380 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adults {sexes alike). — General color of upper parts deep black, 

 passing into dull grayish black or dull sooty grayish on lower rump ; 

 forehead (sometimes part of crown also) with more or less numerous 

 small spots or guttata streaks of white; a narrow superciliary stripe 

 of white and posterior scapulars partly white, forming a conspicuous 

 spot on each side of lower back; upper tail-coverts narrowly margined 

 terminally with white, sometimes with indistinct concealed bars or 

 spots of the same; inner webs of rectrices (except middle pair) with a 

 terminal white spot and another (more quadrate in form) across 

 middle portion, the outer web of each usually grayish at tip, the out- 

 ermost (on each side) with a white space corresponding to that on 

 inner web, the next usually with a more or less distinct grayish one ; 

 lower half of loral region, suborbital region, and auricular region 

 black; malar region and under parts white, the chest crossed by a 

 broad, sharply defined, band of deep black, the sides and flanks more 

 or less barred, spotted, or clouded with duU black or slate-black; bill, 

 legs, and feet black. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 136-151 (146); wmg, 66.5-70.5 

 (68.2); tail, 50-58.5 (55.1); exposed culmen, 20.5-22 (21.4); tarsus, 

 13-13.5 (13.2); outer anterior toe, 13.5-14.5 (14).« 



Adult female.— Length (skms), 136-152 (147); wing, 68.5-73.5 

 (71.1); tail, 54-60.5 (56.7) ; exposed culmen, 20.5-22 (21.6); tarsus, 

 13-14 (13.4); outer anterior toe, 14-15 (14.2).'' 



Panama (Panama; Lion Hill; Gatun; Kio Indio) through Colombia 

 (lower Rio Magdalena; Nichi, Antioqula) to western Ecuad6r 

 (Esmeraldas). 



Bucco subtectus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 296 (Esmeraldas, w. 

 Ecuador; colL P. L. Sclater); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 270; Mon. Jacam. and 

 Puff-Birds, 1882, 83, pi. 27; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 186 (Esmer- 

 aldas; Nichi, Antioquia, Colombia; Lion Hill, Panama, and Veragua, 

 Panama). — ^Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 363 (Lion 

 Hill; crit.); 1879, 536 (Nichi, Antioquia).— Taczanowski and Berlepsch, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, 118, 123 (Esmeraldas). — Salvin and Godman, 

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



[B71CC0] subtectus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 86, no. 1021. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 106.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 197. 



N[othriscus] subtectus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 147 

 (coast of Ecuador), 



Bucco tectus (not of Boddaert) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 318 (Lion 

 Hill, Panama). 



Genus HYPNELUS Cabanis and Heine. 



Hypnelus^^ Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, Jan. 10, 1863, 143. (Type, 

 Tamatia bicincta Gould.) 



« Six specimens. 



b Six specimens from Panama (Canal Zone). 



c "Von u7:vTik6c=d7zv6.koc (schlairig)." (Cabanis and Heine.) 



