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BIRDS OF THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA — PART 4 



wings and tail, sides of breast, sides, flanks, and sides of abdomen 

 blackish gray; rest of undersurface, lesser wing coverts and bend of 

 wing rosy red. 



Adult female, like male, but red replaced by rich tawny, darkest on 

 breast. 



Immature male, like female with patches of rose-red. 



A female collected at El Llano, Panama, on February 5, 1962, had 

 the iris wood brown; anterior two thirds of culmen line, cutting edge, 

 tip of maxilla, and mandible light neutral gray, the maxillar areas some- 

 what duller; a line down back of tarsus light brownish white; rest of 

 tarsus, toes, and claws dark grayish brown. 



Figure 36. — Rosy Thrush-Tanager, Frutero Rosaceo, Rhodinocichla rosea eximia. 



Measurements. — Males (10 from Panama), wing 83.5-86.0 (84.6), 

 tail 76.8-85.3 (81.0), culmen from base 21.9-24.8 (22.9), tarsus 24.5- 

 27.4 (26.1) mm. 



Females (10 from Panama), wing 78.0-85.0 (81.5), tail 76.9-86.1 

 (80.2), culmen from base 21.2-22.7 (21.8), tarsus 25.5-27.7 (26.1) 

 mm. 



Resident. Uncommon to fairly common in lowlands on the Pacific 

 slope from Chiriqui east to eastern Province of Panama at least as far 

 as the mouth of the Rio Terrable on the Rio Bayano (specimen in the 

 Museo Nacional of Panama); on the Caribbean side it is known only 



