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to Vela«c'o') and southward over the coast plain of Tamaulipa.s (Mata- 

 nioras, Alta Mira, etc.), Nuevo Leon (Montere}), and Vera Cruz 

 (Tlalcotalpam, Guiterrez, Zamara, etc.), to Yucatan (incUiding- island 

 of Cozumel), British Honduras (Belize), and eastern Guatemala (Lake 

 Peten, Duenas?, Coban?); in winter, south to eastern Nicaragua (San 

 Carlos) and Costa Rica (Rio Frio). 



Ageheuf: phceniceus (not Oriolns jiliceniceuH Linnpeus) Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1859, 58 (Belize, British Honthiias; Peten, e. Guatemala). — (?) Scla- 

 TER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 205 (Tlalcotalpam, Vera Cruz), (?) 1859, 

 381 (Oaxaca); Ibis, 1884, 10, part; Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., xi, 1886, 340, part 

 (n. Yucatan; Cozumel I.; Belize; Lake Peten, (Tuatemala; Duenas, Guate- 

 mala?; Bel^edero, w. Costa Rica?). — (?) iScl.\ter and 8.\lvin, Ibis, 1859, 19 

 (Duenas, Guatemala). — (?) Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 303 (Costa 

 Rica).— Sexnett, Bull. U. S. Geol. and Geog. Surv. Terr., iv, 1878, 24 

 (Lower Rio Grande, Texas; descr. nest and eggs); v, 1879, 397 (lower Rio 

 Grande).— Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1879, 133 (Fort Brown, Texas, 

 breeding). ^Nekrling, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 166 (s. e. Texas, 

 breeding).— (?) Nutting, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus:, v, 1882, 392 (LaPalma, w. 

 Costa Rica). — BoucArd, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 446 (n. Yucatan). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ain., Aves, i, 1887, 453(Tlalcotal])am, Vera 

 Cruz; Oaxaca?; n. Yucatan; Cozumel; Belize; Peten, Coban?, and Duenas?, 

 Guatemala; La Palma, Bebedero, and Nicoya, w. Costa Rica?). 



(?) Agelieus phaenicens Boucard, Liste Ois. Guatemala, 1878, 36, part. 



Agelams phmmceus Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1866, 10, part (Yucatan; 

 crit. ). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 104 (Bebedero and Nicoya, w. 

 Costa Rica). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 10. — Hancock, Bull. 

 Ridgw. Orn. Club, no. 2, 1887, 18 (Corpus Christi, Texas).— Stone, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1890,208 (Progreso, Yucatan).— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1892, 108 (Nueces Bay, Texas, breeding). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 496 (Rio Frio, e. Costa Rica; San Carlos, Nicaragua). — 

 Singley, Rep. Geol. Surv. Texas, 1894, 371 (Corpus Christi and Hidalgo, 

 breeding). — Carroll, Auk, xvii, 1900, 344 (Refugio Co., Texas breeding). 



do not differ materially, if at all, in coloration, 

 follows: 



Average measurements are as 



^All sjiecimens seen by me from Velasco and southward are of this form. 



