398 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Aiult maZe.— Wing, 143.« 



Adult female. — ^Wing, 141; tail, 117; exposed culmen, 34; tarsu 

 20.5; outer anterior toe, 19.* 



Three other specimens, with sex undetermined, measure as follow 

 Wing, 135.5-141.5 (139); tail, 115-127 (120); exposed culmen (bil 

 all defective); tarsus, 19.5-20(19.8); outer uaterior toe, 18.5-19 

 (19). AU are alike in coloration, except that in some (perhaj 

 younger birds) the capistrum is decidedly rusty. 



Northwestern Colombia, near eastern extremity of Isthmus i 

 Panama (Rio Truando; Truando Falls; Rio Atrato). 



Monasa palleacens Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 134 (Cordilleras 



the Rio Traando, n. w. Colombia; coll. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.); 1864, 287, pi. 



(Rio Atrato). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 52 



part (Rio Truando). 

 [Monasa] palleacens Sclatbk and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 106, part.- 



Shakpb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 200, part. 

 M[onasta] pallescens Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, heft 1, 1863, 12 



footnote (Rio Truando). 

 Monacha pallescens Sclater, Mon. Jacam. and Puft-Birde, 1882, 157, part (n 



pi. 53 nor deecr., which= Jf. sclateri); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 20 



part (in synonymy only). 



MONASA MINOR (Nelson). 



MAKRAGAITTI NTJS BIRD. 



Similar to M. pallescens but color of wing-coverts and under pan 

 decidedly darker. Similar also to M. similis, but color of win| 

 coverts (especially the under wiag-coverts) decidedly paler, an 

 black of f oreneck and upper chest much intermixed with gray* 



Adult moZe.— Lores (except portion immediately ia front of ey 

 and anterior portion of forehead white, tinged or stained with du 

 cinnamon or fawn color; rest of forehead duU black, passing gradi 

 ally into more sooty or slaty black on crown, this gradually becon 

 ing more and more tinged with dull slate toward the upper bad 

 which is dull slate color; rest of head and neck black, the forene( 

 intermixed, longitudinally, with slate-gray, the remaining und 

 parts light slate-gray or deep plumbeous, slightly paler on abdome 

 darker, or iatermixed with blackish slate, on under taU-covert 

 lower back, scapulars, rump, and shorter upper tail-coverts unifor 

 slate-gray; wing-coverts light slate-gray (between no. 6 gray ai 

 neutral gray) ; remiges, rectrices, and longer upper tail-coverts blac 

 the two innermost secondaries with outer webs deep slate-gray, tl 

 third (sometimes fourth also) edged with the same; under win, 

 coverts light neutral gray, becoming stUl paler toward edge of win; 

 biU red; legs and feet slaty blackish (in dried skins) ; length (skins 



a One specimen (the type); specimen defective. b One specimen. 



