to vandyke brown), usually with more or less distinct spots or broad streaks of blackish or dusky along; outer edge, some of the brown feathers sometimes margined with whitish; under tail-coverts brown, tipped or margined with whitish or buffy; chin, throat, chest, breast, and abdomen immaculate white; maxilla brownish black, paler (sometimes whitish) terminally and along tomia; mandible dull whitish or pale dull yellowish (in dried skins), usually dusky basally; legs and feet horn color (in dried skins).
Adult male. — Length (skins), 126-143 (135); wing, 71-78 (75.1); tail, 41.5-49.5 (45.9); culmen, 17-19 (18.2); tarsus, 25.5-27.5 (26.7); middle toe, 15.5-18.5 (17.4).[1]
Adult female. — Length (skins), 126-138.5 (132); wing, 70-75.5 (72.9); tail, 43-46.5 (44.4); culmen, 17-19 (17.3); tarsus, 25.5-27.5 (26.6); middle toe, 16-18.5 (17.6).[2]
Immature male. — Similar to adults but chest mostly light mummy brown, and white of breast, etc., more or less intermixed with the same.
Honduras (Santa Ana; Chaloma), Nicaragua (Chontales; Rio Escondido; San Emilis, Lake Nicaragua), Costa Rica (Angostura; Navarro de Cartago; La Balsa; Jiménez; San José; Pacuare; San Carlos; Boruca; El Generál; Pozo del Rio Grande; Pozo Reál de Tárraba; Pozo Azúl de Pirrís; Volcán de Turrialba; El Hogár; Guápiles; Cuábre; La Florída; La Cristina; La Vijágua) and western Panamá (Divala; Volcan de Chiriquí; Boquete).
- Pithys bicolor (not of Lawrence, 1863) Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1868, 109 (Angostura, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. für Orn., 1869, 306 (Costa Rica). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 195 (Volcan de Chiriquí and Bugaba, Panamá; crit.). — Sclater, Ibis, 1873, 373 (Chontales, Nicaragua); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 296, part (Bugaba and Volcan de Chiriquí, Panamá; La Balsa, Costa Rica; Chontales, Nicaragua). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 62 (San Carlos, Costa Rica). — Zeledón, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 115 (Navarro de Cartago, Costa Rica). — Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 221 (Chaloma, Honduras).
- ↑ Nineteen specimens.
- ↑ Thirteen specimens.
Locality. Wing. Tall. Culmen. Tarsus. Middle
toe.males. Two adult males from Honduras 73.2 45.2 19 25.5 18 One adult male from Nicaragua 74 44.5 18 27 18 Ten adult males from Costa Rica 76 45.2 18.1 26.8 17.3 Six adult males from western Panamá 74.2 46.5 18.4 26.6 17.2 females. One adult female from Nicaragua 75.5 46 18.5 25.5 17 Ten adult females from Costa Rica 72.4 44.2 17.6 26.6 17.5 Two adult females from western Panamá 73.7 44.5 18.5 26.7 18.2
