FAMILY GALBULIDAE 465 



(80.8), tail 89.5-100.0 (95.1), oilmen from base 40.0-54.6 (47.9), 

 tarsus 11.0-13.2 (12.2) mm. 



Females (10 from western Colombia and Ecuador), wing 77.5- 

 83.3 (80.8), tail 85.3-96.8 (90.1), culmen from base 39.3-50.0 (45.1, 

 average of 9), tarsus 11.7-13.4 (12.5) mm. 



JACAMEROPS AUREA PENARDI: Bangs and Barbour: Great 

 Jacamar, Barranquero Grande 



Figure 56 



Jacamerops aurea penardi Bangs and Barbour, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 65, 

 September 1922, p. 200. (Carrillo, Costa Rica.) 



Largest of its family in Panama ; with broad, flattened bill ; metallic 

 blue to golden green above and on throat ; breast and abdomen rufous. 



Description. — Length 275-295 mm. Bill broad, flattened and slightly 

 decurved ; nostril rounded ; tarsus feathered for upper half or more. 

 Adult male, crown shining metallic green, the forehead and forecrown 

 often bright bluish green ; rest of upper surface, including wing 

 coverts, secondaries and central rectrices brilliant metallic green, with 

 the upper back varied to golden or copper-green ; outer rectrices dark 

 blue or violet-blue ; primaries black, with a sheen of blue ; chin dull 

 black; upper throat and sides of neck shining metallic green; center 

 of foreneck white; rest of under surface rufous to tawny; under wing 

 coverts cinnamon-buff. 



Adult female similar, but somewhat paler rufous below, with the 

 foreneck entirely rufous, like the rest of the under surface (but 

 usually with concealed bases of the feathers white) . 



Male and female, collected at El Llano, Panama, February 9, 1962, 

 had the iris chestnut-brown; bare skin of lores, edge of eyelids, and 

 around eye dusky neutral gray; bill black; inside of mouth and center 

 of base of tongue dull honey yellow ; tip of tongue fuscous ; bare 

 lower end of tarsus and toes dull green ; claws black. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Panama and Cordoba, northwest- 

 ern Colombia), wing 104.5-114.0 (110.8), tail 124.7-135.5 (130.5), 

 culmen from base 49.4-54.6 (51.4), tarsus 13.4-15.0 (14.3) mm. 



Females (10 from Panama, and Choco, Antioquia, and Cordoba, 

 northwestern Colombia), wing 104.6-114.1 (111.1), tail 117.6-127.0 

 (122.3), culmen from base 45.5-50.6 (48.0), tarsus 13.1-14.6 (14.0) 

 mm. 



Resident. Uncommon in forested areas of the Tropical Zone. On 

 the Pacific slope from the Rio Pacora in eastern Province of Panama 

 eastward through Darien; to 550 meters on Cerro Pirre, and 575 



