44 Bangs and Peck — Rare and New Birds from British Honduras. 



but slightly smaller, with smaller feet and bill; wings much less marked 

 with white; the brown portions of plumage-wings, back, rump, etc., much 

 darker (seal brown in the new form, mummy brown in trueX. maculatus) . 



Measurements. — Type (sex nut determined). Wing, 121; tail, 43; tar- 

 sus, 40; middle ten-, without claw, '.VJ.o; culmen, 48. 



Remarks. — Although the type is the only example of the spotted rail 

 from Central America that we know of, there can he no doubt that it 

 represents a form well differentiated from the Smith American bird. The 

 much darker color of the brown parts is very striking. ( hir skin is in worn 

 summer plumage, and all the white markings are reduced in size from 

 wearing away of the tips of the feathers, so that it is difficult to tell what 

 real difference^ there are in this respect, but certainly the wings are much 

 less marked with white. 



A rail of this sort occurs in Cuba and in Jamaica, but just what these 

 island birds are like remains to be seen. 



Bubo magallanicus mayensis (Nelson). 



A young male, with some traces of the downy first plumage still remain- 

 ing, was taken in the Manatee District May 20, 1U06. This appears to he 

 the second known example of this small pale race of the Great horned owl, 

 the range of which is thus extended from Yucatan to British Honduras. 

 The skin (No. 19,913 Bangs coll. ) was carefully compared with the type 

 by Nelson. 



Antrostomus badius sp. nov. 



Type (and only specimen) from the Toledo District, British Honduras. 

 C? adult, No. 19,990, coll. of E. A. and 0. Bangs. Collected January 2, 

 1907, by Morton E. Peck. 



Characters. — In general resembling^, salvini Hartert of Yucatan, hut 

 entire body much more reddish or rusty-buff; chin and throat more heavily 

 barred— the barring dark rusty-buff; abdomen and crissum paler; a broad 

 band, from lores, through eyes, across ear coverts and forming a collar 

 around hind neck dark, rich golden buff — much brighter and more 

 strongly marked than in salvini] tips of outer rectrices narrowing to a 

 blunt point instead of broad and rounded as in salvini, and with much 

 narrower, or smaller, huffy tips. 



Measurements. — Type, cT adult. Wing, 105; tail, L20; tarsus, 17.5; ex- 

 posed culmen, 15.5. 



Remarks. — This bird, of which a single adult male was taken, repre- 

 sents a species apparently quite distinct from J. salvini though more 

 nearly related to it than to any other .Mexican or Central American form, 

 besides differing in the details of color, markings, etc. , pointed out above, 

 the general coloration of A. badius is very decidedly rusty or reddish 

 brown, whereas .1. salvini is of a grayish-brown general coloration. 



Pachyrhamphus major itzensis Nelson. 



A young male in a plumage similar to that of the adult female was taken 

 in the Toledo District, January 24, L907. 



This specimen is even smaller and paler than the type, and the range 

 of the form must be extended to include British Honduras. 



