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rectrices bicolored, the basal part of the tip being ochraceous-tawny, the 

 distal part grayish fulvescent. 



OtJier plumages. — None seen. 



Adult male. — Wing 189; tail 238; exposed culmen 25 ; tarsus 66; middle 

 toe without claw 48 mm. (1 specimen). 



Adult female.— Wing 180-194; tail 230-241 ; exposed culmen 23.5-24; 

 tarsus 63-65 ; middle toe without claw 47 mm.'^' 



Range. — Resident in the humid coastal forest areas of the southern half 

 of British Honduras (Belize) ; Tabasco (Teapa) ; eastern Guatemala 

 (Ouirigua, Gualan, Coban, Vera Paz, Los Amates, and Virginia Planta- 

 tions near Puerto Barrios) ; to northwestern Honduras (Omoa, Chamel- 

 econ, San Pedro, Progreso, Lancetilla). 



Type locality. — Omoa, Honduras. 



Penelope vetula (not of V/agler) Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, 119 

 (Guatemala; descr. ; crit.). 



Ortalida vetula Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, 62 (Omoa, Honduras; habits). 

 — ScLATER and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 224 (Guatemala; habits); Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1870, 538, part (monogr.), 838 (San Pedro, Honduras). — Taylor, Ibis, 

 1860, 311 (Atlantic slope of Honduras; habits). 



[Ortalida] vetula Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137, part. 



Ortalis vetida Ogilvie- Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 512, part (Teapa, 

 Tabasco; vicinity of Belize, British Honduras; Coban, Vera Paz, Guatemala) ; 

 Handb. Game Birds, ii, 1897, 245, part. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., Aves, iii, 1902, 280, part (Teapa, Tabasco; Belize, British Honduras; 

 Omoa and San Pedro, Honduras ; Coban, Guatemala). 



[Ortalis] vetida Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 17, part. 



Ortalida plumbiceps Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 11 (British 

 Llonduras; Guatemala; coll. Brit. Mus.). 



[Ortalida] plumbiceps Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 252, No. 9504. 



0[rtalida] plumheiceps Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 538 

 (crit.). 



0[rtalis] vetida plumheiceps Ridgway, Man. North Amer. Birds, 1887, 209. 



Ortalis vetula plumheiceps Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ixxxiv, 1932, 

 301 (Honduras; Omoa, Chiloma, Lancetilla, and Progreso). — Deignan, Auk, 

 Hii, 1936, 188 (Honduras; La Ceiba; spec. ; colors of soft parts). 



Ortalis vetula plumbiceps Dearborn, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., No. 125, 1907, 78 

 (Gualan and Los Amates, Guatemala; notes, etc.). — Miller and Griscom, Auk, 

 xxxviii, 1921, 47 (Guatemala; Honduras; highlands of Pacific slope in Nica- 

 ragua; crit.; meas.). — Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixix, 1929, 403 (Pro- 

 greso, Lancetilla, Honduras ; habits) ; Check-list Birds of World, ii, 1934, 19. — 

 Griscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ixiv, 1932, 101 (humid coastal forest 

 areas of eastern Guatemala; spec. Virginia Plantation near Puerto Barrios). — 

 Carriker and de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ixxxvii, 1935, 

 413 (Guatemala; Gualan and Quirigua). — Hellmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds 

 Amer., i. No. 1, 1942, 172 (syn. ; distr.). 



0[rtalis] v[etula] plumbiceps Miller and Griscom, Auk, xxxviii, 1921, 50 

 (diagnosis). 



' Two specimens from Guatemala and Honduras. 



