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CENTURUS RUBRICAPILLUS SUBFUSCULUS subsp. nov. 
Characters.—Similar to Centurus rubricapillus rubricapillus Ca- 
banis,*® but decidedly darker throughout; blacker above, with the 
white bars reduced in width, and the black bars correspondingly 
broader ; under surface and side of head definitely darker, more gray- 
ish olive; crown in male deeper red; white markings on rectrices 
somewhat reduced in extent. 
Description—Type, U.S.N.M. No. 460784, male, Isla Coiba, 
Panama, collected Jan. 18, 1956, by A. Wetmore (orig, No. 20311): 
Forehead olive-buff, with the plumes behind the nostrils apricot buff, 
fading immediately into the background color of the forehead ; crown 
and hindneck slightly darker than spectrum red; back black, barred 
narrowly with white, the light bars being one-third or less the width 
of the black ones; remiges dull black, the secondaries and inner 
primaries notched and barred rather narrowly but prominently with 
white; three outermost primaries dull black, with the outer webs 
unmarked ; rump and upper tail coverts white, with scattered freck- 
ling and spotting of dull black; rectrices black, the central pair barred 
on the inner webs, and lined broadly on the outer webs, with white ; 
side of head grayish olive; throat citrine-drab, changing to light 
brownish olive, with an overwash of isabella color, on foreneck, this 
color continuing over breast and sides; center of abdomen dull nopal 
red, merging at the sides into isabella color which covers the rest of 
the abdomen ; under tail coverts and lower part of flanks dull white, 
barred narrowly with dark neutral gray; under wing coverts white, 
barred irregularly with dark neutral gray; inner surface of remiges 
dark neutral gray, barred rather broadly with white. Bill dull black; 
tarsus and toes blackish slate (from dried skin). 
Measurements.—Males (11 specimens), wing 101.8-108.5 (105.0), 
tail 48.7-55.9 (52.0), culmen from base 23.1-27.3 (25.2), tarsus 17.8- 
20.2 (18.9) mm. Females (4 specimens), wing 99.3-101.8 (100.4), 
tail 49.2-50.5 (49.4), culmen from base 22.0-23.4 (22.9), tarsus 17.5- 
18.2 (17.7) mm. 
Type, male, wing 103.5, tail 50.0, culmen from base 26.8, tarsus 
19.0 mm. 
Range.—Isla Coiba and Isla Rancheria, off the Pacific coast of 
Veraguas, Panama. 
Remarks.—The bird in habits and in actions is the counterpart of 
Centurus rubricapillus rubricapillus of the adjacent mainland. A 
18 Centurus rubricapillus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., vol. 10, 1862, p. 328. (Bar- 
ranquilla, Atlantico, Colombia.) 
