38 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA PART 2 



tail feathers like back; others shading to slate on outer pair, black 

 toward the ends, tipped broadly with white ; throat white to pinkish 

 white ; neck and upper breast grayish vinaceous, pinker on the lower 

 breast and sides, shading to white on abdomen and under tail coverts ; 

 axillars, under wing coverts, and under surface of flight feathers dull 

 cinnamon-rufous. 



Female, like the male, but usually somewhat duller colored. 



Immature, decidedly duller colored, with chest grayish brown, and 

 without metallic sheen on the hindneck ; feathers of back, wings, and 

 breast with narrow tips of light brown. 



In an adult male taken at El Potrero, Code, March 7, 1962, the 

 iris was orange-yellow ; bare skin around eye and lores grayish blue ; 



Figure 6. — White-fronted dove, Paloma rabiblanca, Leptotila verreauxi 

 verreauxi. 



bill black ; tarsus and toes dull red ; claws black. In other adults ex- 

 amined the iris was bright orange. In birds not in breeding condition 

 it may be brownish orange, with the bare skin on the side of the head 

 and the cere dark gray, and the tarsus and toes lighter red. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Panama) wing 135.2-146.7 

 (139.5), tail 91.5-103.4 (97.3), culmen 15.5-17.7 (16.7), tarsus 28.5- 



31.3 (29.8) mm. 



Females (9 from Panama), wing 133.0-142.0 (137.7), culmen 15.7- 



17.4 (16.3), tarsus 27.0-31.2 (29.H mm 



Resident. Abundant through the Pacific lowlands from the Costa 

 Rican boundary east to the eastern limits of the Province of Panama 

 (Maje, El Llano) ; rare in Darien (El Real). On the Caribbean side, 

 from the Rio Indio in western Colon (El Uracillo, Chilar), through 

 the Chagres Valley inland to the Rio Boqueron and the Rio Pequeni, 

 and in eastern Colon (Portobelo) to western San Bias (Mandinga). 

 At present, in western Chiriqui found to 1,400 meters above El Vol- 



