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Ana, Veracruz; Santa Efigenia and Cacoprieto, Oaxaca ; Cozumel Island; 

 Belize River, British Honduras; Omoa, Honduras; Sucuya and Omotepe, 

 Nicaragua; La Palma de Nicoya and Rio Frio, Costa Rica). 



Aramus scolopacetis (not Ardea scolopacea Gmelin) Moorb, Proc. Zool. Sbc. 

 London, 1859, 64 (Belize River, British Honduras; near Omoa, Honduras). — 

 ScLATER and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 227 (Belize; Omoa).— Salvin, Ibis, 1870, 116 

 (Costa Rica). 



[Notherodms] scolopaceus Heine and Reiohenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 

 321, part (Mexico). 



Aramus vociferns American Oknithologists' Union, Auk. xxv, 1908, 364, part; 

 Checklist North Amer. Birds, ed. 3, 1910, 101, part (Texas).— Cakrikeb, Ann. 

 Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 425 (Bolson, Bebedero, La Palma de Nicoya, and 

 Guanacaste, Costa Rica. ) —Cooke, U. S. Dept. Agr. Bull. 128, 1914, 13, fig. 4, 

 part (range). — Griscom and Crosby, Auk. xlii, 1925, 527 (Brownsville, s. 

 Texas). 



Aramus vociferus subsp. Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., No. 235, 1926, 8 (e. Quintana 

 Roo, Yucatan). 



Aramus giganteus American Ornithologists' Union, Checklist North Amer. 

 Birds, 1886, and ed. 2, 1895, No. 207, part (Central America). — Ferraei -Perez, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 177 (Santa Ana, Veracruz). — Zeledon, Anal. 

 Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1888, 131 (Costa Rica ) .—Salvin, Ibis, 1889, 378 

 (Oozumel Island, Yucatan). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 

 528 (Rio Frio, Costa Rica).— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 1896-97 

 (1899), 219 (Belize, British Honduras).— Strecker, Baylor Univ. Bull. 15, 

 1912, 18 (occasional, coast of Texas). 



Airamus^ giganteus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 141, part. — 

 RiDGVs^AY, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 136, part (Gulf of Mexico to Costa 

 Rica). 



Aramus scolopaceus, var. giganteus Lawbence, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 4, 1876, 49 

 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). 



Aramus holostictus Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 227 (Belize; Omoa). — Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1870, 116 (Costa Rica). 



Aramus vociferus holostictus Miller (W. DeW.) and Griscom, Amer. Mus. Nov., 

 No. 25, 1921, 12, 13, part (Brownsville, Tex.; e. Mexico south to Panama). — 

 Oberholser, Auk. xl, 1923, 678 (Texas). 



Aramus pictus dolosus Peters, Occ. Papers Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v. 1925, 144 

 (Bolson, Costa Rica; orig. descr. ; tax.; range) ; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixix, 

 1929, 409 (Martinez Creek, west of Tela, Honduras, habits; crit.) — Bangs, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixx, 1930, 179 (type specimen in Mus. Comp. Zool.). — 

 Sassi, Temminckia, iii, 1938, 306 (Costa Rica, Bebedero, 6 specimens; 

 meas. ; crit.). 



Aramus scolopaceus dolosus Peters, Checklist, Birds of "World, 11, 1934, 155. — 

 Deignan, Auk. liii, 1936, 188 (specimen. La Ceiba, Honduras; colors of soft 

 parts). — van Rossem, Birds El Salvador, 1938, 158 (El Salvador, Barra de 

 Santiago ; San Sebastian ; rare in spring and summer in the mangroves and 

 costal swampy forests; colors of soft parts). 



ARAMUS SCOLOPACEUS PICTUS (Meyer) 

 Florida Limpkin 



Adult (sexes alike). — Entire plumage except the chin and upper 

 throat olive-brown to ravt^ umber, darkest on the hind neck, inter- 

 scapulars, and back; much marked with white as follows: Forehead 



