502 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 3 



A male, collected near the Candelaria Hydrographic Station, on 

 the Rio Pequeni above Madden Lake, March 6, 1961, had the iris 

 mouse brown ; maxilla black ; mandible neutral gray, with a narrow 

 line of dull white along the anterior two-thirds of the cutting edge, 

 and on the distal hook on the maxilla ; tarsus neutral gray tinged with 

 pale brown on the upper half ; toes and claws neutral gray. In another 

 male, at Armila, San Bias, February 22, 1963, the iris was dark 



Figure 44. — Golden-crowned spade-bill, piquichato coronadorado, Platyrinchus 

 coronatus snperciliaris. 



brown ; hook on tip of maxilla, and mandible dull yellowish gray ; rest 

 of maxilla black ; gape honey yellow ; tongue and corneous area of the 

 inside of the mouth surrounding the internal nares honey yellow; rest 

 of inside of mouth, extending on the inner surface of the mandible 

 back to the level of the tip of the tongue, black, with a narrow outer 

 line of dull grayish white ; tarsus and toes neutral gray ; claws neutral 

 gray tipped with dull white. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Bocas del Toro, Pacific slope of 

 Veraguas, Province of Panama, and Darien), wing 53.7-57.4 (55.7), 



