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Rowley (Proc. West. Found. Vert. Zool, vol. 1, no. 3, 1966, p. 125) 

 collected a female with an egg (broken) in the oviduct. The "base 

 color was whitish with a series of reddish-brown dots on the larger 

 end." 



Schonwetter (Handb. Ool. pt. 9, 1964, p. 576) lists 2 additional 

 records of interest : An early one of an egg collected in Brazil by Dra. 

 Emilia Snethlage from the nest of a flycatcher (Myiozetetes sp.) that 

 was attributed at the time to Tapera, and an unusual egg in a set of 

 Thamnophilus doliatus intermedins from San Pedro, Honduras, in 

 his collection that he attributed to Dromococcyx. These were tentative 

 identifications, the first cited correctly by Makatch (Brutparasitismus 

 der Vogelwelt, 1955, p. 198), the second listed incorrectly as positive 

 by this author. 



NEOMORPHUS GEOFFROYI SALVINI P. L. Sclater: 

 Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo, Hormiguero Montanes 



Figure 19 



Neomorphns salvini P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, May 1866, p. 60, 

 pi. 5. (Veragua = Santiago, Veraguas, Panama.) 



A long-tailed, large-billed, terrestrial cuckoo of large size, found 

 in forests. 



Description. — Length 475-520 mm. A prominent crest. Adult (sexes 

 alike), crown cinnamon-brown, darker at center; crest feathers bluish 

 or greenish black; hindneck, upper back, and wing coverts olive, 

 changing to purplish posteriorly, with a bronze sheen throughout; 

 rump and upper tail coverts purplish brown with a bronze sheen ; tail 

 dark olive-green to dull purple, also with a sheen of bronze ; secondar- 

 ies dark metallic green ; primaries black, with a bluish or greenish 

 sheen on outer webs ; feathers on side of head, behind the eye, black 

 margined with brown ; malar region, extending below eye, cinnamon- 

 brown ; basal color of lower surface light gray, washed with brown, 

 in some individuals heavily brown; feathers of foreneck and upper 

 breast tipped with grayish white to produce narrow bars ; a narrow, 

 somewhat broken band of black across the breast; lower breast and 

 abdomen in some individuals cinnamon-brown ; flanks, tibia, and under 

 tail coverts rufescent brown; under wing coverts grayish brown; 

 under surface of flight feathers and tail black. 



A male taken on Cerro Tacarcuna, Darien, February 25, 1964, had 

 the iris dark reddish brown; bill pale greenish neutral gray, becom- 

 ing neutral gray on the base of the maxilla, beneath the nostril, and 

 on the mandibular rami ; crus light blue ; tarsus pale neutral gray, with 



