BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 463 



Momotus subrufescens (not of Sclater) Lawrence, Ami. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 318 

 (Lion Hill, Panama). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. See. Lend., 1864, 

 362 (Lion Hill; crit.).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 321, part 

 (Chiriqui?; Chepo, and Panama, Panama). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 459 (Lion Hill; Chepo). — Salvadori and Festa, 

 Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., xiv, 1899, no. 339, 8 (Punta de Sabana, Panama). — 

 Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PHla., 1899, 305 (Ambalema, s.-centr. Colombia). 



[Momotus] subrufescens Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 102, part 

 (Panama). — Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 77, part (Panama). 



3I[omotus] subrufescens SAhvm , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 150, in text (Panama). 



Momotus conexus Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xlvi, Jan., 1906, 

 215 (Sabana de Panama; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



MOMOTUS SUBRUFESCENS RECONDITUS (Nelson). 



CHESTNUT-BELLIED MOTMOT. 



Similar to M. s. conexus but coloration decidedly darker (back dark 

 citrine instead of clear olive-green, under parts dull sudan brown or 

 brussels brown instead of clear brownish tawny) and anterior under 

 parts very slightly if at all glossed with olive-green; in the last char- 

 acter agreemg with M. s. subrufescens, but coloration much darker 

 throughout. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 425; wing, 130; tail, 271; exposed 

 culmen, 41.5; tarsus, 28.5; middle toe, 19.* 



Eastern Panama (Marraganti; Boca de Cupe). 



Momotus conexus reconditus Nelson, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 60, no. 3, Sept. 

 27, 1912, 4 (Marraganti, e. Panama; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



MOMOTUS MEXICANUS MEXICANUS Swainson. 



MEXICAN MOTMOT. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck plain tawny, rufous- 

 tawny, or (rarely?) cinnamon-rufous, passing into glaucous grayish 

 green to light brownish ohve-green on back, scapulars, rump, upper 

 tail-coverts, wing-coverts, and secondaries, the center of crown some- 

 times tinged with duU greenish or olive-greenish; alula, primary 

 coverts, and primaries dull bluish green ; tail dull bluish green, more 

 bluish distally, the middle rectrices broadly tipped with dull black; 

 shafts of remiges and rectrices black; loral, orbital, and auricular 

 regions black, the black beneath eye margined below by a patch of 

 dull blue (nearly campanula) ; under parts mostly pale buffy green- 

 ish, passing into buffy whitish posteriorly, the color more pronounced 

 on chest and foreneck, which are sometimes tinged with yellowish 

 buffy ; lower foreneck with a median tuft of elongated black feathers, 

 narrowly edged (except distally) with pale bluish green or greenish 



a One specimen, from Boca de Cupe. A specimen (type of the subspecies, sex 

 not determined) from Marraganti is decidedly smaller, measuring as follows: Length 

 (skin), 391; wing, 124; tail, 236; exposed culmen, 38.5; tarsus, 28; middle toe, IS. 



