166 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



to secure by ordinary means, frequenting as it does the thickest kind 

 of second-growth or scrub, and being moreover excessively shy. It 

 ranges through the Tropical Zone, or from sea-level up to at least 

 5,000 feet, but is more common in the lower foothills and the coastal 

 plain. It was found to be fairly common at Loma Larga in July, 1920. 

 Mr. Smith sent in two eggs, found on the ground in a thicket at 

 Don Amo, August 6, and described as " nearly uniform ecru drab." 



66. Crypturornis idoneus (Todd). 



Crypturus columbianus (not of Salvador!) .Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washing- 

 ton, XII, 1898, 131 ("Santa Marta"; crit). — Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. 

 Hist., XIII, 1900, 124 (Bonda). 



Crypturus idoneus Todd, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, XXXII, 1919, '17 

 (Bonda; orig. descr. ; type in coll. Carnegie Mus.). 



Two specimens : Bonda. 



description. — Adult male: pileum dull brown (nearest bone-brown), 

 passing into warm sepia on the hindneck, and into cinnamon on the 

 sides of the head; chin and upper throat white, sometimes washed 

 with cinnamon or buffy laterally; lower throat and breast dull neutral 

 gray, more or less washed with buffy, and passing into pale buff on 

 the chest and abdomen ; flanks variegated with black subterminal and 

 buffy white terminal bars, and under tail-coverts rich buff, with ir- 

 regular black bars and lines; back vandyke-brown, passing into sepia 

 posteriorly, and becoming barred with black, the bars increasing in 

 width posteriorly, and followed by buffy white terminal bars on each 

 feather; scapulars, wing-coverts, and tertiaries sepia, with irregular 

 black and buffy white bars and markings like the lower back ; primary- 

 coverts deep or dark neutral gray, unmarked; primaries externally 

 dusky brown, also unmarked; secondaries dusky or grayish brown, with 

 irregular buffy spots on the outer webs, giving a barred effect to the 

 closed wing; under wing-coverts grayish white, the outer ones dusky; 

 " feet and legs coral pink." 



Female similar, but much more richly colored throughout, the pileum 

 and hindneck rich chestnut-brown, with obscure black barring; back 

 carob-brown, with the scapulars, tertiaries, and lower back conspicu- 

 ously barbed with black and buffy white, the latter color passing into 

 rufescent anteriorly, this barring much heavier than in the male; 

 lower throat and breast strongly shaded with buffy, and chest and under 

 parts also rich buffy (between cinnamon-buff and clay-color). 



