BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 348-388 (368); wing, 159.5-189 

 (170.5); tail, 193-238 (219.4); exposed culmen, 20.5-25.5 (23.8); 

 tarsus, 30.5-37 (34.1); outer anterior toe, 21-24.5 (22.8).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 360-395 (377); wing, 163-182 

 (173.5); tail, 220.5-232 (224.8); exposed culmen, 23-26 (24.5); 

 tarsus, 34-37 (35.5); outer anterior toe, 22-24.5 (23.2).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Mirador; Jalapa; 

 Cordova; Potrero), Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia; Cacoprieto), and Yuca- 

 tan (Buctzotz; Izamal) and southward through Guatemala (Choc- 

 tum; Coban; Cajabon; Mirandilla), Salvador (Volcdn de San 

 Miguel), Honduras (Chasniguas), Nicaragua (Jalapa; Volcdn de 

 Chmandega), and Costa Rica (Santa Maria de Dota; Boruca; Bue- 

 nos Aires ; Pozo Aztil de Pirris ; Bebedero ; Bolson ; La Estrella de Car- 

 tago) to Panama (Boquete; Lion Hill; Paraiso); western (cis-Andean) 

 South America south to Bolivia (lower Rio Beni), southern Brazil 

 (Cliapada, Mattogrosso; Arroio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul; Sao 

 Paulo; etc.), and Paraguay (upper Rio Parana; Sapucay). 



Macropus phasianellus Spix, Av. Bras., i, 1824, 53, pi. 42 (forests of Rio Tonantina, 

 Amazon Valley, Brazil). 



Coccyzus phasianellus Stephens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiv, 1826, 206. 



C[occyzus] phasianellus Hartlaub, Verz. Mus. Bremen, 1844, 95. 



D[romococq/x] phasianellus Maximilian, Beitr., iv, 1832, 353. — Cabanis and 

 Heine, Mus. Hein., iv, Heft i, 1863, 95 (Brazil). 



Dromococcyx phasianellus Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 260. — 

 ScLATER, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 321 (Brazil). — Cabanis, Joiirn. fur Orn., 

 1862, 172 (Costa Rica; crit.).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 128 

 (Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 361 (Costa Rica). — Pelzeln, 

 Orn. Bras., iii Abth., 1870, 270; iv Abth., 1871, 449.— Boucard, Liste Ois. 

 r^col. Guat., 1878, 25; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1883, 455 (Yucatan).— Ber- 



a Twelve specimens. 



^ Six specimens. 



Locality. 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



MALES. 



One adult male from Vera Cruz (Mirador) 



One adult male from Honduras 



One adult male from Nicaragua 



Three adult males from Costa Rica 



Four adult males from Panama 



Two adult males from southwestern Brazil (Chapada, Matto- 

 grosso) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Guatemala 



One adult female from Honduras 



One adult female from Nicaragua 



Three adult females from Costa Rica 



24 



24.5 



23.5 



22.8 



22.1 



21.5 



22 

 23 



24.5 

 23.3 



While smaller in most of their measurements than specimens from Central America 

 and Mexico, the Chapada example appears to be not different in coloration. 



