BIBDS OF KOBTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 391 



breast, etc., the under parts sometimes nearly uniform tawny- 

 ochraceous; adult female with throat and chest pale buflf, the remain- 

 ing imder parts less purely white (often pale bufif) ; wing, bill, and 

 tarsus averaging decidedly shorter, tail averaging slightly longer. 



Adult mfflZe.— Length (skins), 170-190 (182);. wing, 80-88 (83.9); 

 tan, 70-79.5 (75.4); exposed cuhnen, 23.5-27 (26.1); tarsus, 16-18.5 

 (17.5); outer anterior toe, 14-16.5 (15.1)." 



Adult female. —Length, (skins), 175-195 (184) ; wing, 82-90.5 (86.2) ; 

 tail, 72.5-85 (77.8) ; exposed cuhnen, 25-28.5 (27.4) ; tarsus, 17-18.5 

 (17.6); outer anterior toe, 14.5-16 (15.4).* 



Caribbean slope of Costa Eica (Sipiirio and Rio SIcsola, Talamanca; 

 RioSticio; Gudciino; Gu&piles; Guaitll; Guayabo;ElHogar; Carrillo; 

 Cuabre; Angostura; Pacuare; San Carlos; La Vijagua) and north- 

 ward through Nicaragua (Chontales; Greytown; Rio Grande; Rio 

 Escondido; Rio Coco; Savala, Uluce, and Tuma, Matagalpa; San 

 Carlos; Santo Domingo; Rama), Honduras (San Pedro Sula), British 

 Honduras (Toledo District; Moho River), Guatemala (Choctiim; 

 Cobto; Chis^c; Los Amates, Yzab&l), and Salvad6r to Tabasco 

 (Teapa) . 



Monasa inomata DtrBus, Bull. Ac. Boy. Belg., xiv, pt. 2, no. 8, Aug., 1847, 107 

 (Guatemala; coll. Brussels Mus.). — Lafkesnatb, Rev. Zool., 1848, 249. — 

 Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 147. 



M[onasa] inomata Gray, Gen. Birds, iii, 1849, App., p. 4. 



Malacoptila inomata Sclater, Ann. and Mag. N. H., ser. 2, xiii, 1854, 478 

 (monogr.); Synop. Bucconidse, 1854, 19; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 196 

 (east Peru); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 273 (Choctum, Guatemala); Mon. Jacam. 

 and Puff-Birds, 1882, 125, pi. 41; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 197 (Chisec, 

 Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Salvin and Sclateb, Ibis, 1860, 40 (Coban, Guate- 

 mala). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 118, part (Angostura, Costa 

 Rica). — Prantzius, Joum. fur Om., 1869, 311, part (Pacuare, Costa Rica). — 

 BoucARD, Liste Ois. r&ol. Guat., 1878, 24. — Salvdj and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 517 (San Carlos, Rama, Santo Domingo, etc., 

 Nicaragua; etc.). — Dearborn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 91 (Los 

 Amates, Yzab^l, Guatemala; habits). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 

 1910, 580 (Caribbean slope, Costa Rica). 



[Malacoptila] inomata Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 106. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 198. 



Malacoptila verx-pads Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, ii, Jan., 1860, 40 (Coban, Guate- 

 mala; coll. Salvin and Godman).— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 273 

 (Choctum, Guatemala). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1867, 183 (Grey- 

 town, Nicaragua); ix, 1868, 118 (Pacuare and Guaitil, Costa Rica). 



M[alacoptila] verae-paeis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 139 

 (Guatemala). 



Malacoptila ■veraepads Frantzius, Joum. fiir Om., 1869, 311 (Costa Rica). 



Malacoptila verapads Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1867, 183 (Greytown, 

 Nicaragua). 



o Twenty specimens. 6 Twenty-five specimens. 



