper taU-coverts, tail, and wings 

 slate-black or blackish slate, the feathers narrowly margined termi- 

 nally with whitish, except primaries and primary coverts; abdo- 

 men, lower breast, anterior portion of sides, and under tail-coverts, 

 white; flanks and posterior part of sides dull slate color or slate-gray, 

 the feathers with a broad terminal margin of white and a narrower, 

 indistinct subterminal bar of darker slaty; bill black; legs and feet 

 dusky grayish or grayish black (in dried skins) . 



Adult male. — Length (skm), 206; wing, 97; tail, 80; exposed cul- 

 men, 31; tarsus, 17; outer anterior toe, 18.5." 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 205-207 (206); wing, 97-99 (98); 

 exposed culmen, 32.5-33 (32.7); tarsus, 16.5; outer anterior toe, 19.^ 



Eastern Panama (Lion Hill ; Chepo) to central Colombia (Magda- 

 lena Valley ; Nichi, Antioquia ; Bucaramanga) . 



Bucco pectoralis Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1846, [74], pi. 26; List Fissirostr. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., 1848, 47. — Sclater, Ann. and Mag. N. H., ser. 2, xiii, 



1854, 358 (monogr.); Synop. Bucconidge, 1854, 8; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1855, 196; Hon. Jacam. and Puff-birds, 1882, 75, pi. 24; Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xix, 1891, 184 (Lion Hill and Chepo, Panama; Magdalena Valley 

 and Antioquia, Colombia). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 464 

 (Lion Hill, Panama). — ^Sclateu and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 

 363 (Lion Hill); 1879, 536 (Niclii, Antioquia, Colombia).— Wtatt, Ibis, 

 1871, 374 (Magdalena Valley, Colombia).— Berlepsch, Journ. fur Orn., 

 1884, 277, 315 (Bucaramanga, Colombia), — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 513. 



[Bucco] pectoralis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 85, no. 1011. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 105.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 197. 



[Capito] pectoralis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 146. 



[Tamatia] pectoralis Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 128 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 13). 



N[otfuirchus] pectoralis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 152. 



NOTHARCHUS TECTUS SUBTECTUS (^clater). 



PANAMA PIED PUFF-BIRD. 



Similar to N. tectus tectus ^ but averaging slightly smaller ; black 

 jugular band narrower, and white spotting of pileum usually confined 

 to forehead, and there sometimes indistinct. 



" One specimen. b Two specimens. c See page 376. 



