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throat and breast, tawny-olive, with a wedge-shaped black patch on 

 throat, bordered with pale turquoise-blue ; superciliar stripe of pale 

 bluish-white. Eumomota superciliaris australis. 



203. Urospatha martii (Spix). 



Prionites martii SPIX, Av. Bras., II, 1824, 64, pi. 60. 



Momotus martii Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 117 ( Pacuare [J. Car- 



miol]). — Frantzius, Jour, fur On., 1869, 311 (Pacuare and San Carlos). 

 Urospatha martii Salvadori, Atti. R. Accad. Sci. Torino, IV, 1872, 179. — 



Boucard, P. Z. S., 1878, 49 (San Carlos). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. de 



C. R., I, 1887, 119 (Naranjo de Cartago, Jimenez). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 314 (Angostura [J. Carmiol]). 

 Baryphlhengus martii Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 1895, 



462 (C. R. references). 



U. S. Nat. Museum : Guayabo (Ridgway and Zeledon). 



Bangs Collection: Carrillo, Jimenez, La Vijagua (Underwood). 



C. H. Lankester Collection : Guacimo. 



Carnegie Museum : Guapiles (Carriker and Crawford) ; Guacimo, 



Cuabre, Rio Sicsola, El Hogar (Carriker). Nine skins. 



This beautiful large motmot, the largest of the family in Costa 

 Rica, is found only in the Caribbean lowlands, up to an altitude of 

 not more than 2,000 feet, and more commonly below 1,000 feet. It 

 is never seen outside of the heavy humid forests of this region, usually 

 goes about in pairs, and is most frequently seen digging about the 

 overturned roots of some large tree or along an exposed bank of a 

 creek. Their nests are made by excavating a hole in a clay-bank, 

 after the manner of the kingfishers, but I have never found a nest 



with eggs. 



204. Prionornis minor Hartert. 



Prionirhynchus platyrhynchus Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., IX, 1868, 117 



(Atiro, Barranca, and Angostura [J. Carmiol], Dota and Grecia [E. Carmiol]). 



— Frantzius, Jour, fiir Orn., 1869,311 (C. R.). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. 



de C. R., I, 1887, 119 (Jimenez, Angostura, Barranca). — Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., XVII, 1892, 315 (Angostura [Carmiol]). — UNDERWOOD, 



Ibis, 1896, 443 (Miravalles). 

 Prionornis platyrhynchus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, II, 



1895, 467 (references). 

 Prionornis minor Hartert, Nov. Zool., V, 1898, 498 (Panama to Costa Rica). 



U. S. Nat. Museum: Bonilla (Alfaro). 



Bangs Collection : La Vijagua, Reventazon, La Junta (Underwood). 

 Carnegie Museum : Guapiles (Carriker & Crawford) ; Guacimo, El 

 Hogar (Carriker). Seven skins. 



