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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.
Adult male. — Length (skins), 128-149 (137); wing, 59.5-70.5 (63.8); tail, 58.5-65 (61.6); culmen, 12-15.5 (13.9); tarsus, 18.5-20 (19.1); middle toe, 15-16 (15.7).[1]
Adult female. — Length (skins), 125-144 (133); wing, 57.5-65.5 (61.2); tail, 55.5-65 (59.3); culmen, 13-15.5 (14.3); tarsus, 18-19.5 (18.9); middle toe, 14.5-16 (15.5).[2]
Highlands of Costa Rica (San José; Rancho Redondo de San José; San Mateo; Rio Súcio; Quebrada Honda; Birrís, Azahár, and La Estrella, Cartago; La Hondura; Carrillo; Volcán de Irazú; Guayabo; Barranca; Coliblanco; Turrialba; Laguária; Santa Maria de Dota) and western Panamá (Cordillera de Tolé; Cordillera del Chucu; Volcán de Chiriquí, 7,000-7,700 ft.; Boquete; Chitra; Calobre; Calovévora).
- Margarornis brunnescens (not of Sclater, 1856) Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 143 (Cordillera de Tolé, Verágua, Panamá; crit.); 1870, 192 (Chitra and Cordillera del Chucu, Verágua, Panamá; crit.). — Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., ix, 1868, 106 (San José, Rancho Redondo, Barranca, San Mateo, and Birrís, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. für Orn., 1869, 304 (Costa Rica). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 415 (Rio Súcio, Costa Rica). — Zeledón, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 113 (Turrialba, Costa Rica). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 123, part (Rancho Redondo, Costa Rica; Calovévora, Panamá). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 170, pl. 47, fig. 2, part (San José, Quebrada Honda, Rancho Redondo, Barranca, San Mateo, Birrís, and Rio Súcio, Costa Rica; Chiriquí, Chitra, Tolé, Cordillera del Chucu, Calovévora, and Calobre, Panamá).
- [Margarornis] brunnescens Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 67, part.
- [Sittasomus] brunnescens Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 180, no. 2476.
- Premnoplex brunnescens Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 46 (Boquete and Volcan de Chiriquí, 4,000-7,700 ft., Panamá). — Ferry, Pub. 146, Field Mus. N. H., orn. ser., i, no. 6, 1910, 270 (Guayabo and Coliblanco, Costa Rica).
- ↑ Fourteen specimens.
- ↑ Seventeen specimens.
Locality. Wing. Tall. Culmen. Tarsus. Middle
toe.males. Ten adult males from Costa Rica 63.1 61.5 13.6 19.1 15.7 Four adult males from western Panamá (Chiriquí) 65.6 61.8 15 19.1 15.7 Three adult males (P. b. coloralus) from northeastern Colombia (Santa Marta) 61.2 66.7 15.8 19.3 15.8 females. Ten adult females from Costa Rica 60.8 59.3 14.2 18.9 15.7 Seven adult females from western Panamá (Chiriquí) 61.6 59.2 14.6 18.9 15.2 One adult female (P. b. brunnescens) from northwestern Colombia 60 53 15 19.5 16 Three adult females (P. b. coloratus) from northeastern Colombia 59.5 55.5 15.5 19.2 15.7
