196 BUCCONIDiE. 



4. Malacoptila panamensis. 



Malacoptila panamensis, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1847, p. 79 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 



1855, p. 196, 1860, p. 297 ; id. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, xiii. p. 478 ; 



id. Si/n. Bucc. p. 18 ; id. Cat. A. B.^. 273 ; id. Monogr. Jac. and 



Puff-bds. p. 119, pi. xl. ; Cass. Proc. Ac. Philad. 1860, p. 134 ; 



Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 134 ; Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, 



p. 363, 1879, p. 536; iid. Nomencl. p. 106; Sah. P. Z. S. 1870, 



p. 201 ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 333 ; Boiic. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 47 ; 



Berl. et Tacz. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 68 (Ecuador). 

 Bucco panamensis, Gray et Mitch. Gen. B. iii. App. p. 4. 

 Capito panamensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 146. 

 Monasa mystacalis, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1850, p. 215, t. 3. 

 Malacoptila mystacalis, Scl. Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 2, xiii. p. 477 ; id. 



Stjn. Bucc. p. 18 ; id. P. Z. S. 1855, pp. 136, 196 ; id. Cat. A. B. 



p. 273 ; Cah. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 138 ; Scl. et Salv. Nomencl. 



p. 106 ; iid. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 237 ; Ba-l. J. f. O. 1884, p. 315 



(Bucaramanga). 

 Malacoptila aspersa, Scl. P. Z. S. 1853, p. 123 ; id. Ann. Nat. Hist. 



ser. 2, xiii. p. 477 ; id. Syn. Bucc. p. 17 ; id. P. Z. S. 1855, pp. 136, 



196 ; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 137. 

 Ciiaunoruia panamensis, Bp. Consp. Vol. Zyy. p. 13. 

 Malacoptila poliopis, Scl. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 86, pi. viii. ; id. Cat. A. B. 



p. 273 ; Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 136. 

 Malacoptila sequatorialis, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 135. 

 Malacoptila costaricensis. Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iv. p. 135. 

 Malacoptila blacica. Cab. et Hein. Mtts. Hein. iv. p. 137. 

 Malacoptila inornata, Scl. et Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, p. 363. 

 Malacoptila panamensis poliopsis, Berl. et Tacz. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 572 



(W. Ecuador). 



Above brown, washed more or less with ferruginous, and spotted 

 on the back and wings with pale fulvous shaft-spots; lores and rictal 

 plumes partly white ; throat and neck ferruginous ; belly ashy 

 brown, on the upper part more or less flammulatcd with white ; 

 flanks and crissum washed with fern;ginous ; bill horn-colour, 

 yellowish at the base ; feet brown : whole length 7 inches, wing 3'2, 

 tail 3, bill from gape 1-2. Female. Paler and more greyish above : 

 beneath, breast much lighter. 



Rab. Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and 

 Peru. 



This, as shown in my Monograph, is, according to the view that 

 I take, a very variable species. It may be possible to recognize four 

 subspecies ; but I doubt whether the specimens could be always dis- 

 criminated without a previous knowledge of their localities. 



a. Var. costaricensis. 



a. c? ad. sli. Costa Rica {Carnfiiot). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. 2 ad. sk. Costa Eica (Carmiol). Sclater Coll. 



c. d. c? ? ad. : e, Tucm'riqui, Costa Rica (Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. Jr. sk 



g. 2 ad. sk. Dota, Costa Rica {Carmiol). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



h. $ ad. sk. Peje, Costa Rica {Carmiol). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



