BIEDS OF NORTH AKD MIDDLE AMERICA. 



469 



Young. — Similar to adults but green of upper parts darker and 

 luUer, posterior under parts olive-green instead of bluish green, and 

 )lack tuft on center of foreneck smaller. 



Adult TJwZe.— Length (slcins), 420-525 (454); miig, 140.5-159 

 :i51.8); tail, 241-321 (278.1); exposed culmen, 42.5-53 (47.1); tar- 

 lus, 28-34 (31.4); middle toe, 19.5-24 (22).» 



Adult female. — ^Length (skins), 435-512 (459); wing, 145-157.5 

 ;i50.8); tail, 258-311 (276.3); exposed culmen, 43-51.5 (46.5); tar- 

 sus, 30-33 (31.7); middle toe, 21-23.5 (22.1)." 



Eastern Nicaragua (La Libertdd, Chontales; Rio Escondido) and 

 southward through Caribbean slope of Costa Rica (San Carlos; La 

 i^ijagua; Barranca; Cuabre; Guacimo; Gu^piles; Carrillo; El 

 Elog&r; Guayabo; Volc&n de Turrialba; Naranjo de Cartago; 

 kigostura; Jimenez; Rio SIcsola; Pacuare; Talamanca), Panama 

 ;Santa Fe and Santiago, Veragua; Calobre; Lion Hill; Cerro Aziil), 

 md Colombia ("Bogota"; Santa Marta; Rem^dios and Nichi, 

 intioquia; RioNercua; Honda) to northwestern Ecuador " (Chimbo ; 

 ]!achavi; Paramba; Foreste del Rio Peripa). 



Momotus martii (not Prionites martii Spix) Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1860, 136 (Rio Nercua, Colombia).— (?)Sclateb, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 262, 

 excl. syn. part (Ecuador). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 290 

 (Lion HUl, Panama); ix, 1868, 117 (Pacuare, Costa Rica). — Sclateb and 

 Salvin, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., 1864, 363 (Lion Hill).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1867, 151 (Santa Fe and Santiago de Veragua, Panama); 1870, 

 201 (Calobre, Panama); Ibis, 1872, 320 (Chontales, Nicaragua). — Prantzius, 

 Joiu:n. fur Om., 1869, 311 (Costa Rica). — Beblepsch and Taozanowski, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 571 (CMmbo, w. Ecuador; crit.). 



[Momotus] martii Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 80, no. 939, part (w. Ecuador; Colombia). 



[Crypticus] martii Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 165, part (Colombia). 



o Twenty-one specimens. 

 b Thirteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tan. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



^ine adult males from Costa Rica 



■Jine adult males from Panama 



rhiee adult males from central Colombia (Honda) 



)ne adult male from Peru ( U. m. martii) 



)ne adult (male?) from Amazon Valley, Brazil (!7. m. martii) 



FEMALES. 



?eu adult females from Costa Eica 



Mrree adult females from Panama 



154.8 

 149.6 

 149.2 

 142.7 

 143.5 



152.3 

 145.7 



292.4 



267.9 



264.3 



240 



240 



281.1 

 263.3 



48.7 

 46.6 



40 

 42 



47.1 

 44.2 



32.4 



31 



29.5 



29.5 



30.5 



31.7 

 ,31.8 



22.2 



22 



21.7 



20 



20 



22.2 

 21.7 



Besides averaging larger, specimens from Costa Rica and Nicaragua are somewhat 

 ighter colored than many Panama examples, which, together with Colombian ones, 

 'ary in the direction of U. m. martii; still, even Colombian examples resemble the 

 a,tter less than they do the Costa Rican series. 



" I have not seen an Ecuadorean example of this species. 



