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Rh 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).

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).

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), Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1868, 109 (Angostura, Costa Rica). — , Journ. für Orn., 1869, 306 (Costa Rica). — , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 195 (Volcan de Chiriquí and Bugaba, Panamá; crit.). — , 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). — , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 62 (San Carlos, Costa Rica). — , Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 115 (Navarro de Cartago, Costa Rica). — , Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 221 (Chaloma, Honduras).