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NOTHARCHUS PECTORALIS (Gray). 



BLACE-BREASTED PrTFF-BIRD. 



Adults (sexes alike) . — Pileum, nape, upper back, anterior scapulars, 

 foreneck, chest, and breast, plain glossy greenish blue-black, passing 

 into "dead" black on anterior portion of malar region, suborbital 

 region, and lores; auricular region white, and from the posterior 

 extremity of this white area a coUar of white across hindneck, the 

 feathers of which are narrowly tipped with black; chin and throat 

 white, with a strongly convex or semicircular, sharply defined, pos- 

 terior outline; lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, tail, and wings 

 slate-black or blackish slate, the feathers narrowly margined termi- 

 nally with whitish, except primaries and primary coverts; abdo- 

 men, lower breast, anterior portion of sides, and under tail-coverts, 

 white; flanks and posterior part of sides dull slate color or slate-gray, 

 the feathers with a broad terminal margin of white and a narrower, 

 indistinct subterminal bar of darker slaty; bill black; legs and feet 

 dusky grayish or grayish black (in dried skins) . 



Adult male. — ^Length (skin), 206; wing, 97; tail, 80; exposed cul- 

 men, 31; tarsus, 17; outer anterior toe, 18.5." 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 205-207 (206); wing, 97-99 (98); 

 exposed culmen, 32.5-33 (32.7); tarsus, 16.5; outer anterior toe, 19.* 



Eastern PanamS, (Lion Hill; Chepo) to central Colombia (Magda- 

 lena Valley; Nichi, Antioquia; Bucaramanga) . 



Bucco pectoralis Gkat, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1846, [74], pi. 26; List Fissirostr. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., 1848, 47. — Sclatee, Ann. and Mag. N. H., ser. 2, xiii, 



1854, 358 (monogr.); Synop. Bucconidse, 1854, 8; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 



1855, 196; Mon. Jacam. and Pu£f-birds, 1882, 75, pi. 24; Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xix, 1891, 184 (Lion Hill and Chepo, Panama; Magdalena Valley 

 and Antioquia, Colombia). — -Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 464 

 (Lion Hill, Panama). — Sclateb and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 

 363 (Lion Hill); 1879, 536 (NicH, Antioquia, Colombia).— Wyatt, Ibis, 

 1871,' 374 (Magdalena Valley, Colombia).— Beelepsch, Joum. ftir Om., 

 1884, 277, 815 (Bucaramanga, Colombia). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 189G, 513. 



[Bucco] pectoralis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 85, no. 1011. — Sclatee and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 105.— Shaepe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 197. 



[Capita] pectoralis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 146. 



[Tamatia] pectoralis Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 128 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 13). 



N[otfuirchus] pectoralis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 152. 



NOTHARCHUS TECTUS SUBTECTUS (gclater). 



PANAMA PIED PtTFF-BIRD. 



Similar to N. tectus tedus " but averaging slightly smaller; black 

 jugular band narrower, and white spotting of pileum usually confined 

 to forehead, and there sometimes indistinct. 



o One specimen. i Two specimens. ' See page 376. 



