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Adult male.— Wing 365-445 (388); tail 305-362 (331.3) ; culmen 

 from cere 27-33.5 (31.5) ; culmen including cere 46-58 (53.2) ; tarsus 

 113-127 (117.8) ; middle toe without claw 70-86 (76.8 mm.).i^ 



Adult female.— Wing 355-410 (372.4) ; tail 315-345 (322) ; culmen 

 from cere 24—30 (27.2) ; culmen including cere 43.5-50 (48.3) ; tarsus 

 10&-117 (112.4) ; middle toe without claw 70-80 (73.5 mm.).!^ 



Range. — Resident in forested areas in the tropical zone from south- 

 eastern Mexico — southern Tamaulipas (Guiaves; Sierra INIadre above 

 Ciudad Victoria) ; Veracruz (Misantla) ; Oaxaca (Tapana; Chimalapa) ; 

 Campeche (La Tuxpena; Champoton) ; Yucatan (eastern Quintana Roo ; 

 Puerto Morelos; La Vega) ; British Honduras (Belize; Cayo District) ; 

 Honduras (Lake Yojoa; Tigre Island; Comayagua; San Pedro; Lance- 

 tilla) ; Guatemala (local on the Pacific slope; Chilom6; Lake Peten ; Los 

 Amates ; Naranjo ; Pozo del Rio Grande ; Panzos ; Rexche ; Santo Tomas ; 

 Savanna Grande; Sepacuite ; Vera Paz) ; Nicaragua (Rio Escondido; Los 

 Sahalos) ; Costa Rica (Guacimo; La Palma de Nicoya; Naranjo; Rio 

 Frio ; San Carlos ; San Jose ; Sarapiqui ; Talamanca ; Valza ; Volcan de 

 Irazii ; Volcan de Miravalles) ; and Panama (Almirante; Boquete; Canal 

 Zone; Cerro Bruja; Jesusito, Darien; Lion Hill; Obaldia; Perme) ; south 

 through western Colombia (Choco ; Bando ; Bagado) ; to western Ecuador 

 (Chongon Hills; Paramba; Bunlun). 



Type locality. — No locality given; designated as western Ecuador by 

 Hellmayr and Conover (Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 130). 



[Crax] rubra Linnaeus, Sj'st. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 157 ("America"; based on 

 Gallina peruviana rubra Albin, Av., iii, 27, pi. 40) ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 270. — Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1788, 736. — Reichenbach, Synop. Av., Columb., ii, 1837, pi. 

 175, figs. 1523, 1524. 



Crax rubra Temminck, Pig. et Gallin., iii, 1815, 21, 687. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. 

 Hist. Nat., xiv, 1817, 582.— Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool., xi, pt. i, 1819, 168, 

 pi. 9.— Bennett, Gard. and Menag., ii, 1831, 225.— Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 

 484. — Reichenbach, Voll. Nat. Tauben, 1861, 139 (crit). — Sutton and Bur- 

 leigh, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 3, 1939, 27 (Tamaulipas). 

 — Sutton and Pettingill, Auk, lix, 1942, 10 (Tamaulipas; habits; nest and 

 eggs). 



C[rax] rubra Reichenbach, Voll. Nat. Tauben, 1861, 133, part (Mexico). 



C[ra.f] rubra Cubas, Cuadro Geogr., Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de los Estados 

 Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 169 (Mexico; common names). 



Crax rubra ? Lav/rence, Ann. Lj'c. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1861, 301 (Panama). 



Crax rubra rubra Peters, Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 12 (distr.). — Griscom, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxviii, 1935, 303 (Panama).— Van Tyne, Misc. Publ. 

 Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 27, 1935, 10 (Uaxactun, Peten, Guatemala). — 

 Aldrich, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., vii, 1937, 51 (Cerro Viejo, 

 Azuero Peninsula, Panama; plum.; crit.). — S.\ssi, Temminckia, iii, 1938, 304 

 (Costa Rica; Bebedero; spec). — Hellmayr and Coxover, Cat. Birds Amer., 



Eleven specimens from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama. 

 Seven specimens from Mexico. 



