ITO XeiL' Species of J^irds from Me.rico. 



Bubo virglnianus mayensis new subspecies. Yucuiku Horned Owl. 



Type Xo. 107,727, 9 ad.. U. S. National Museum, Biological Survey 

 collection, from Chicken Itza, Yucatan, Mexico. Collected February 

 1, 1901, by E. W. Nei.son and E. A. (ioldman. 



Dutribution. — Peninsula of Yucatan. 



Snbspecifir rharariers. — Most like B. Tirginianus pallescens but much 

 smaller with less clear gray and more dingy fulvous suffusion on entire 

 dorsal surface including tail: sides of body, Hanks and under tail coverts 

 rather regularly barred with narroAv dark bands, not crowded near tips 

 of feathers as usual in pnllesi'cn.s; sides of flanks with concealed sutfu- 

 sionof dull butl'y. middle of breast and belly dull white: lower half of 

 tarsus and feet dull white without markings. 



Dimensions of type. — Wing 335: tail 178: culmen 44: tarsus (Hi. 



Remarks. — This is the smallest of the subspecies of Bubo rirginianus 

 and is a pale race probably limited to the arid part of the peninsida of 

 Yucatan. 



Crax chapmani new species. ('ha[)mau's Curassow. 



Type 'So. 1()7.;!70, 9 ad., U. iS. National Museum, Biological Survey 

 collection, from Puerto Morelos, Eastern Yucatan, Mexico. Collected 

 March 28, 1901, by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman. 



Distribution. — Heavy forests of southern Campeche and southern and 

 eastern Y'ucatan, Mexico: probably ranging thence into adjacent parts 

 of Belize and Guatemala. 



Description of type. — Head and throat dull white thickly and finely 

 speckled with black on lores and around eyes; sides of crown more 

 coarsely and sparingly black spotted; crest white with narrow black 

 tips finely bordered with white: bases of crest feathers on front of crown 

 with small black spots or incomplete bars: posteriorly crest feathers 

 only marked at ba.se with fine dark shafts or shaft streaks: neck all 

 around from head to body strongly barred black and white — black bars 

 broadest, and white bars on underside of neck more or less edged with 

 butfy; shoulders, upper surface of wings and tail broadly and regularlj' 

 barred with broad bands of blackish brown and slightly narrower bands 

 of golden buffy; dark bars approaching black on shoulders and on outer 

 half of tail; buffy bars with a decided grayish cast on outer half of tail: 

 primaries mainly butfy, paler than same color on secondaries and more 

 narrowly and irregularly barred and spotted with blackish and reddish 

 brown; middle of back and rump narrowly barred with same colors as 

 secondaries and tail; entire underparts including breast, abdomen, sides 

 of body, Hanks, thighs and undertail coverts uniform ochraceous butfy 

 — a few narrow irregularlj- placed transverse blackish brown marks oc- 

 curring on buffy feathers of fore breast; under side of tail black with 

 narrow golden buffy transverse bars. 



Dimensions oftypc.—^N'mg 380; tail 368; culmen 51; tarsus 116. 



