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remaining under parts plain rich deep orange-rufous or chestnut- 

 rufous; axillars and under wing-coverts uniform orange-ochraceous ; 

 inner webs of remiges with transverse spots of white, these not reach- 

 ing to shafts; bill black, the lower basal portion pale brownish (m 

 dried skins) ; legs and feet brownish (in dried skins) ; length (sldns) , 

 199-235 (212); wing, 93-98.5 (95.5); tail, 58.5-66 (62.4); exposed 

 cuhnen, 48-55 (51.2); tarsus, 9-10.5 (10); middle toe, 13-14 (13.5).^^ 



Adult female. — Similar to adult male, but the light orange-rufous 

 of foreneck separated from the deep orange-rufous or chestnut-rufous 

 of breast, etc., by a broad jugular band of uniform, or nearly uniform, 

 dark metallic bronze-green laterally, broadly barred with white and 

 dark metallic bronze-green medially; length (skins), 200-238 (218); 

 wing, 95-105.5 (99.2); tail, 61.5-73 (65); exposed culmen, 47-56 

 (50.9); tarsus, 9.5-10.5 (10.1); middle toe, 13-15 (13.9).^ 



Young male. — Similar to the adult female, but white of chest more 

 or less tmged with buff or cinnamon-buff, and wing-coverts and sec- 

 ondaries with a greater or less number of more or less distinct small 

 spots or flecks of white. 



Eastern Nicaragua (Greytown; Rio Escondido), eastern Costa Rica 

 (Rio Frio), Panama (Veragua; Lion HiU; Laguna del Pita; Colon; 

 Rio Indio; Puerto Bello; San Miguel Island), and southward over 

 lowlands of South America to Ecuador (Sarayacu; Palmal), eastern 

 Peru (Santa Cruz, Rio Huallaga), southern Brazil (Cantogallo; Santa 

 Catarma?; Bahia; etc.), British Guiana (Demerara; Ourumu; Cama- 

 cusa; Bartica Grove; Mazaruni River), Surinam (Paramaribo; 

 Maruni River) , and Cayenne. 



o Twenty-five specimens. 



b Nineteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Costa Rica 



Nine adult males from Panama (mainland) 



Five adult males from San Miguel I., Panama 



Two adult males from Colombia 



Three adult males from Venezuela 



Five adult males from Brit. Guiana, Cayenne, and Surinam 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Nicaragua 



Six adult females from Panama (mainland) 



Two adult females from San Miguel I , Panama 



Three adult females from Colombia 



Two adult females from Venezuela 



Four adult males from Brit. Guiana (3) and Surinam (1). . . 

 One adult female from Brazil 



13.3 

 13.6 

 13.5 

 13.7 

 13.6 



14.5 



13.4 



14 



14.2 



14 



13.7 



15 



