474 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 2 



Immature, brownish black above, with greater wing coverts and 

 inner secondaries tipped with white ; outer rectrices brownish gray, 

 tipped and barred with white. 



According to Jewel, in females taken at Gatun, Canal Zone, the 

 iris was brown, bill black, feet blue-black (Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 70, 1918, p. 258.) 



Measurements. — Males (13 from Panama), wing 66.0-71.5 (67.9), 

 tail 50.0-55.2 (53.1), oilmen from base 21.8-24.9 (23.1), tarsus 13.1- 

 14.7 (13.8) mm. 



Figure 58. — Head of pied puff bird, juancito negro, Notharchus t edits subtectus, 

 to show notched tip of maxilla. 



Females (10 from Panama), wing 66.0-71.8 (69.7), tail 52.4-58.5 

 (53.3), culmen from base 22.7-24.5 (23.4), tarsus 13.0-14.0 (13.3) 

 mm. 



Resident. Found locally in the forested lowlands in Bocas del 

 Toro, and from the Chagres Valley (including the Canal Zone) east- 

 ward to the Colombian boundary; on the Pacific slope from the Rio 

 Maje, eastern Province of Panama, east through Darien. It is 

 probable that the bird will be found in Caribbean forests in northern 

 Veraguas, Code, and western Colon. 



This puffbird, described in 1860 from northwestern Ecuador, from 

 a specimen collected by Fraser, was found the following year by 

 McLeannan on the Atlantic slope of Panama along the line of the 

 Panama Railway. Specimens were sent to Lawrence, and came later 



