BIRDS OF N'OBTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



473 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 282-315 (303); wing, 106-116 

 (110.9); tail, 151.5-186.5 (168.6); exposed culmen, 34-39 (36.5); 

 tarsus, 16.5-18 (17.2); middle toe, 13-15 (13.9).*^ 



Eastern Nicaragua (Bluefields River; Chontales; Rio Escondido) 

 southward through Costa Rica (Volcan de Miravalles; La Vijagua; 

 Volcan de Turrialba ; Guayabo; Bonilla; Rio Reventazon; ElHogar; 

 Gudpiles; Jimenez; La Junta; Atirro; Barranca; Angostura; mouth 

 of Rio Matina; Talamanca) to Panama (Boquer6n, Chiriqui; Santa Fe 

 and Calobre, Veragua; Lion Hill; San Pablo; Frijole; Chepo). 



Prionirhynchus ■plalyrhynchus (not Momotus platyrhynchus Leadbeater) Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 256, part (monogr.). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 362 (Lion Hill, Panama); 1867, 279 (Bluefields R., 

 Nicaragua). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 151 (Santa Fe de Veragua, 

 Panama); Ibis, 1872, 321 (Chontales, Nicaragua). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. 

 N. Y., ix, 1868, 117 (AtiiTo, Barranca, and Angostura, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 311 (Costa Rica).— Zeledon, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 viii, 1885, 109 (Costa Rica); Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 119 (Ba- 

 rranca, Angostura, and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xvii, 1892, 315, part (Chontales, etc., Nicaragua; Angostui-a, Costa 

 Rica; Chepo, Panama, etc., Panama). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 xvi, 1893, 510 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 443 

 (Volcan de Miravalles, Costa Rica). 



[Prionirhynchus] platyrhynchus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 102, 

 part. 



Crypticus platyrhynchus Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 136 (Rio Nercua, 

 Colombia). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 290 (Lion Hill, Panama). 



Prionornis platyrhynchus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 

 58*, July, 1895, 467, part (Chontales, etc., Nicaragua; Atirro, etc., Costa Rica; 

 Lion Hill, etc., Panama). 



Prionirhynchus platyrhynchus minor Hartert, Novit. Zool., v, no. iv, Dec. 31, 

 1898, 498 (Panama; coll. Tring Mus.). 



r[rionirhynchus] p[latyrhynchus] minor Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xiv, 1907, 404 

 (Panama; Costa Rica; Nicaragua). 



a Twelve specimens. 



