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of Code. I have, therefore, designated this as the restricted type 

 locality. 



Nelson described a race suboles from a single specimen taken by 

 Goldman at Cana on the slopes of Cerro Pirre, Darien. This proves 

 not valid when compared with the more extensive material from 

 eastern Panama now available. 



BARYPHTHENGUS MARTII SEMIRUFUS Sclater: Rufous 

 Motmot, Pajaro-raqueta Acanelado 



Figure 53 



Momotus semirufus P. L. Sclater, Rev. et Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 5, November 

 1853, p. 489. ("Santa Martha, in Nova Granada" = Middle Magdalena Valley, 

 Colombia.) 



Baryphthengus martii costariccnsis Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 56, 

 June 16, 1943, p. 48. (Cuabre, Rio Sixaola, Costa Rica.) 



Large; head and anterior underparts rufous-cinnamon; a broad 

 black band on side of head ; spot on lower foreneck plain black. 



Description. — Length 420 to 470 mm. ; ten rectrices. Adult (sexes 

 alike), crown and hindneck cinnamon-rufous; back, wing coverts and 

 outer webs of secondaries dark green ; alula and primary coverts 

 bluish green ; outer webs of primaries greenish blue, changing to 

 violet-blue on the outermost ; inner webs of primaries and secondaries 

 dull black; upper tail coverts greenish blue; tail bluish green, changing 

 distally to greenish blue, with the two central rectrices tipped with 

 black ; shafts of all tail feathers black ; a broad black band on the 

 side of the head from the lores through the eye to the auricular 

 region ; feathers in the latter area elongated ; throat, foreneck and 

 breast tawny-ochraceous, deepening to cinnamon-rufous on sides 

 and abdomen; a small, slightly elongated tuft of black feathers in 

 center of lower foreneck ; flanks, tibia, lower abdomen, and under 

 tail coverts light bluish green ; under wing coverts dull verdigris- 

 green. 



Juvenile, in general like adult, but with feathers of foreneck and 

 upper breast paler, duller brown, indistinctly spotted on the outer 

 webs with cinnamon-buff; central pair of rectrices uniform in width 

 without the spatulate tip. 



An adult male taken on Cerro Campana, Panama, March 12, 1951, 

 had the iris dark brown ; bill black ; tarsus and toes dark neutral 

 gray; claws black. In another of the same sex, collected near Armila, 

 San Bias, March 4, 1963, the iris and bill were like the first, but the 



