BIRDS OF NORTH .\XD MIDDLE .\MERICA 117 



Adult female. — Wing 190; tail 60; exposed culmen 63: tarsus 84; 

 middle toe without claw 62 imn.-^ 



Range. — Known only from the type locality and the adjacent Pacific 

 coast of Guatemala (Chiapam), 



Type locality. — Barre de Santiago, Ahuachapan, El Salvador. 



Aramidcs albirentris (not of Lawrence, 1S67) Shaki^, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xxiii, 1894, 59. part (Retalhuleu, Guatemala). — Laxtz, Trans. Kansas Acad. 



Sci., xvi, 1896-97 ( 1899 ) , 219 ( San Jose, Guatemala ) . 

 Aramidcs olbiventris albiveniris Bangs, Amer. Nat., sli, 1907, 183, part (Chiapam, 



Guatemala). 

 Aramides vanrossemi Dickhtt, Condor, xxxi, 1929, 33 (orig. descr. ; Barra de 



Santiago, Ahuachapan, El Salvador). 

 A[rainides] vanrossejiii Dickey, Condor, xxxi, 1929, 33 in text (crit.). 

 Aramides alhiventris raiirossemi Gbiscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Isiv, 



1932. 120 (Ocos, Guatemala). 

 Aramides cajanea vanrossemi Petebs, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 174.-van 



RossEM. Birds El Salvador, 1938, 1.59 ( El Salvador, fairlv common in April 



and probably resident in mangroves and swamp forests at Barra de Santiago ; 



habits; food; colors of soft parts). 



ARA3»m)ES CAJANEA ALBIVENTRIS Lawrence 

 WHITE-BEIXrED W0OI>-E-ML 



Adult (sexes alike). — Differing from the nominate race in the same 

 characters as Aramides cajanea mexicana but with the posterior edge 

 of the brown upper abdomen broadly white, the white forming a very 

 conspicuous band between the brown anterior to it and the black 

 posterior to it. 



Other plumages not seen or recorded. 



Adult maJe.—Wmg 182-189 (185.8) ; tail 60-66 (62.8) ; exposed cul- 

 men 64-65 (64.3) ; tarsus 79.5-82 (80.5) ; middle toe without claw 

 5^64.5 (61.5 mm.)." 



Adult female.— Wing 172-195.5 (183.9) ; tail 60-66 (62.7) : exposed 

 culmen 58.5-64.5 (61.1) ; tarsus 73-81 (77.4) ; middle toe without 

 claw 54r-59 (55.7 mm.).-^ 



Range. — Resident from extreme southern Mexico (Campeche — 

 Champoton; and Yucatan — Las Bocas de Silam and Cozumel Island) ; 

 south through British Honduras (Belize River and Mountain Cow) ; 

 Guatemala (Peten, Chiapam. Vera Paz, Coban, mouth of Rio Samala, 

 Choctum, etc.). 



Type locality. — British Honduras. 



-1 One specimen. 



" Three specimens from Mexico. 



'^ Four specimens from Yucatan and Campeche, Mexico, and Guatemala. Eight 

 unsexed birds from Yucatan and Guatemala show the following size variations : 

 Wing 175-182 (17S.3) ; tail 55-62.5 (57.5) ; exposed culmen 5S.5-67 (52.2) ; 

 tarsus 73.5-80.5 (76.9) ; middle toe without claw 52-62 (56.1 mm.)- 



