BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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yellowish white broadly barred with black, the bars more or less 

 V-shaped on under tail-coverts; under wing-coverts white, rather 

 narrowly barred with blackish; inner webs of remiges dull slate color 

 or dusky, the greater part of secondaries and proximal portion of 

 primaries with broad transverse spots of white; bill slate-black 

 feet dusky (olive-greenish in life); length (skins), 176-198 (186) 

 wing, 116.5-125 (120); tail, 53-61.5 (57); culmen, 24-28 (26.3) 

 tarsus, 20-21 (20.5); outer anterior toe, 17-19.5 (18.3).» 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but pileum without any 

 red, the anterior portion of crown duU white, like forehead, passing 

 into light smoke gray or drab gray on occiput, and nape usually 

 lighter yellow (chrome yellow, more rarely cadmium yellow) ; length 

 (skins), 170-190 (179); wing, 112-125.5 (117.8); tail, 50-60.5 (54.9); 

 culmen, 22-26 (23.7); tarsus, 19-21 (19.6); outer anterior toe, 

 16.5-19 (17.6). » 



Young maZe.— Similar to the adult male, but nape paler and duller 

 yellow, prefrontal region dull pale yellow or dull whitish, bars on 

 back, etc., less sharply defined, general color of under parts duller, 

 chest (usually, at least) more or less streaked or flecked with dusky, 

 and yellow of abdomen duller and more restricted. 



Costa Rica (San Jos6; Cartago; Grecia; San Mateo; San Pedro; 

 Santo Domingo de San Mateo; Pigres; La Palma de Nicoya; Punta 

 Arenas; Ten6rio; Bols6n; Cerro Santa Maria; Volcan de MiravaUes; 

 Bebedero; Alajuela; Escazd; OrosI; CarrUlo; Gufipiles; Guayabdl; 

 Guayabo; Bomlla; Juan Vinas) and Nicaragua (Grenada; Le6n; 

 Tres Granadas; Ometepe; Sucuy^; San Juan del Sur; San Ger6nimo; 

 Volcan de Chinandega; Virgen). 



Centunis hoffmannii Cabanis, Joum. fur Om., x, Sept., 1862, 322 (Costa Rica; 

 coll. Berlin Mm.?).— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Picidse, 1868, 100. 



Centurus hoffmanni Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 131 (San Joa6 and 

 Grecia, Costa Eica). — Prantzius, Joum. fiir Om., 1869, 364 (Costa Rica). — 

 BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 49 (San 3ob6, Cartago, and Punta 

 Arenas, Costa Rica). — Zeled(3n, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 23; Anal. 

 Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 124 (San Jose; Cartago; Alajuela). — Chebrie, 



o Thirteen specimens. 



t> Eighteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Outer 

 ante- 

 rior toe. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Costa Blca . . . 

 Three adult males from Nicaragua. . 



FEMALES. 



Tea adult females b'om Costa Blca.. 

 Eight adult females from Nicaragua 



120.2 

 U9.2 



119 

 116.3 



56.2 

 S9.7 



65.4 

 64.3 



26.1 

 26.7 



23.8 

 23.6 



20.4 

 20.5 



19.6 

 19.6 



18.3 

 18.3 



17.3 

 17.9 



