BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 391 



breast, etc., the under parts sometimes nearly uniform tawny- 

 ochraceous ; adult female with throat and chest pale buff, the remain- 

 ing under parts less purely white (often pale buff) ; wing, bill, and 

 tarsus averaging decidedly shorter, tail averaging slightly longer. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 170-190 (182); wing, 80-88 (83.9); 

 tail, 70-79.5 (75.4); exposed culmen, 23.5-27 (26.1); tarsus, 16-18.5 

 (17.5); outer anterior toe, 14-16.5 (15.1).« 



Adultfemale.— Length (skins), 175-195 (184); wing, 82-90.5 (86.2) ; 

 tail, 72.5-85 (77.8); exposed cuhnen, 25-28.5 (27.4); tarsus, 17-18.5 

 (17.6); outer anterior toe, 14.5-16 (15.4).^ 



Caribbean slope of Costa Rica (Sipurio and Rio Sicsola, Talamanca; 

 Rio Siicio ; Guacimo ; Guapiles ; Guaitll; Guayabo; ElHogar; Carrillo; 

 Cuabre; Angostura; Pacuare; San Carlos; La Vijagua) and north- 

 ward through Nicaragua (Chontales; Greytown; Rio Grande; Rio 

 Escondido; Rio Coco; Savala, Uluce, and Tuma, Matagalpa; San 

 Carlos; Santo Domingo; Rama), Honduras (San Pedro Sula), British 

 Honduras (Toledo District; Moho River), Guatemala (Choctum; 

 Coban; Chisec; Los Amates, Yzabal), and Salvador to Tabasco 

 (Teapa) . 



Monasa inornata DuBtrs, Bull. Ac. Roy. Belg., xiv, pt. 2, no. 8, Aug., 1847, 107 

 (Guatemala; coll. Brussels Mus.). — Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1848, 249. — 

 Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 147. 



M[onasa\ inornata Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., p. 4. 



Malacoptila inornata Sclater, Ann. and Mag. N. H., eer. 2, xiii, 1854, 478 

 (monogr.); Synop. Bucconidse, 1854, 19; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 196 

 (east Peru); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 273 (Choctum, Guatemala); Mon. Jacam. 

 and Puff-Birds, 1882, 125, pi. 41; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 197 (Chisec, 

 Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 40 (Coban, Guate- 

 mala). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 118, part (Angostura, Costa 

 Rica). — Frantzitjs, Joum. fiir Orn., 1869, 311, part (Pacuare, Costa Rica). — 

 BoucARD, Liste Ois. recol. Guat., 1878, 24. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 517 (San Carlos, Rama, Santo Domingo, etc., 

 Nicaragua; etc.).— Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 91 (Los 

 Amates, Yzabdl, Guatemala; habits). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 

 1910, 580 (Caribbean slope, Costa Rica). 



[Malacoptila] inornata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 106. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 198. 



Malacoptila verse-pacis Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, ii, Jan., 1860, 40 (Coban, Guate- 

 mala; coll. Salvin and Godman). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 273 

 (Choctum, Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1867, 183 (Grey- 

 town, Nicaragua); ix, 1868, 118 (Pacuare and Guaitil, Costa Rica). 



M[alacoptila] verae-pacis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 139 

 (Guatemala). 



Malacoptila veraepads Frantzius, Joum. fiir Orn., 1869, 311 (Costa Rica). 



Malacoptila verapacis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1867, 183 (Greytown, 

 Nicaragua). 



o Twenty specimens. *> Twenty-five specimens. 



