258 PERISTERIDA. 
Leptoptila fulviventris brachyptera, A. O. U. Check-l. N. Aner. Birds, 2nd ed. p. 122° ; Chapm. 
Bull. Amer. Mus. viii. p. 287°; x. p. 857; Nelson, N. Amer. Faun. no. 14, p. 36°. 
Leptoptila albifrons, Scl. (nec Bp.), P. Z. 8. 1857, p. 214°; 1859, pp. 368°, 391"; 1864, p. 178 ee 
Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 222”; P.Z. S. 1870, p. 838"; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. | 
p. 305%; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 44°; Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, ii. p. 827: 
Sanchez, An. Mus. Nac. Mex. i. p. 105 (part.) *; Sumichrast, La Nat. v. p. 232”. 
Achmoptila albifrons (nec Bp.), Coues, Bull. U. 8. Surv. Terr. iv. p. 48%; Ridgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. 
Mus. i. p. 158”. 
Engyptila albifrons, Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. p. 100”; Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 
ix. p. 175” ; Bendire, Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, p. 144, t. 2. fig. 22 9, 
Engyptila verreauxi (nec Bp.), Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. pp. 378”, 889”, 396”. 
Engyptila vinaceifulva, Lawr. Aun. N. Y. Acad. Sci. ili. p. 270”. 
Engyptila sp., Jouy, Pr. U. 8. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 789”. 
Supra brunnea, vix olivascens, alis dorso concoloribus; remigibus sepiariis, anguste albido marginatis ; 
secundariis intimis et rectricibus medianis dorso concoloribus, harum lateralibus intus et apicem versus 
nigricantibus, pallide brunneo terminatis, externis nigris late albo terminaliter fasciatis; fronte et loris 
albidis, vix vinaceo tinctis; pileo postico, collo postico et laterali metallice lilacinis, interdum viridi 
vel senco-chalybeo nitentibus, interscapulio summo paullo viridi adumbrato; facie laterali et’ corpore 
subtus pallide vinaceis, gula summa alba, pectore imo pallidiore; abdomine et subcaudalibus albis; 
hypochondriis imis brunnescentibus, vix ochraceo lavatis ; subalaribus et axillaribus cum remigibus intus 
castaneis: rostro nigro, regione nuda orbitali cerulescente ; pedibus coccineis; iride alba. Long. tota 
circa 10°8, ale 5-7, caudex 5:0, culm. 0°9, tarsi 1-2. (Descr. maris ex San Geronimo, Vera Paz. Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari similis, sed sordidior, rectricum fasciis albis terminalibus angustioribus. Long. tota circa 9°6, ale 5°55. 
(Descr. feminz ex Coatepec. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Norta America, valley of the Lower Rio Grande in ‘Texas °.—Mexico, between 
Matamoros and Camargo (J‘Call?), Nuevo Leon, Rio Salado, Estancia Mon- 
terey, Hacienda de lcs Escobas, Pesqueria Grande, Rio Gila, Monte Morelos 
(Armstrong *), Soto La Marina, Aldama, Tampico, ‘Tamaulipas, San Blas, 
Santiago, Tepic, Lake Chapala, ‘Tehuantepec (J¢rchardson*), Sonora*, Sierra 
Madre from Chihuahua to Jalisco*4, Santiago, Colima‘, Beltran 4 (Lloyd), 
Mazatlan (Grayson '>), Jalisco, Barranca (Jouy?°), Acapulco, 'Teapa (Mrs. H. H. 
Smith*), city of Mexico (White 2), woods of both coasts 19, Santa Efigenia 1%, 
‘Tehuantepec city 1° (Sumichrast), Cuesta de Misantla (. D. G. & Trujillo+), 
Vega del Cazadero, Sochiapa (Zrujillo+), Rancho del Ahuehuete, Puebla 23, 
Coatepec‘4, Plan del Rio, Huatusco (Ferrari-Perez), Playa Vicente (Boucard 11, 
Trujillo *), Orizaba (Bottert *), Jalapa (de Oca !°, Chapman"), Yucatan (Gaumer *), 
Chichén-Itzé (Chapman ®); Honpuras, San Pedro (Whitely 14); Guatemata, San 
Gerénimo, Duefias, Barranco Hondo, Retalhuleu, and Pacific coast (0. S. & 
F. D. G.*8), Toliman, Panajachel (Richardson *); Satvapor, La Libertad (Richard- 
son4); Nicaragua, Volcan del Chinandega (Richardson *), Ometépe I. °’, Sucuyd 28, 
Lake of Nicaragua, San Juan del Sur, Pacific coast 2° (Nutting). 
In the west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and at Mazatlan, Grayson found many 
nests of this bird. 
