CICCABA, . 27 
Eastern Mexican State of Tamaulipas, and thence spreads over the whole of Central 
America to Colombia and Venezuela; C. sguamulata is confined to Western Mexico 
from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to the State of Sinaloa. These two species have four 
or five allies in South America, occupying the greater portion of the tropical part of 
that continent. 
A. Ptilosis nigra, albo transfasciata. 
1. Ciccaba nigrolineata. 
Ciccaba huhula, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 96 (nec Daudin) ’. 
Syrnium nigrolineatum, Scl. Trans. Z. 8. iv. p. 268, t. 63°; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. li. p. 276°; 
| Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 238%. 
Ciccaba nigrolineata, Scl. P.Z. 8. 1859, p. 131°; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 195°; P. Z.S. 1870, p. 216"; 
Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p.132*; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 37°; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 
1869, p. 366°; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 164”. 
Supra nigra, alis et dorso vix brunneo tinctis; uropygio anguste albo transfasciato, cervice postica et corpore 
toto subtus albis, nigro frequenter transfasciatis, superciliis albo maculatis ; alis extus albo anguste fasciatis, 
facie et mento nigris; cauda nigra, albo quadrifasciata; tibiis albo et nigro crebre fasciatis : rostro 
et digitis flavis. Long. tota circa 15:0, ale 10-5, caude 6:5, tarsi 2°3. (Descr. exemp]. ex Tapana, 
Tehuantepec. Mus. nostr.) 
Juv. Capite summo et dorso toto albis, nigro, sicut corpore subtus, transfasciatis. 
Hab. Muxtco ( Verreaua 5), Jalapa (Ferrari-Perez 1), Tapana, Sta. Efigenia*, Cacoprieto*, 
Tehuantepec city ® (F. Sumichrast), Tapana (Mus. Boston); British Honpuras, Cayo 
(Blancaneaux) ; Guatemata (mus. Rothschild), Mazatenango (Dr. Bernoulli ®), 
Cahabon (Champion); Nicaraaua, Mombacho (W. B. Richardson); Costa Rica, 
San José (v. Frantzius 8); Panama, Boquete de Chitra (Arcé 7).—CoLomBIA 
(Mus. Brit.). | 
Ciccaba nigrolineata belongs to a small but peculiar section of the genus distinguished 
by their black-and-white plumage, unrelieved by any other colour. It has a near ally 
in C. huhula of South America, to which the first specimens procured were attributed’, 
but was soon after separated by Mr. Sclater and figured in the ‘ Transactions of the 
Zoological Society of London’?. The chief points of difference are its uniform dark 
back and head, on which are no narrow white cross-bands, and by the under surface 
being white with black cross-bands instead of the reverse, as in C. huhula. 
Though widely distributed in our region, it is nowhere common, and specimens have 
reached us at rare intervals. The original type formed part of a collection received by 
Verreaux from some part of Mexico2; Don Fernando Ferrari-Perez found it at Jalapa, 
and Sumichrast in several instances on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. M. Blancaneaux 
sent us a skin from Cayo, on the Belize river, in British Honduras. In Guatemala we 
have only two records of it. In one case the late Dr. Bernoulli gave us two specimens 
which he had procured near the village of Mazatenango, in the Costa Grande, where 
he was then living. Another came from the other side of the country, from Cahabon, 
where it was obtained by Mr. Champion during his entomological journey to that part 
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