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ee. Vent blackish. 



/. With a broad patch of white feathers on abdomen. 

 g. Larger, culmen of males averaging 72 mm. 



Aramides cajanea vanrossemi (jj. 116) 

 gg. Smaller, culmen of males averaging 61 mm. 



Aramides cajanea albiventris (p. 117) 

 //. With little or no white on abdomen. 



g. With a little white on posterior border of brownish upper abdomen. 

 h. Mantle faintly indicated- Aramides cajanea mexicana (p. 115) 

 lih. Mantle conspicuous. 



i. Mantle rufescent, with no olive wash. 



Aramides cajanea plumbeicollis (p. 119) 

 it. Mantle rufescent mixed with olive. 



Aramides cajanea pacifica (p. 118) 

 gg. With no white on abdomen. 

 h. Smaller, wing under 170 mm. 



Aramides cajanea latens (p. 123) 

 hli. Larger, wing over 170 mm. 



Aramides cajanea cajanea (p. 120) 



ARAMIDES CAJANEA MEXICANA Bangs 



Mexican Wood-eail 



Adult (sexes alike). — Similar to that of Aramides cajanea cajanea 

 but with a faint indication of tawny-buffy on the mantle, the olive of 

 the upper back, scapulars, and upper wing coverts averaging slightly 

 more grayish, less yellowish olive; occiput more extensively and 

 brighter auburn; breast, sides, and upper abdomen paler — tawny-cin- 

 namon to pale buckthorn brown, and with the posterior abdominal 

 feathers of this color paler — pale cinnamon-buff, the median ones prac- 

 tically white at their tips, producing the effect of a narrow whitish 

 hind margin separating the brown area from the black lower abdomen ; 

 remiges slightly duskier and with the dusky tips more extensive, "iris 

 reddish; basal half of bill reddish, terminal half greenish; feet car- 

 mine" (Lawrence). 



Juvenal feiiwle}'^ — Similar to adult but with no white on the ab- 

 domen, the black of the thighs and lower abdomen replaced by dark 

 mouse gray and the feathers of the lower middle abdomen broadly 

 tipped with tawny-cinnamon ; throat streaked or longitudinally spotted 

 with deep auburn as is also the top of the head (the auburn feathers 

 being the remnants of the natal down). 



Natal down. — On head and throat deep auburn; body downs not 

 known. 



Adult male.—Wmg 184r-192 (187.5) ; tail 56.5-58.5 (57.3) ; exposed 

 culmen 59-74 (63.7) ; tarsus 75-79.5 (77.1) ; middle toe without claw 

 57.5-60.5 (55.8 mm.)}^ 



" No young males seen. 



'^ Three specimens from Oaxaca. 



