BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 371 



bright amber brown, paling on anterior two-thirds of abdomen to between 

 cinnamon-rufous and hght bright hazel; flanks, thighs, lower abdomen, 

 and under tail coverts dull cinnamon-brown barred with fuscous to black- 

 ish, the under tail coverts heavily mottled and flecked with the blackish 

 as well; outer lesser under wing coverts like the corresponding upper 

 ones; greater inner under wing coverts uniform clove brown; iris dark 

 brown; bill black; tarsus dark slate; toes similar. 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but with the nape and inter- 

 scapulars somewhat more rufescent — chestnut-brown (instead of mummy 

 brown), and the cheeks, auriculars, chin, and throat mummy brown in- 

 stead of black. 



Juvenal nude. — Above similar to the adult female but with conspicu- 

 ous buffy-white shafts on the posterior interscapulars, the scapulars, and 

 the greater upper wing coverts ; the sides of the head with no bare space ; 

 the lores, a broad stripe through the eye to the nape, a broad malar stripe, 

 the chin, and throat cinnamon-buff to pale tawny-olive, the auriculars 

 black; breast, sides, and abdomen as in adult but all the feathers with 

 subterminal spots or broken bars of black. 



Natal down. — Forehead and a broad band extending back over the 

 crown, occiput, nape, and spinal tract to the tail Mikado brown, becom- 

 ing somewhat darker posteriorly ; this is bordered by a broad supraocular 

 band of pinkish buff to light ochraceous-buff ; lores, circumocular area, 

 and auriculars dusky — mummy brown flecked with ochraceous-buff ; wings 

 and a laterodorsal line to thighs like the spinal tract — dark Mikado brown, 

 rest of upperparts pale avellaneous to pale wood brown ; underparts gray- 

 ish avellaneous washed with dull hazel, especially on sides, flanks, and 

 thighs ; to a lesser extent on the breast. 



Adult male.— Wing 138.5-147.5 (142.1) ; tail 53-61.5 (56.7) ; culmen 

 from base 19.4-21.3 (20.2) ; tarsus 42.5-47.1 (44.7) ; middle toe without 

 claw 32.6-38.8 (36.4 mm.).«i 



Adult female. — Wing 136; tail 54; culmen from base 18.5 ; tarsus 41.9; 

 middle toe without claw 33.8 mm. (1 specimen). 



Range. — Resident in tropical forests of Nicaragua, south to northern 

 and eastern Costa Rica (Volcan Miravalles, Cerro Santa Maria, Guana- 

 caste, Villa Quesada, Alajuela, Jimenez, Bonilla, Talamanca, etc.). 



Type locality. — Tucurrique, Costa Rica. 



Odontophorus melanotis Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864 (1865), 586 

 (Tucurrique, Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman) ; Ibis, 1872, 323 (Chontales, 

 Nicaragua).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, ix, 1868, 140 

 (Tucurrique). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Om., 1869, 374 (Costa Rica). — Zeled6n, 

 Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 128 (Jimenez, Costa Rica) .—Richmond, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 524 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua) .—OGn,viE- 

 Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 43S, part (Chontales, Nicaragua; 



' Seven specimens from Costa Rica. 



