BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 271 
CAMPYLORHAMPHUS VENEZUELENSIS (Chapman). 
VENEZUELAN SICKLE BILL. 
Adults (sexes alike).—Pileum deep sepia or bister brown, each 
feather with a mesial guttate streak of dull buff or clay color, the 
hindneck similar but the ground color slightly lighter brown; back 
and scapulars lighter, more fulvous or russet, brown (between raw- 
umber and russet or mars brown), the upper back usually with more 
or less distinct narrow mesial streaks of pale dull buffy; rump more 
rufescent brown than back, the upper tail-coverts still more strongly 
rufescent (nearly cinnamon-rufous); tail and remiges, including 
shafts, plain chestnut, the wing-coverts similar but duller (intermedi- 
ate between color of remiges and that of back); sides of head and neck 
rather broadly streaked with deep sepia brown and pale dull buffy; 
chin and throat pale dull buffy or dull buffy whitish, the feathers of 
throat rather broadly edged with sepia brown, producing distinct 
streaks; foreneck and chest light brown (between raw-umber and 
isabella color), with rather broad mesial linear streaks of pale buffy 
or dull buffy whitish, the breast similar but with the streaks narrower 
and less distinct; rest of under parts similar but slightly paler and 
with streaks obsolete (absent on flanks and thighs); under wing- 
coverts deep ochraceous-buff, paler and usually indistinctly flecked 
with pale brownish along edge of wing; inner webs of remiges vina- 
ceous-cinnamon, the outer primaries passing into grayish brown ter- 
minally; bill light reddish brown (nearly cinnamon-rufous); iris 
brown; legs and feet dusky horn color or olive (in dried skins). 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 226-252 (239); wing, 92-96.5 (94); 
tail, 72-81 (78); culmen (chord), 60-66 (62); tarsus, 21.5-22 (21.8); 
middle toe, 16.5-18 (17.5).% 
Adult female.—Length (skins), 224-227 (225); wing, 88-96 (91.3); 
tail, 73.5-82.5 (78.3); culmen (chord), 58-64 (60.7); tarsus, 21-22 
(21.5); middle toe, 17-18 (17.5).® 
a Three specimens, from Panamé. 
b Three specimens—one from Venezuela, two from Panama. 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. ae Tarsus. wee 
FEMALES, 
One adult female from Venezuela............--.2----2eeee eee ee 96 82.5 58 22 17.5 
Two adult females from eastern Panama (Lion Hill)........... 89 76.2 62 21.2 17.5 
In all probability, comparison of good series of specimens will show that the Panamé 
bird is separable from that of Venezuela. 
