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culmen, 12.Y-15.2 (13.7); greatest width of mandibular rami, 4.8-5.3 

 (5.1); tarsus, 19.8-22.1 (20.6); middle toe, 13.6-15.2 (14).' 



AdAilt female. — Head and neck uniform dark seal brown, darker 

 (almost brownish black) on pileum and hindneck, the forehead and 

 lores slightly tinged with dusky reddish; interscapulars and scapulars 

 dusky centrally, broadly margined with dark brownish red or reddish 

 brown; lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brownish red (dull 

 vermilion, coral red, or dull poppy red); wings and tail blackish brown, 

 the wing-coverts with distinct brown or reddish brown edgings, the 

 remiges and rectrices with narrower and less distinct edgings of the 

 same, sometimes obsolete or altogether wanting; under parts of body 

 and under tail-coverts dull brownish red; bill blackish, with mandibular 

 rami grayish or brownish; legs and feet dusky (in dried skins) ; length, 

 (skins), 145.3-163.6 (154.9); wing, 74.4^-78.2 (76.2); tail, 66.3-74.7 

 (70.1); exposed culmen, 13.2-14.7 (14); greatest width of mandibular 

 rami, 4.6-5.1 (4.8); tarsus, 20.3-21.8 (21.1); middle toe, 13-14.7 (14).' 



Young. — Similar in color to adult female, but texture of plumage 

 very different (loose and " woolly"). 



Colombia (Bogota; Santa Marta; Cartagena; etc.'), northward along 

 Caribbean coast to Chiriqui. 



Ramphocelm dimidiatus Lapresnaye, Mag. de Zool., ser. 7, 1837, classe ii, not- 

 Ixxxi, pi. 81 (Cartagena, Colombia). — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 

 242.— ScLATEE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855, 156 (Bogota, Colombia); 1856, 

 129 (monogr. ; Cartagena, Santa Marta, and Bogota, Colombia; Chiriqui?; 

 Veragua?; "Nicaragua"), 149 (Venezuela); 1858, 73 (Rio Napo, e. Ecua- 

 dor); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 53; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 79 (Colombia).— 

 Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 141 (Turbo, n. Colombia.— (?) Law- 

 KENCE, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1865, 176 (David, Chiriqui). — Sclatee and 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1868, 627 (Venezuela); 1870, 780 (do.).— 

 (?) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 187, part (Mina de Chorcha, 

 Chiriqui). — Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, 326 (Colombia; descr. nest and eggs). — 

 Robinson, Flying Trip to Tropics, 1895, 161 (Magdalena R. and Guaduas, 

 Colombia). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, 1898, 141 (Santa Marta, 

 Colombia), 159 (Puebla Viejo, prov. Santa Marta), 179 (Palomina and San 

 Miguel, prov. Santa Marta).— Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xiii, 1900, 168 

 (Cacagualito, prov. Santa Marta) . 



' Ten specimens. 

 ^ Seven specimens. 



'Specimens from central Colombia (" Bogota") average larger than those from the 

 northern coast district, average measurements being as follows: 



