BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female.— Length (skins), 470-503 (486); wing, 164-178 

 (170.3); tail, 252-280 (265); exposed culmen, 43.5-47 (45.8); tarsus, 

 68.5-73 (71.2); outer anterior toe, 34-37 (36).° 



Nicaragua (Chontales;Savala, Matagalpa;Pefia Blanca;Kio Tuma) 

 Costa Rica (Volcan de Miravalles; Cerro Santa Maria; La Vijagua; 

 CariblancodeSarapiqui; Bonilla; Rio Sicsola, Talamanca) , and Pan- 

 ama(Santiago and Cordillera de Tol6, Veragua; Cascajal, CoclS; Gattin, 

 Canal Zone); Colombia; Ecuad6r. 6 



Neomorpkus salvini Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 60, pi. 5 (Veragua, 

 Panama; coll. O. Salvin).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 156 (San- 

 tiago de Veragua and Cordillera deTole, Panama); Ibis, 1872, 313, 323 (Chon- 

 tales, Nicaragua).— Lawrence, Ibis, 1873, 291 (monogr.; crit.).— Zeled6n, 

 Anal. Mus. Nat., Costa Pica, i, 1887, 123 (Costa Rica).— Shelley, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 417 (Nicaragua; Veragua; Colombia; Rio 

 Cotopaza, Ecuador). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 

 533, part (Chontales, Nicaragua; Santiago de Veragua; Panama; Colombia; 

 Ecuador). — Underwood, Ibis, 1896, 445 (Volcan de Miravalles, n. w. Costa 

 Rica; habits). — Rldgway, Condor, vii, 1905, 156, in text (Bonilla, Costa 

 Rica). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, 1909, 30 (La Vijagua and Cerro 

 Santa Maria, n. Costa Rica). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 

 566 (Bonilla, Cariblanco de Sarapiqui, and Rio Sicsola, Costa Rica; habits). 



[Neomorphus] salvini Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 107. — Sharps, 

 Hand-list, ii, 1900, 174. 



Genus DROMOCOCCYX Maximilian. 



Dromoeoccyx Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iv, 1832, 351. (Type, Maeropus 



phmanellus Spix.) 

 Geo-tacco Verreaux, Rev. et Mag. d'Zool., i, 1849, 277. (Type, G. maerourus 



Verreaux= Maeropus phmanellus Spix.) 

 Maeropus" (not of Latreille, 1802) Spix, Av. Bras., i, 1824, 53. (Type, M. phas- 



ianellus Spix.) 

 Geophilusd Bertoni, Aves Nuevas del Paraguay, 1901, 43. (Type, G. jasijatere 



Bertoni= Maeropus phasinellus Spix.) 



a Three specimens. 



Locality. 



"Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



Three adult males fromNicaragua 



Oneadult male from Costa Rica 



Oneadult male from eastern Panama (Gatun) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Nicaragua 



Two adult females from Costa Rica 



172.8 



172 



173.5 



164 

 173.5 



256.7 



268 



271 



252 

 271.5 



46.5 

 45.5 

 43 



43.5 



47 



71.8 



71 



71 



73 



70.2 



35.5 

 36.5 



37 



37 

 35.5 



b I have not seen specimens from Colombia nor Ecuador. 



"MmcpSc, long; nobe, foot. (Richmond.) 



d rij, ground, earth; <j>lXoc , loving. (Bertoni.) 



