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buffy white, forming a conspicuoiis area which extends farther back 

 laterally (to end of auricular region) than medially; foreneck, chest, 

 sides of breast, and sides plain dull metallic bluish bronze-green; 

 median portion of breast, whole abdomen, hiader flanks, anal region, 

 and shorter under taU-coverts plaia cinnamon; longer under tail- 

 coverts dull bronze-greenish, sometimes narrowly margined with 

 cinnamon; under wing-coverts mostly dark grayish brown or fuscous, 

 faintly glossed with bronze-greenish; xmder surface of remiges slate- 

 dusky with basal portion abruptly dull white on primaries, pale cin- 

 namon or cinnamon-bufif on secondaries ; biU, legs, and feet black. 



Immature. — Similar to adults, but feathers of darker colored parts 

 more or less distinctly margined terminally with pale cinnamon or 

 dull buflfy. 



Adult male.— 'Length, (skins), 168.5-179.5 (174); wing, 71.5-72 

 (71.7); tail, 53.5-57 (55.2); exposed culmen, 36-48 (42); tarsus, 

 10-11.5 (10.7); outer anterior toe, 10."^ 



Adult female. — ^Length (skin), 175.5; wing, 71; tail, 56.5; exposed 

 culmen, 46.5; tarsus, 10.5; outer anterior toe, 10.* 



Eastern Panamfi. (Cana, Dari6n), southward to central Colombia 

 (Kio Nichi, Antioquia). 



Bradiygalba sahnoni Sclatek and Saitin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 535 (Eio 

 NicM, Antioquia, Colombia; coll. Salvia and Godman). — Sclatek, Mon. 

 Jacam. and Puff-Birds, 1882, p. [43], pi. 13; Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 

 173. 



Family BUCCONIDtE. 



THE PUFF BIBDS. 



■<CBiuxxmidx Boeb, Isis, 1826, 976 (includes Capitonidss and Trogomdx). 

 =Biuxonidse SciiATBE, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 268. — Oabanis and Heine, Mus. 



Heine, iv heft 1, 1863, 123.— Lilljeborg, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 16.— 



ScLATBR and Saxvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, pp. vi, 105. — Stejnegbr, Stand. 



Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 412, in text. — ^Fuerbringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., 



ii, 1888, 1325.— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 510.— 



Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 196. 

 =Bitcconm» Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heftl, 1863, 124. — Sundbvall, 



Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., ii, 1873, 76 (English translation, 1889, 149).— 



Gadow, Bronn's Thier-Reieh, Vog., ii, 1873, 266, 301. 

 = Capitonidie Bonaparte, Prodr. Syst. Orn., 1840, 18; Consp. Av., i, Feb., 



1850, 146. 

 = CapiUminx Bonaparte, Prodr. Syst. Orn., 1840, 18; Consp. Av., i, Feb., 



1850, 146. 

 =Succones Sharpe, Rev. Classif. Birds, 1891, 84; Hand-list, ii, 1900, 196. 

 = Tamatix Ftdzinger, Sitzungsberichte K. Akad. Wiss. Wien (Math.-nat. CL), 



xxi, 1856, 298. 



Small to medium-sized desmognathous Picarian Birds with very full, 

 lax, dull-colored plumage; pointed and anteriorly compressed bill, 

 with tip more or less strongly decurved, and both culmen and gonys 



o Two specimens, from Cana, e. Panamd. 6 One specimen, from Cana. 



