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aries, and outer tail feathers dusky gray; malar region and upper 

 f oreneck white ; ear coverts pale gray ; a black streak along the lower 

 side of the head; lower f oreneck and upper breast gray, with a green- 

 ish wash on the adjacent sides ; lower breast paler gray ; abdomen 

 very pale buffy white; sides and flanks grayish brown; under tail 

 coverts white ; under wing coverts dull brown. 



Juvenile, above dark olive, margined and barred with pale brown 

 and dusky ; f oreneck and breast dusky, barred with buffy brown. 



A male, taken on Cerro Mali, Darien, February 21, 1964, had the 

 iris orange-brown ; thickened eyelid dull red ; mark on bare skin in 

 front of eye, and a narrow line across base of lower eyelid dull 

 pinkish red ; rest of bare skin dull neutral gray; edge of maxilla and 

 of mandible from cere to gape dull red ; cere and rest of maxilla 

 purplish black; gonys to tip of mandible horn color; rest of mandible 

 dull dark neutral gray ; tarsus and toes dark red ; claws fuscous-brown. 



Measurements. — Males (8 from Panama and Costa Rica), wing 

 136.0-144.7 (140.3), tail 72.5-77.5 (74.2), culmen 14.5-14.6 (14.5, 

 average of 3), tarsus 39.0-43.0 (41.2) mm. 



Females (5 from Panama and Costa Rica), wing 137.0-142.4 

 (139.4), tail 70.0-78.8 (74.3), culmen 14.3-14.6 (14.5, average of 3), 

 tarsus 40.0-44.0 (41.7) mm. 



Resident. Rare in the upper Tropical and Subtropical Zone forests 

 on the Caribbean slope of Bocas del Toro (Rio Changuena, Boquete 

 trail) ; eastern Colon (Cerro Bruja, 600 meters) ; mountains of Vera- 

 guas (above Santa Fe and Calobre) ; Western Province of Panama 

 (Cerro Campana, 900 meters) ; Darien (Pucro, Cerro Mali, Cerro 

 Tacarcuna to 1,450 meters) . 



This is a species of dense, humid forests that has been rarely seen 

 by naturalists. The older records come from the western part of the 

 Republic, and from Costa Rica. There is a recent specimen in the 

 U.S. National Museum, a male, taken by collectors of the Gorgas 

 Memorial Laboratory, September 20, 1961, on the Rio Changuena in 

 Bocas del Toro. Goldman, on June 8, 1911, at 600 meters elevation 

 on Cerro Bruja, secured an immature female, not quite grown, as it 

 walked with nodding head on the ground in the heavy forest. 



On Cerro Mali Dr. Pedro Galindo collected a female, May 23, 1963, 

 and later, in February 1964, I secured 3 more here, in addition to 

 recording them on Cerro Tacarcuna, and also at Pucro, at the base 

 of the mountains. Like other quail-doves they were found on the 

 forest floor. When approached they walked quietly away, without 

 haste, but under shelter of the ground cover so that it was difficult to 



