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tail fuscous-black, the feathers of the hindneck barred with ochraceous- 

 tawny, the dark middorsal band laterally bordered with a line of light 

 orange-buff, laterad of which is another blackish area; wings fuscous- 

 blackish barred with ochraceous-tawny ; chin and upper throat white 

 very slightly suffused with cartridge buff ; lower throat and breast bright 

 cinnamon-brown, paling on lower breast and upper abdomen to light 

 ochraceous-buff ; middle of abdomen like the chin; sides, flanks, thighs, 

 and vent ochraceous-buff mottled with dusky. 



Adult male.— Wing 194-216 (204.5) ; tail 201-236 (218.9) ; exposed 

 culmen 24-27 (25.3) ; tarsus 59-67 (65) ; middle toe without claw 47-53 

 (50.2 mm.).** 



Adult female.— Wing 184-208 (193.7) ; tail 190-232 (206.3) ; exposed 

 culmen 22-26 (23.6) ; tarsus 54-61 (60) ; middle toe without claw 42-46 

 (44.1 mm.).*5 



Range. — Resident from eastern Nicaragua (Chontales; Rio Grande; 

 Muy Muy ; Las Canas ; Los Sabalos ; and Rio Escondido) ; south through 

 Costa Rica (Atlanta ; Buenos Aires ; Cariblanco de Sarapiqui ; Cartago ; 

 Cuabre; Guacimo; Guapiles; Guayabo; Jimenez; Juan Vinas; La Palma 

 de San Jose ; Pozo Azul de Pirris ; San Jose ; Sibueno ; Talamanca ; Tur- 

 rialba; Volcan de Irazii; and Volcan de Miravalles) ; to Panama, except 

 the coastal strip of Veraguas, and stopping short of the Caribbean slope of 

 Darien (Boqueron, Chiriqui; Canal Zone; Castillo; Chapignana; Cric- 

 amola ; Cordillera de Tole ; Divala ; Gatun ; Guabo ; Lion Hill ; Paraiso ; 

 Pearl Islands — San Miguel, San Pedro, and Pedro Gonzalez Islands in 

 the Bay of Panama; and Santiago). 



Type locality.- — "North-west coast of America" error=Pearl Islands? 

 Designated by Aldrich, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., vii, 1937, 

 55, as San Miguel, Pearl Islands, Bay of Panama. 



Ortalida poliocephala (not Penelope poliocephala Wagler) Laweence, Ann. Lye. 

 Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1861', 333 (Lion Hill, Panama) ; ix, 1868, 139 (San 

 Jose, Turrialba, and La Palma de San Jose, Costa Rica) . — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 371 (Panama; crit.). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1867, 161 (Santiago and Cordillera de Tole, Veraguas, w. Panama; 

 crit.) ; Ibis, 1869, 318 (Costa Rica; crit.). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 

 372 (Costa Rica). 



Ortalida cinereiceps Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 12 ("north- 

 west coast of America" =: Panama; coll. Brit. Mus.). — Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 318 

 (Panama) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 217 (Castillo, Veraguas, w. Pan- 

 ama). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 540 (localities in 

 Panama; Costa Rica; monogr.), 543. — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 

 1884,408 (Los Sabalos, Nicaragua). 



[Ortalida] cinereiceps Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 252, No. 9507 (Costa Rica; Pan- 

 ama). — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137 (Costa Rica; 

 Panama) . 



" Fourteen specimens from Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. 

 " Seven specimens from Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. 



