BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 487 



Cayo, Brit. Honduras; sources of Rio de la Pasion, Savaua Grande, etc., 



Guatemala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1895, 471 



(Valle Real, Jalapa, Uvero, etc., Vera Cruz; Cayo, Brit. Honduras; Cubil- 



guitz, Khamkal, Volcan de Agua, etc., Guatemala). 

 [Sylomanes] mmnotala Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 102. — 



Shaepb, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 77 (Mexico; Guatemala). 

 [Hyhmanes] Tnomotulus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein., 1890, 156 



(Guatemala). 

 M[omotiis] momotula Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 68. 

 Momotus Tnomotula Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, pi. 24; Lists Fissirostr. Birds Brit. 



Mus., 1848, 40. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, Momoti, 1863, 7 (Mexico). 

 [Movwtus] momotula Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 81, no. 947. 



HYLOMANES MOMOTULA OBSCURUS Nelson. 



PANAMA TODY-MOTMOT. 



Similar to H. m. momotula but rufous of pileuin and Mndneck 

 darker or duller (usually both), forehead more distinctly and ex- 

 tensively brown or olivaceous (this often covering whole crown), 

 and darker color of under parts averaging darker, more olivaceous 

 or greenish, and rather more extended. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 146-170.5 (168.5); wing, 69.5-75 

 (73); tail, 58-64 (61.2); exposed culmen, 25-28.5 (26.7); tarsus, 

 17.5-19 (18.2); middle toe, 12-14.5 (12.9)." 



Adult /emffiZe.— Length (skins), 150-174.5 (163); wing 72-76.5 

 (73.9); tail, 58-73 (63.3); exposed culmen, 26-30 (27.5); tarsus, 

 17.5-19.5 (18.3); middle toe, 12-14.5 (13.2).» 



Northwestern Costa Eica (Volcdn de MiravaUes; La Vijagua; 

 Ten6rio; Cerro Santa Maria). Eastern Panama (Cerro Brujo, Canal 

 Zone; Cana, Dari6n). 



Hyhmanes momotula (not of Lichtenstein) Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 443 (Volcan 

 de MiravaUes, Costa Rica; crit.). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, 

 1909, 32 (La Vijagua, Tenorio, and Cerro Santa Maria, Costa Rica; crit.). — 

 Caerikbr, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 498 (n. w. Costa Rica). 



Hyhmanes momotula ohscurus Nelson, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 56, no. 22, 

 Sept. 7, 1911, 1 (Cerro Brujo, Canal Zone, Panama; coll. TJ. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Suborder NYCTICORACIiE. 

 ■SOCIVESAI^ GOKACIX. 



= Chelidones nocturni Merrem, Abhandl. Berlin Acad., 1812-13 (1816), p. 241. 



= Cuculinx nocturnx Nitzsch, Syet. Pterylog., 1840, 124. 



=Caprimulgin£e Nitzsch, Syst. Pterylog., 1840, 124. 



= Capnmulgidse Bonaparte, Prodr. Syst. Cm., 1840, 4; Consp. Av., i, 1850, 

 57. — LiLLjBBORG, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 16. — Baikd, Brewer, and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 398. — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 

 2d ed., 1884, 447. 



=Pissirostres nocturnse Gray, Hand -list Birds, i, 1869, 53. 



a Six specimens from Costa Rica. 



i Seven specimens (six from Costa Rica). 



