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pair), the latter exceeding second pair by less than half the length of 

 tarsus; rectriccs 10, the middle pair always with webs continuous, 

 the tip rounded. Tarsus slightly longer than middle toe with claw, 

 about one-fourth as long as wing, slender. 



Coloration. — Above dull green, the occiput, nape, and hindneck 

 rufescent, the superciliary region greenish blue; auricular tufts black; 

 elongated feathers of throat buffy whitish; chest and breast light 

 greenish, the remaining under parts pale buff medially deepening 

 into more pronounced buff, or ochraceous, on sides and flanks. 



Range. — Southeastern Mexico to eastern Panama. (Monotypic.) 



KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF HYLOMANES MOMOTULA. 



a. Rufous of pileum and hindneck lighter or clearer (usually both); forehead lesa 

 distinctly or extensively brown or olivaceous; darker color of under parts aver- 

 aging paler. (Southeastern Mexico to Honduras.) 



Hylomanes momotula momotula (p. 485). 

 aa. Rufous of pileum and hindneck darker or duller (or both); forehead more dis- 

 tinctly and extensively brown or olivaceous (this often covering whole crown); 

 darker color of under parts averaging darker and more olivaceous or greenish. 

 (Northwestern Costa Rica to eastern Panama.) 



Hylomanes momotula obscurus (p. 487). 



HYLOMANES MOMOTULA MOMOTULA Lichtenstein. 



TODY-MOTMOT. 



Adults (sexes alike) . — Anterior portion of forehead pale cumamon or 

 cinnamon-buffy, the rest of forehead, together with more or less of 

 crown, olive-greenish more or less suffused with rusty, the occiput, 

 nape, and hindneck dull cinnamon-rufous or russet; rest of upper 

 parts plain dark, slightly olivaceous, green (dark dull parrot green), 

 duller (more olive-green) on remiges and rectrices, the outer and 

 longer primaries edged (at least distally) with light brownish; a 

 large patch of bright greenish blue (nile or turquoise) on each side 

 of crown, margined below, in part, by a narrow black space imme- 

 diately above eye, this connected (usually) anteriorly with another 

 narrow black area immediately beneath eye, this confluent with the 

 black auricular patch ; lores pale buffy or dull buffy white, this con- 

 tinued (as a more or less distinct broad streak) beneath the black 

 suborbital and auricular area; supra-auricular region, mixed with dull 

 greenish and rusty (one or the other usually predominating) ; malar 

 region and sides of neck plain olive-greenish (the feathers with more 

 or less of buffy beneath surface), the foreneck and chest similar, pass- 

 ing into more uniform light olive-greenish, sometimes tmged \\ath 

 light verdigris green, on upper breast and into plain buffy olive- 

 greenish on sides and flanks, the lower breast and abdomen dull 

 white; a tuft of elongated feathers of dull white or buffy on each 

 side of throat, the space between mixed buffy and light olive or olive- 



