NO. 3 NEW BIRDS FROM PANAMA AND VICINITY NELSON 5 



Distribution. — Known from Marraganti and Boca de Cupe, eastern 

 Panama. 



Subspecific characters. — Most like .1/. conexus from the Canal 

 Zone but much darker ; back dark olive green with a darker and 

 more chestnut-rufous suffusion; outside of wings darker green; 

 under parts also much darker and more chestnut, especially on 

 abdomen. 



Measurements of type. — Wing, 123; tail, 230; culmen, 37; tarsus, 

 28.5. 



Remarks. — M. conexus and the present subspecies are much 

 nearer to M. subritfesceus than to lessoni. In fact it is almost cer- 

 tain that when specimens from intermediate localities are collected 

 they will show that conexus and reconditus are subspecies of sub- 

 rufescens. The fact that conexus from the Canal Zone retains cer- 

 tain distinctions of color pattern characteristic of subrufescens with 

 no sign of intergradation toward lessoni is a strong indication of the 

 specific distinction of these birds. In M. lessoni the black ear patch 

 is narrowly edged above and below by the same color as that on the 

 forehead while in subrufescens, conexus and reconditus this ear 

 patch is bordered above by the same color as that of the forehead and 

 below by a much deeper and richer blue like that of the nape ; these 

 three forms also agree in having the abdomen clearer rufous than 

 the neck and breast which are distinctly greenish ; in lessoni the 

 reverse of this distribution of color exists and the breast is more 

 rufous and less greenish than the abdomen. M. c. reconditus is 

 based on two specimens, the type and one other from Boca de Cupe in 

 the same district. 



ELECTRON PLATYRHYNCHUS SUBOLES, subsp. nov. 



Darien Motmot 



Type. — Xo. 232536, adult male, U. S. National Museum, Bio- 

 logical Survey Collection, from Cana (at 2,000 feet altitude), eastern 

 Panama; collected March 9, 1912, by E. A. Goldman (collector's 

 number 15336). 



Distribution. — Known from type locality only. 



Subspecific characters. — Size of E. p. minor but bill longer and nar- 

 rower; rufous on head, neck and breast lighter and more buffy ; 

 green on back clearer and brighter than in either platyrliynchus or 

 minor and upper side of tail bluish; abdomen blue. 



Description of type — Top of head and neck rnsty cinnamon- 

 rufous paler than in minor; under side of neck and fore breast a 

 paler and duller shade of same with an overlying tinge of green ; 



