480 BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 2 



Santander, and through western Colombia to western Ecuador. Two 

 of the five geographic races now recognized are found in Panama. 

 This is the most widely distributed species of its family in the 

 Republic, being found wherever there is forest, except in the higher 

 mountains. 



Figure 60. — White-whiskered puffbird, bobito de bigote, Malacoptila panamensis. 



MALACOPTILA PANAMENSIS PANAMENSIS Lafresnaye 



Malacoptila Panamensis Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., vol. 10, March (April) 1847, 

 p. 79. (Panama.) 



Characters. — Male deeper rufous, with crown nearly concolor with 

 back ; female with foreneck deeper buff ; both sexes more heavily 

 streaked on lower surface. 



A male from Armila, San Bias, February 23, 1963, had the iris red ; 

 base of oilmen greenish neutral gray, shading to neutral gray around 

 and behind the nostril, and to black along the cutting edge ; the entire 

 front part of the maxilla and tip of mandible also black; rest of 

 mandible light yellowish green ; tarsus and toes dark grayish green ; 



