FAMILY GALBULIDAE 457 



ondaries tipped lightly with white or buff ; throat and upper f oreneck 

 white, with a faint-to-heavy wash of buff or cinnamon-buff; breast, 

 sides, tibia, and under tail coverts black with a sheen of iridescent 

 green, the under tail coverts varying in some to cinnamon mixed 

 with greenish black ; abdomen cinnamon ; under wing coverts dull 

 black with a greenish sheen, spotted with cinnamon ; a narrow light 

 bar, varying from dull white to cinnamon across base of primaries. 

 Birds in slightly worn plumage have the greenish sheen of the 

 upper surface varied in part to bluish purple. 



Juvenile, like adult but bill shorter ; secondaries edged lightly 

 with cinnamon-buff; lower back, crown, scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail coverts tipped narrowly with pale buff to cinnamon-buff ; sides of 

 throat tipped with cinnamon. The bill attains its maximum length 

 slowly after the bird otherwise appears fully grown. 



An adult male, collected at Pucro, Darien, January 30, 1964, had 

 the iris bright red ; bill black ; tarsus and toes fuscous-black ; claws 

 black. 



An adult female, taken at the same place, February 7, had the 

 iris dark reddish brown. In a fully grown juvenile female the iris 

 was gray. These two otherwise were like the adult male. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Darien and northwestern Colom- 

 bia), wing 70.8-73.2 (71.9), tail 52.9-57.8 (54.4), oilmen from base 

 46.4-49.4 (48.3, average of 8), tarsus 9.3-10.4 (9.9) mm. 



Females (10 from Darien and northwestern Colombia), wing 

 70.8-74.0 (72.1), tail 52.2-56.4 (54.1), culmen from base 45.1-49.4 

 (47.2, average of 9), tarsus 9.2-10.1 (9.6) mm. 



Resident. Local, rare, in the Tropical Zone of eastern Darien 

 on the Rio Jesucito, and in the valley of the Rio Tuira (El Real, 

 Tapalisa, Pucro, Boca de Paya, Cana) . 



The first record of this species for Panama was 1 collected on 

 June 3, 1908, at Cana by R. S. Williams of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, who presented the bird to the U. S. National Museum. 

 Subsequently, E. A. Goldman secured others there on February 20 

 and March 12, 1912, and I collected a male in the same general 

 area but somewhat lower down on February 6, 1961. Others were 

 obtained by W. B. Richardson in 1915 at El Real and Tapalisa. I 

 found them on the Rio Pucro in 1964, and on the Rio Tuira near 

 Boca de Paya in 1959. 



In my few observations of this small jacamar I have seen them 

 near streams where they rested in the sun in early morning in the 

 top of small shrubs along the bank, or in the open branches of 



