BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



853 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 146-174 (168); wing, 83-94 (88.1); 

 tail, 62-78.5 (66.4); exposed culmen, 15-19 (17.4); tarsus, 19.5-23 

 (21.5); middle toe, 12-14.5 (13. 3). « 



Southern Tamaulipas, on coast plain (Tampico; Alta Mira) and 

 lowlands of Vera Cruz (Tlalcotalpan; Rio San Juan; Buena Vista; 

 Pasa Nueva; Otatitlan; San Andreas Tuxtla; Cordova; Rivera) 

 through Oaxaca (Cacoprieto; Tuxtepec), Tabasco (Frontera) and 

 Chiapas (Tonala) to Guatemala (Coban; Choctum; Cajabon; Choa- 

 cus; I'^spantan, Quitche; Escuintla) and British Honduras (in the 

 last two countries grading into P. a. hypophseus, and on Pacific slope 

 of Guatemala into P. o. latirostris) .^ 



(?) [Pachyramphus] minor (not Querula minor Lesson) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i 

 1850, 180, part (Mexico). 



Pachyrhamphus aglaise (not PachyrhyncJius aglaise Lafresnaye) Sclater and Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1859, 124 (Cajabon, Guatemala). — Owen, Ibis, 1861, 64, pi. 2, fig. 4 (fig. 

 of egg; Clioacus, Guatemala; descr. nest and eggs). 



Platypsaris aglaise Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 385 (Playa Vicente, s. 

 Vera Cruz; crit.). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1896, 629 (Alta 

 Mira, s. Tamaulipas). 



P[latypsaris] aglaise Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 324, part. 



[Platypsaris] aglaise Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 163, part. 



Hadrostomus aglaise (not of Cabanis and Heine) Elliot, Ibis, Oct., 1859, 394 

 (crit.).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 323 (Guatemala).— Ferrari- 

 Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 156, part (Yanhuitlan?, Oaxaca).— 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 335, part (Tonala, Chiapas; Caco- 

 prieto, Oaxaca; Choctum, Retalhuleu, Chisec, and Volcan de Fuego, Guate- 

 mala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1890, 121. part 

 (localities in Oaxaca, Tabasco, Chiapas, and Guatemala). 



^ Fifteen specimens. 



Many Guatemala specimens have the rose color of the throat much reduced in 

 extent, while in some it is obsolete, as is also the case with one from British Honduras; 

 and as a rule both sexes (females especially) are somewhat more intensely colored 

 than those from Mexico. The Guatemalan series consists, in fact, distinctly for the 

 most part, of intergrades between P. a. sumichrasii and P. a. hypophxus. 



b I am unable to allocate certain localities in Guatemala, Oaxaca, and Vera Cruz 

 mentioned in the Biologia Centrali- Americana, {Aves, ii, 122) for the reason that some 

 of them I can not find on maps available to me, while in other cases it would be 

 necessary to see specimens beiore their correct identification could be made. 



