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lappet. Upper parts plain brown or olive, the wings and tail glossed 

 with bronze-green and purple; lateral rectrices without white tip; 

 under parts of body light brown passing into chestnut posteriorly, 

 sometimes barred with darker; an interrupted band of black across 

 chest. 



Range. — Nicaragua to eastern Peru, Brazil, and British Guiana. 

 (Five species.) 



NEOMORPHUS SALVINI Sclater. 



SAIVIN'S GROUND CUCKOO. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Forehead and crown plain tawny-brown, 

 paler (light roods brown or verona brown) anteriorly, deeper (mars 

 brown) posteriorly; feathers of occipital crest glossy blue-black ter- 

 minally, more greenish or bronzy basally, where edged with brown; 

 hindneck, upper back, and wing-coverts bronzy olive-brown or sepia 

 (sometimes tinged with purplish bronze) , the lower back and scapulars 

 mixed bronzy olive and bronzy purplish, the latter predominating 

 posteriorly; rump and upper tail-coverts nearly uniform deep pur- 

 plish brown, strongly glossed (especially on upper tail-coverts) with 

 bronzy purple; tail dusky olive-green, in part overlaid by dusky 

 purple, this sometimes covering whole of the middle rectrices; sec- 

 ondaries bright, metallic dusky olive-green, the primaries much 

 darker, as well as more bluish, dusky green or greenish black; auric- 

 ular region brown with blackish shaft-streaks, its upper edge, more or 

 less extensively, blackish; suborbital and malar regions lighter brown 

 (much like color of forehead, or paler), the chin and throat pale buffy 

 brown to pale buffy grayish, the feathers sometimes with indistinct 

 mesial streaks of darker; foreneck and chest mixed grayish and tawny- 

 brownish, the feathers broadly tipped with paler, forming transverse 

 spots or bars, the last feathers of the chest with large terminal, 

 mostly broadly deltoid, spots of black, forming a conspicuous, more 

 or less broken, band; breast and abdomen light tawny-brown, or 

 buffy brown, to pale brownish gray suffused with pale brown, the 

 sides similar, but darker and duller; flanks rufescent brown (nearly 

 walnut or cameo brown), the under tail-coverts darker and duller 

 (burnt umber); under surface of remiges wholly uniform dusky 

 (nearest dark quaker drab); under surface of tail blackish, faintly 

 glossed with olive-greenish; bill (in dried skins) pale yellowish dis- 

 tally, darker, or dusky, basally; legs and feet light greenish gray or 

 horn color. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 480-505 (490); wing, 167-178 

 (172.8); tail, 258-271 (261.8); exposed culmen, 43-47 (45.4); tarsus, 

 71-72.5 (71.5); outer anterior toe, 33-37.5 (36) ." 



" Five specimens. 



