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TINAMUS MAJOR FTTSCIPENNIS Salvadori 



Tinamus fuscipennis Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol, 27, after Sept. 6, 1895, 

 p. 500, (Escondido River, and San Rafael, Nicaragua = Rio Escondido, 

 Nicaragua, restricted by Peters, Checkl. Birds World, vol. 1, 1931, p. 13.) 



Characters. — Crown sooty black, usually with a few very small 

 spots or narrow bars of chestnut, particularly toward the nape; 

 averaging darker on the dorsal surface than the other races found 

 in Panama, 



Measurements. — Males (7 specimens from Costa Rica and Bocas 

 del Toro), wing 222-244 (233.3), culmen from base 33.3-37.1 (34,9), 

 tarsus 67.4-74.2 (70.0), middle toe with claw (5 specimens) 36.4-39.4 

 (37.6) mm. 



Females (8 specimens from Costa Rica and Bocas del Toro), 

 wing 224-240 (233.9), culmen from base 32.0-40.0 (36,4), tarsus 

 71.0-75.8 (72.7), middle toe with claw (7 specimens) 36.0-42.4 

 (39.3) mm. 



Resident in the Tropical and lower Subtropical Zones. From the 

 Province of Bocas del Toro (Changuinola, Almirante, Boquete Trail) 

 eastward on the Caribbean slope across northern Veraguas and west- 

 ern Colon, intergrading with T. m. saturatus in the valley of the Rio 

 Indio in the Caribbean section of Code (El Uracillo) and in Colon. 

 On the Caribbean slope it extends northward through Costa Rica to 

 northern Nicaragua. 



It seems certain that birds of this race range into the lower Sub- 

 tropical Zone in the mountains. There is one skin in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology taken at about 600 meters on the Boquete 

 trail back of Laguna de Chiriqui ; and another, a typical specimen, in 

 the British Museum (Natural History), received from Enrique 

 Arce, is labeled "Veraguas" without other information as to locality. 

 It is probable that the latter was taken near the Continental Divide, 

 presumably on the Caribbean side. 



Charles O. Handley, Jr., recorded a nest near Almirante, January 

 23, 1960, with 5 fresh eggs, and another February 13 in which in- 

 cubation was well advanced. Huber (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil- 

 adelphia, 1932, p 206) reported the dimension of 3 eggs found April 

 5, 1922, in northeastern Nicaragua, as follows: 59.2x46.4, 61 .7 X 

 48.8, and 63.2x49.7 mm. 



TINAMTJS MAJOR CASTANEICEPS Salvadori 



Tinamus castaneiceps Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 27, after Sept. 6, 

 1895, p. 507, pi. 6. (Southern slope of the Volcan de Chiriquf, Panama.) 



