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bars of pale pinkish cinnamon; secondaries with the outer webs Hght 

 pinkish cinnamon tipped with white and crossed by five or six broad 

 blotches of chaetura black giving a heavily banded appearance, their 

 inner webs hair brown vermiculated finely with dusky, tipped with white 

 like the outer webs and subterminally somewhat suffused with pale pinkish 

 cinnamon ; rectrices with both webs similar to the outer webs of the 

 secondaries.^^ 



Natal do%i>n (sexes alike). — Top of head, occiput, nape, auriculars, and 

 hindneck pale ochraceous-tawny, slightly paler anteriorly ; the middle of 

 the occiput with a blotch of mummy brown ; back and rump pale ochra- 

 ceous-tawny broadly streaked with blackish ; chin and upper throat light 

 cream buff, lower throat pinkish buff ; breast and abdomen light buff 

 slightly tinged with pinkish buff on the breast, flanks, and thighs. 



Adult malc.—Wmg 348-412.5 (388.5) ; tail 284-347 (327.9) ; culmen 

 from cere 25-31.8 (28.5) ; tarsus 131-139.4 (136.2) ; middle toe without 

 claw 69.8-76.2 (72.6 mm.).^^ 



Adidt female—Wing 313-357 (339.7) ; tail 244-281.5 (262.5) ; culmen 

 from cere 21-29.8 (24.3) ; tarsus 109.0-115 (112.6) ; middle toe without 

 claw 60.5-66.4 (63.7 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident in the tropical forests of the lowlands of the Pet en 

 district of Guatemala (Yaxa; Uaxactun, Pacomon, and Dos Arroyos) 

 and adjacent parts of British Honduras (Belize; Western Districts) and 

 of Yucatan (Buctzotz; Acomal, eastern Quintana Roo; Chichen Itza ; 

 Merida; Epista; Rio Lagartos La Vega; Calotmal, Tomax, and Vallado- 

 lid), and of Campeche (Pacaitun, Apazote, La Tuxpena, and Yahaltun). 

 Introduced unsuccessfully on Sapelo Island, Georgia, but no birds are 

 now to be found there. 



Type locality. — Gulf of Honduras. 



Mclcagris occllata Cuvier, Mem. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vi, 1820, 1, 4, pi. 1 (Bay 

 of Honduras; coll. Paris Mus.). — Temminck, Nouv. Rec. PI. Col, v, 1824, 



^* Very inadequate material suggests that there may be an immature plumage be- 

 tween the Juvenal and the adult stages. An unsexed adult bird from Guatemala 

 (U.S.N.M. No. 132188) has a few scapulars similar to the juvenal described above 

 but grayer and crossed by more but narrower blackish bands. It also has an outermost 

 rectrix which is gray as in the adult tail feather but has the unvermiculaled bars 

 much wider than the white and brownish-gray vermiculated transverse areas (just 

 the opposite of the adult condition) and lacks the subterminal ocellus, the terminal 

 bronzy bars being dull dusky toward the tip which is very pointed (flatly rounded 

 in adults). These few feathers — scapulars and a rectrix — are the only indication I 

 have seen of an immature plumage, but I cannot explain them in any other way. 

 Two females from Campeche, described by Shufeldt (Auk, xxx, 1913, 432) and 

 examined by me in the present connection, have the remiges devoid of white cross 

 bars, but are not immature as far as other characters are concerned. They seem to 

 me to be adult, but I cannot account for their peculiar wing feathers. 



'* Eight specimens. 



^° Six specimens from Yucatan, Campeche, and Guatemala. 



