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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.

and throat also) faintly barred or flecked with dusky, the auricular region with narrow shaft-streaks of whitish; under tail-coverts broadly tipped or terminally margined with white; maxilla brownish black, mandible grayish or brownish (bluish gray in life?); legs and feet horn color (bluish gray in life?); length (skins), 129-151 (141); wing, 66.5-74 (69.6); tail, 51.5-60 (55.1); culmen, 16.5-21 (19.7); tarsus, 19.5-22 (20.6); middle toe, 12.5-14.5 (13.2).[1]

Adult female. — General color of upper parts olive-brown, the pileum more rufescent (more russet or mars brown); interscapulars with much concealed white; upper tail-coverts dull chestnut-brown, usually tipped (more or less distinctly) with pale buffy brown or buffy; tail dark chestnut-brown, the rectrices tipped with white or buffy, the exterior pair with a quadrate spot of white or buffy on outer web beyond middle portion; wings dusky, all the wing-coverts conspicuously tipped with pale buff or buffy white, tertials broadly edged with the same, the remaining remiges edged with russet or brown (becoming paler and more buffy on outer primaries); sides of head, chin, and throat pale olive-buffy, the auricular region with narrow shaft-streaks of whitish or pale buffy; rest of under parts plain light buffy olive (sometimes approaching wood brown) the middle of abdomen paler and more yellowish or buffy, the under tail-coverts more rufescent or cinnamomeous; bill and feet as in adult male; length (skins), 132-150 (141.1); wing, 64-70.5 (67.5); tail, 50-58.5 (54.1); culmen, 18-20 (18.8); tarsus, 20-22 (20.9); middle

toe, 12-14 (13.2).[2]


  1. Twenty specimens.
  2. Twenty-one specimens.
    Locality. Wing. Tail. Culmen. Tarsus. Middle
    toe.
    males.
    Four adult males from Honduras (3) and British Honduras (1) 69.8 56.4 19.9 20.4 13.1
    Two adult males from Nicaragua 69.7 56.5 19.5 20.7 13
    Ten adult males from Costa Rica 69.2 54.3 19.3 20.7 13.2
    Two adult males from Panamá 70 53.2 19.2 19.7 12.7
    Two adult males from Colombia (Bogotá) 70.7 57 17 22 14.5
    Ten adult males (E. p. punctatus) from Columbia 71 54.7 19.2 21.3 13
    One adult male (E. p. punctatus) from Cayenne 69.5 53 17.5 22 14
    Ten adult males (E. p. punctatus) from eastern Brazil 70.9 52.7 17 21.4 12.8
    females
    Two adult females from Honduras 70 56 19.2 20.7 13.5
    Two adult females from Nicaragua 68.2 54.5 18.7 20.2 12.7
    Ten adult females from Costa Rica 67.1 53.3 18.7 20.9 13.6
    Seven adult females from Panamá 67.2 54.7 18.9 21.4 12.8
    Six adult females {E. p. punctatus) from Colombia 67.9 55 19.3 21.2 13.1
    Two adult females {E. p. punctatus) from Venezuela 64.5 51.5 17.5 21.2 13
    One adult female {E. p. punctatus) from Brazil (Bahia) 69 58 18 24.5 14.5