136 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



laterally "with pale buffy yello"wish, the latter "with more or less dis- 

 tinct (sometimes large) mesial streaks or central spots of pale yellow- 

 ish or bufify; tail olive passing into dusky terminally, the two 

 outer de"veloped rectrices on each side sometimes with a median streak 

 of pale cinnamon-rufous, the under surface of lateral rectrices dull 

 light ohve-grayish; a broad subloral and suborbital stripe of dull 

 oUve-wbitish, originating immediately behind nostril, on lower- 

 anterior portion of loral region, this stripe passing into into grayish 

 olive on auricular region; a broad malar stripe, chin and throat dull 

 yellowish, or brownish, white, irregularly streaked, spotted, or flecked 

 "with oUve; chest and lower foreneck olive, broken by guttate streaks 

 (anteriorly) and spots (posteriorly) of pale duU buffy yellowish; rest 

 of under parts pale dull yello"wish (nearly straw yellow) barred "with 

 dusky olive, the under taU-coverts sometimes more buffy and partly 

 immaculate; bill, in dried skins, dusky horn color, paler (sometimes 

 duU whitish) on basal half of mandible; feet dull grayish brown (ia 

 dried skins); length (skms), 167-175 (171); -wing, 106-108.5 (107); 

 tail, 56.5-59 (58); culmen, 21; tarsus, 17-18 (17.3); outer anterior 

 toe, 15-16.5 (15.7).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but pileum duU slaty 

 olive, only the lower occiput and hindneck being red; the malar 

 region similar but rather lighter grayish" olive; length (skins), 

 165-169.5 (167); wing, 106-108.5 (107.5); tail, 55.5-58 (56.7); 

 exposed culmen, 20-21.5 (20.7); tarsus, 17-18.5 (17.7); outer ante- 

 rior toe, 15-16 (15.5).* 



Panama (Lion Hill; Verftgua; Cana; Cerro Brujo). 



Chloronerpes calloptenis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1862, 476 

 (Lion Hill, Panama; coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., 

 Capit. and Picid., 1868, 106.— Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 317 (Veragua; crit.).— 

 Hakgitt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xviii, 1890, 80 (Veragua).— Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 409, pi. 59, fig. 1 ("Veragua; Lion Hill). 



[Chloronerpes] calloptenis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 199, no. 8785. — Shaepe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 205. 



C[raiigasus] callopterus Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 2, 1863, 159. 



Chrysopieus callopterus Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 326. 



Picas calloptenis Sundevau,, Consp. Av. Picin., 1866, 12. 



CHLORONERPES SIMPLEX SIMPLEX Salvin. 

 BXTGASA WOOSFECEES. 



Similar to 0. callopterus but with suborbital and subauricular 

 regions, chin, and throat hght brown, concolor, or nearly so, "with 

 adjacent parts of head. 



Adult male. — ^Pileum (including supercihary region), hindneck, 

 malar region, and more or less of suborbital region, bright, rather 

 dark, poppy red, the feathers dusky grayish or dull slate color 

 beneath surface; upper parts mostly plain yellowish olive-green, or 



a Three specimens from Panama. b Three specimens. 



