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Hab. Honvvras, Segovia River (Townsend '); Nicaragua, Rio Escondido (Richmond 2) ; 
? Panama, Laguna de Pita (esta *). 
We have not seen a specimen of 7. excellens, of which Mr. Ridgway has given a 
long description }, nor are we able to extract any diagnostic characters from his account. 
He says that it is of the same group as Tigrisoma brasiliense (= T. lineatum of this 
work) and 7. salmoni, “with a feathered stripe along the median line of the chin 
and throat,” and therefore different from 7. cabanisi. 
We must therefore await further material before we can decide on the proper 
status of this species. 
3. Tigrisoma cabanisi. 
Tigrisoma tigrinum (nec Gm.), Scl. P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 859°; Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 151°; Sel. 
P. Z. S. 1860, p. 253°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 226°; Salv. Ibis, 1865, p. 191°. 
Tigrisoma brasiliense (nec Linn.), Moore, P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 63°. 
Tigrisoma cabanisi, Heine, J. f. Orn. 1859, p. 4077; Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 205"; P. Z. 8. 1870, 
p. 218°; Cat. Strick]. Coll. p. 520°; Ibis, 1889, p. 376 ™; Sel. & Salv. P. Z. 8. 1867, 
p. 280”; iid. Exot. Orn. p.95, t.48”; Lawr. Aun. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 142"; Mem. Bost. Soc. 
N. H. ii. p. 811"; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 49°; v. Frantz. J.f Orn. 1869, p. 376"; 
Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 233%; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 406"; vi. p. 879”; 
Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 170”; Jouy, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 788”; 
Underwood, Ibis, 1896, p. 450 ~°. 
Botaurus cabanisi, Finsch, Abh. nat. Ver. Brem. 1870, p. 357 *; Reichen. J. f. Orn. 1877, p. 251”. 
Heterocnus cabanisi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 198”. 
Supra olivascenti-brunneum, plumis singulis sordide ochrascenti-fulvo anguste vermiculatim transfasciatis et 
medialiter nigro lineatis; remigibus nigricantibus, extus schistaceo lavatis et anguste albo terminatis, 
secundariis extus brunneo vermiculatis et dorso concoloribus ; pileo cristato nigro; facie laterali cinerea, 
fascia nigra suboculari per latera gule nude producta et albo variegata; collo toto ochraceo nigroque 
regulariter transfasciato; gutture medio albo, plumis nonnullis externe schistaceis vel rufis, ceteris nigro 
transfasciatis collo concoloribus; corpore reliquo subtus saturate ferrugineo, abdomine pallidiore ; tibiis 
grisescentibus ; subcaudalibus schistaceis; subalaribus et axillaribus schistaceis, albo transtfasciatis, 
tectricibus minoribus ochraceo fasciatis: rostro nigro, mandibula virescenti-flava; orbitis gulaque nudis 
virescentibus ; pedibus viridescentibus; iride flava. Long. tota circa 33:5, ale 14:5, caude 5:2, 
culm, 4:35, tarsi 4.45. (Descr. maris adulti ex Presidio, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
2 ad. mari similis. Long. tota circa 33°5, ale 13-7. (Descr. femins ex Presidio. Mus. nostr.) 
Juv. Supra nigricans, ochraceo late transfasciatum ; remigibus nigris, albo externe maculatis, intus fasciatis, 
secundariis intimis ochraceo fasciatis ; cauda nigra, regulariter albo anguste transfasciata ; pileo colloque 
undique cum corpore subtus toto ochraceis, regulariter nigro transfasciatis ; subalaribus, axillaribus et 
remigibus intus nigris albo transfasciatis. (Descr. av. juv. ex Presidio. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Mazatlan (Grayson © 28), Presidio de Mazatlan (Forrer 7°), Rio Verde, 
Hacienda Angostura, San Luis Potosi (Jouy 22), Nuevo Leon (Armstrong *®), San 
Blas, ‘Tepic, Tamaulipas, Tampico, Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria (Richard 
son 26), Vera Cruz (Sallé*), Vega del Cazadero, Vera Cruz (Zryjillo”), Vega 
del Alatorre 2!, Misantla2* (Merrari-Perez), Tapana, Chihuitan, Santa Efigenia, 
Tehuantepec city, Venta Salada (Sumichrast 1°), Tizimin, N. Yucatan 7°, Cozumel I." 
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