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BITLLEa?Ilir 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MXJSEtTM. 



red in life, fading to dull orange in dried skins; iris chestnut; " legs 

 and feet blackish (in dried skias). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but general coloration duller, more 

 sooty, frontal area tawny, and chin and throat black, more or less 

 broken by indistinct streaks of dull brownish white or pale tawny: 

 bill pinkish; " iris dark brown." 



'Adult wioZe.— Length (skins), 255-293 (273); wing, 133-146.5 

 (139.8); tail, 117.5-132 (123); exposed culmen, 35-39 (37.1); tar- 

 sus, 20-22 (21.1); outer anterior toe, 17.5-20 (18.9).* 



Mult feiMile.—ljeagt^ (skins), 270-295 (286); wing, 139-149.5 

 (144.3); tail, 121.5-132.5 (126.9); exposed culmen, 36-40.5 (38.5); 

 tarsus, 21-22 (21.4); outer anterior toe, 17-19.5 (18.6)." 



Caribbean slope of Costa Eica (Siplirio, Talamanca; Siquirres; 

 Rio Slcio; Eio Banana; El Hogfir; GuapUes; Guacimo; Cuabre; 

 Pacuare; Angostura; Jimenez; San Carlos; La Vijagua) and Nicar 

 ragua (La Libertad, Chontales; Vizagua; Rio Tuma, Matagalpa; 

 Mosquito coast). 



Monasa peruana (not of Sclater) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 118 (San 

 Carlos, "San Jos6" i.e. Talamanca, Pacuare, and "Payna," Costa Rica), 146 

 (Costa Rica; crit.).— Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 312 (San Carlos; 

 Pacuare). 



Monasa grandior Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1868, 327 (Angos- 

 tura, Costa Rica; coll. Salvin and Godman).— Salvin, Ibis, 1872, 322 (Chon- 

 tales, Nicaragua).— Zeled6n, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1887, 120 (Rio Sudo 

 and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 ii, 1896, 520 (Mosquito coast, Chontales, and La Libertad, Nicaragua; Angos- 

 tura, Pacuare, San Carlos, "SanJos6,"RioSucio, and Jimenez, Costa Rica). — 

 Cakhiker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 581 (Caribbean lowlands of Costa 

 Rica, up to 1,200 or 1,800 ft.; habits). 



M[onasa] grandior Salvin, Ibis, 1869, 315 (Costa Rica). 



[Monasal grandior Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 106. — Sharpe, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 200. 



Monacha grandior Sclater, Mon. Jacam. and Puff-Birds, 1882, 155, pi. 52; Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 205. 



o Jos6 C. Zeled6n, manuscript. 

 6 Twenty-five specimens, 

 c Eleven specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Ten adult males from Costa Rica. . . 

 Five adult males from Nicaragua. . . 



FEMALES. 



Ten adult females from Costa Rica . 

 One adult female from Nicaragua . . . 



Wing. 



139.3 

 140.7 



144.5 

 141.6 



Tail. 



Ex. 



_)Ose 



culmen. 



121.9 

 125 



127.1 

 125.5 



37.1 

 37 



38.0 

 37.5 



Tarsus, 



Outer 



anterioi 



toe. 



21.2 

 21 



21.4 

 21 



18.( 

 19. £ 



18. J 

 19.1 



