FAMILY BUCCONIDAE 483 



America to Tabasco in southern Mexico. The female specimen taken 

 on the Rio Escondido, eastern Nicaragua, September 23, 1892, by 

 C. W. Richmond, on which he based the name fuliginosa (type in the 

 U.S. National Museum) which is very dark on the upper surface and 

 in the streaking below, proves to be unique, others from this area 

 being of the usual coloration of inornata. In accordance with this, 

 Ridgway (U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 50, pt. 6, 1914, p. 392) listed 

 fuliginosa as a synonym of inornata. 



MICROMONACHA LANCEOLATA (Deville) : Lanceolated 

 Monklet, Juancito Rayado 



Bucco lanceolata Deville, Rev. et Mag. Zool., ser. 2, vol. 1, February 1849, p. 56. 

 (Pampa del Sacramento, Mision de Sarayacu, Rio Ucayali, Peru.) 



A small puffbird, with heavily streaked breast, and short tail. 



Description. — Length 130 mm. Tail strongly rounded, short, 

 slightly less than two-thirds length of wing. Adult (sexes alike), 

 above somewhat dull rufous-brown, with very narrow edgings of 

 dull white to cinnamon-buff; crown somewhat more rufous-brown; 

 forehead, lores, and eye-ring white, bordered by a narrow black line 

 across the f orecrown ; rectrices dull brown, all except the central pair 

 with a broad subterminal band of black, and a tip of paler brown; 

 wing feathers dusky; secondaries edged narrowly with cinnamon- 

 buff; outermost primary edged broadly, others very narrowly, with 

 buff; flanks and under tail coverts cinnamon-rufous; side of jaw 

 white, bordered posteriorly by black; rest of under surface white, 

 streaked heavily with black; edge of wing white; under surface of 

 primaries and secondaries white to buffy white ; under wing coverts 

 variegated with dusky and gray, tipped obscurely with cinnamon. 



A female in the British Museum, collected in the Cordillera 

 Macarena, Meta, Colombia, December 14, 1949, by C. C. Doncaster, 

 has the following data on the label: iris black-brown, bill black, 

 feet gray. 



Measurements. — Males (4 from Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru), 

 wing 56.8-61.8 (59.6), tail 37.1-40.5 (38.8), culmen from base 21.4- 

 23.6 (22.4), tarsus 12.4-14.4 (13.4) mm. 



Females (11 from Costa Rica, Veraguas, Colombia, Ecuador, 

 Peru, and Brazil), wing 58.2-64.6 (61.1), tail 39.1-45.8 (41.4), 

 culmen from base 21.7-24.0 (22.4 average of 10), tarsus 11.5-13.7 

 (12.2) mm. 



Resident. Known in Panama from 1 female collected on the Rio 

 Calovevora, Veraguas, September 6, 1926, by Benson and Gaffney. 



