BIEDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLB AMEEIOA. 383 



jinkish buflF, the sides and flanks more or less spotted with black; 

 Dili black; iris pale brown ;» legs and feet dusky (ia dried skins). 



Adult male.— Lmgth (skdns), 187-205 (196); wing, 83.5-88 (86.6); 

 tail, 75-79.5 (78.1); exposed culmen, 31-33 (32.6); tarsus, 18-20 

 (19.2); outer anterior toe, 17-20 (18.4).* 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 200-216 (208); wing, 87-93 (88.9); 

 tail, 79-86 (81.2); exposed culmen, 32-37 (33.9); tarsus, 18.5-21 

 (19.7); outer anterior toe, 17.5-20 (18.4).° 



Young. — Similar to adults but pale gray spots on scapulars, etc., 

 smaller and less distinct (in younger specimens the feathers with a 

 narrow terminal margin of buff and a dusky subterminal bar), edgings 

 of remiges and rectrices buff, and jugular band brownish black with 

 aarrow terminal margins of buff (sometimes broken iato a transverse 

 series of spots). 



Northern and central Colombia (Rio Truando; Sabamlla, Carta- 

 gena; BarranquiUa; Santa Marta; Bonda; VaUe Dup4r; Ocana; 

 Canuto; lower Rio Magdalena; vicinity of Bogota). 



C[apito] ruficx>lU$ Waglee, Isis, 1829, 658 ("Mexico"; coll. Berlin Mus.). 



[Capit6\ruficollis Bonapakte, Conep. Av., i, 1850, 146. 



B[wxo\ ruficollis Gray, Genera Birds, i, 1846, 74. 



Bvcco ruficollis Sclatbb, Ann. and Mag. N. H., eer. 2, xiii, 1854, 360 (monogr.); 

 Synopsis Bucconidse, 1854, 10, pi. 1; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1855, 196 (Co- 

 lombia); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 270 (Santa Marta); Mon. Jacam. and Puff- 

 Birds, 1882, 89, pi. 29; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 187 (Santa Marta, 

 Sabanilla, Ocana, and Valle Dupdr, Colombia). — Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 PHla., 1860, 134 (Kio Truando, Colombia).— Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 374 (Canuto, 

 Magdalena Valley, Colombia). — Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 205 (Valle 

 Dupdr, Santa Marta, Colombia); 1880, 175 (Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta); 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 514. — Bbblbpsch, Joum. far Om., 1884, 318 

 (Bucaramanga, Colombia). — ^Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 133 

 (Santa Marta). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. PMla., 1899, 305 (vicinity of 

 Bogotd, Colombia). — ^Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 135 (Santa 

 Marta and Bonda, S. M., Colombia; xxi, 1905, 280 (descr. eggs). 



[Biuxo] ruficollis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 86, no. 1023. — Sclatbb and Salvin, 

 Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 106.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 197. 



[Chaunomis] ruficollis Bonaparte, Ateneo Italiano, ii, 1854, 128 (Consp. Volucr. 

 Zygod., 1854, 13). 



E\ypnelus] ruficollis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Heia., iv, heft 1, 1863, 144 (Car- 

 tagena and BarranquiUa, Colombia). 



Tamatia guCaris D'Okbigny and Lafeesnaye, Rev. Zool., Aug., 1838, 166 

 (Cartagena, Colombia). 



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



"■ Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 205. 6 Eight specimens. <= Ten specimens. 



