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pinkish buff, the sides and flanks more or less spotted with black; 

 bill black; iris pale brown ;« legs and feet dusky (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 187-205 (196); wing, 83.5-88 (86.6); 

 tail, 75-79.5 (78.1); exposed culmen, 31-33 (32.6); tarsus, 18-20 

 (19.2); outer anterior toe, 17-20 (18.4).'' 



Adult female. —Length (skins), 200-216 (208); wing, 87-93 (88.9); 

 tail, 79-86 (81.2); exposed culmen, 32-37 (33.9); tarsus, 18.5-21 

 (19.7); outer anterior toe, 17.5-20 (18.4).'' 



Young. — Similar to adults but pale gray spots on scapulars, etc., 

 smaller and less distinct (in younger specimens the feathers with a 

 narrow termmal margin of buff and a dusky subtermmal bar), edgings 

 of remiges and rectrices buff, and jugular band brownish black with 

 narrow terminal margins of buff (sometimes broken mto a transverse 

 series of spots). 



Northern and central Colombia (Rio Truando; Sabanilla, Carta- 

 gena; Barranquilla; Santa Marta; Bonda; Valle Dupar; Ocana; 

 Canuto; lower Rio Magdalena; vicinity of Bogota). 



C[apito] ruficollis Wagler, Isis, 1829, 658 ("Mexico"; coll. Berlin Mus.). 



[Captto] myico^Ks Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 146. 



B[ucco] ruficollis Gray, Genera Birds, i, 1846, 74. 



Bucco ruficollis Sclater, Ann. and Mag. N. H., ser. 2, xiii, 1854, 360 (monogr.); 

 Synopsis Bucconidas, 1854, 10, pi. 1; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 196 (Co- 

 lombia); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 270 (Santa Marta) ; Mon. Jacam. and Puff- 

 Birds, 1882, 89, pi. 29; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 187 (Santa Marta, 

 Sabanilla, Ocana, and Valle Dupar, Colombia).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1860, 134 (Rio Truando, Colombia).— Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 374 (Canuto, 

 Magdalena Valley, Colombia).— Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 205 (Valle 

 Dupdr, Santa Marta, Colombia); 1880, 175 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta); 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 514.— Berlepsch, Journ. fur Om., 1884, 318 

 (Bucaramanga, Colombia).— Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 133 

 (Santa Marta) .—Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, 305 (vicinity of 

 Bogota, Colombia).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 135 (Santa 

 Alarta and Bonda, S. M., Colombia; xxi, 1905, 280 (descr. eggs). 



[Bucco] ruficollis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 86, no. 1023.— Sclater and Salvin, 

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



[Chaunornis] ruficollis Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 128 (Consp Volucr 

 Zygod., 1854, 13). 



H[ypnelus] ruficollis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 144 (Car- 

 tagena and Barranquilla, Colombia). 



Tamatia gularis D'Orbigny and Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., Aug., 183S, 166 

 (Cartagena, Colombia). 



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



a Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 205. b Eight specimens. e Ten specimens. 



