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red in life, fading to dull orange in dried skins ; iris chestnut ; " legs 

 and feet blackish (in dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but general coloration duller, more 

 sooty, frontal area tawny, and chin and throat black, more or less 

 broken by indistinct streaks of dull brownish white or pale tawny: 

 bill pinkish; "' iris dark brown.'^ 



'Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 255-293 (273); wing, 133-146.5 

 (139.8); tail, 117.5-132 (123); exposed culmen, 35-39 (37.1); tar- 

 sus, 20-22 (21.1); outer anterior toe, 17.5-20 (18.9).^ 



Adult female.— LeTigih. (skins), 270-295 (286); wing, 139-149.5 

 (144.3); tail, 121.5-132.5 (126.9); exposed culmen, 36-40.5 (38.5); 

 tarsus, 21-22 (21.4); outer anterior toe, 17-19.5 (18.6).'= 



Caribbean slope of Costa Rica (Sipiirio, Talamanca; Siquirres; 

 Rio Sucio; Rio Banana; El Hogdr; Guapiles; Guacimo; Cuabre; 

 Pacuare; Angostura; Jimenez; San Carlos; La Vijagua) and Nica- 

 ragua (La Libertad, Chontales; Vizagua; Rio Tuma, Matagalpa; 

 Mosquito coast). 



Monasa peruana (not of Sclater) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 118 (San 

 Carlos, " San Jos^ " i. e. Talamanca, Pacuare, and "Payna," Costa Rica), 146 

 (Costa Rica; crit.). — Frantzius, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 312 (San Carlos; 

 Pacuare). 



Monasa grandior Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 327 (Angos- 

 tura, Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman). — Salvin, Ibis, 1872, 322 (Chon- 

 tales, Nicaragua). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1887, 120 (Rio Sucio 

 and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 ii, 1896, 520 (Mosquito coast, Chontales, and La Libertad, Nicaragua; Angos- 

 tura, Pacuare, San Carlos, "San Jos6," Rio Sucio, and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — 

 Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 581 (Caribbean lowlands of Costa 

 Rica, up to 1,200 or 1,800 ft.; habits). 



M[onasa] grandior Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 315 (Costa Rica). 



[Monasa] grandior Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 106. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 200. 



Monacha grandior Sclater, Mon. Jacam. and Puff-Birds, 1882, 155, pi. 52; Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 205. 



o Jos6 C. Zeled6n, manuscript. 

 & Twenty-five specimens, 

 c Eleven specimens. 



Locality. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Costa Rica 



Five adult males from Nicaragua. . . 



FEMALE.S. 



Ten adult females from Costa Rica . 

 One adult female from Nicaragua. . . 



18.6 

 19.3 



18.5 

 19.5 



