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three skins in the Fish and Wildlife Service collection obtained by 

 Nelson and Goldman at Teapa in south-central Tabasco, near the Chi- 

 apas boundary, showed an approach to percautus in the paleness of the 

 underparts. On examination of these specimens again with the new 

 material from the present collection, I consider that they should be 

 called percautus, as should two other specimens in the National Mu- 

 seum that come from Buena Vista and Potrero, Veracruz, the first 

 locality being to the west of Tres Zapotes and the second near Cordoba. 

 This gives a logical distribution, since it makes percautus the most 

 northern race of its species, extending from southern Veracruz to 

 northern Peten, while robustus ranges on the Caribbean slope from 

 Choctum and Nebaj, in east central Guatemala, south to Nicaragua. 



CRYPTURELLUS SOUI MESERYTHRUS (Sclater) 



Tinamus meserythrus P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859 (Feb. I860), 

 p. 392 (Playa Vicente, Veracruz). 



Carriker secured a female near camp at Tres Zapotes on February 

 26 and a pair at about 800 feet elevation on Cerro de Tuxtla on May 

 8, 1940. The species seemed to be fairly common in the wooded low- 

 lands through this region but was so secretive that it was seldom 

 seen. During my own stay I heard tinamous calling daily, often im- 

 mediately adjacent to our houses at camp, and on two or three oc- 

 casions had indistinct glimpses of the birds along the trails. Never, 

 however, did I secure a shot. Carriker notes that they rarely flush, 

 usually hiding when approached. He reports that the two taken on 

 May 8 were a breeding pair and that the female apparently had 

 just completed laying. 



CRYPTURELLUS CINNAMOMEUS SALLAEI (Bonaparte) 



Nothocernus (sic) sallaei Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. Paris, vol. 42, 

 1856, p. 954 (Cordoba, Veracruz). 



Carriker secured a male in forest near Hueyapa on March 27, 1940. 



This bird agrees with a small series taken by Nelson and Gold- 

 man on May 3 and 4, 1894, and also with an old skin in the U. S. 

 National Museum from Mirador near Veracruz. While Peters in his 

 Check-list (vol. 1, p. 21) has included birds from this area under true 

 cinnamomeus, it appears that Conover 4 and Brodkorb 5 are correct 

 in calling sallaei a distinct race. The series before me stands out defi- 

 nitely from other tinamous of this group. 



As for the type locality of this form, Bonaparte says of it "du 

 Mexique," but continues in a footnote to explain that he has named 

 it for Auguste Salle from a fine collection obtained by that traveler, 



4 Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 46, June 30, 1933, p. 114. 



5 Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 401, Mar. 1, 1939, p. 3. 



