FAMILY BUCCONIDAE 479 



color phase, is labeled "Bogota, Williams, 1847." The author in the 

 original description listed this as "Nova Granada." Chapman (Bull. 

 Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., vol. 36, 1917, p. 341) appropriately designated 

 the Magdalena Valley, Colombia, as the restricted type locality. 



The name Bucco fulvldus of Salvin and Godman cited above, based 

 on their specimen labeled "Veragua (Arce)," is merely the dark 

 phase of this species. 



To the south the barred puffbird ranges across northern Colombia 

 to the middle Magdalena Valley. On the west it extends south to 

 Ecuador. 



MALACOPTILA PANAMENSIS Lafresnaye: White-whiskered 

 Puffbird, Bobito de Bigote 



Figure 60 



Medium size, dark coloration ; spotted finely above, streaked rather 

 heavily below ; with white, elongated feathers on base of mandible. 



Description. — Length 180-200 mm., a short, rounded bushy crest ; 

 two slightly differing color phases, one rufescent, one grayer, the 

 latter in some less heavily streaked. Adult male, above brown to 

 chestnut-brown, with feathers tipped with spots of buff to tawny 

 except on rump, this marking changing to narrow streaks on fore- 

 crown; some with feathers of forehead basally white; tail chestnut- 

 brown ; primaries and secondaries grayish brown, edged with rusty 

 brown; space around eye tawny; side of head and neck brown, 

 streaked with tawny ; elongated, pointed feathers on base of mandible 

 white, sometimes mixed with tawny; foreneck and upper breast 

 tawny to tawny-buff; rest of under surface buffy white, with feathers 

 on breast and sides edged with dusky, brown, or tawny, forming 

 prominent streaks ; abdomen buffy white ; under tail coverts buff ; 

 inner webs of basal half of primaries ochraceous-buff ; under wing 

 coverts and edge of wing tawny. 



Adult female, similar to male but less rufescent ; above olive to 

 brown, grayer on crown ; throat, breast, and under tail coverts buff 

 to cinnamon-buff; abdomen white ; basal area of inner webs of under 

 surface of primaries and under wing coverts paler. 



Juvenile, more heavily streaked on under surface of body. 



This species of puffbird is widely distributed in the tropical low- 

 lands of Central America, from Tabasco and Chiapas in southern 

 Mexico through Central America and the Isthmus of Panama to 

 northwestern South America, where it ranges through northern 

 Colombia east to the eastern edge of the middle Magdalena Valley in 



