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adults; under tail coverts with transverse spots to actual bars of slate 

 black. 



Natal down. — Apparently unknown. 



Adult male.—Wmg 173-197 (189.1); tail 88-102 (95); culmen from 

 cere 11.5-12.5 (12.1); tarsus 32-36 (33.6); middle toe without claw 

 28-31 (29.7 mm.). 50 



Adult female.— \Tmg 209-229 (220); tail 103-118 (111.7); culmen 

 from cere 13-15 (13.9); tarsus 35-39 (36.5); middle toe without claw 

 32-35 (33.8 mm.). ^^ 



Range. — Kcsident in the tropical and subtropical zones from north- 

 central Mexico (Tamaulipas — Altamira, Tampico; Nuevo Le6n; 

 Nayarit — San Bias, Tres Marias Islands; Veracruz — Achotal, Orizaba, 

 Mirador, Tlaja, Vicente; Oaxaca — La Parada, Santa Efigenia, Tapa- 

 natepec, Cacoprieto, Tapana, Tehuantepec; Yucatan — Merida, 

 Chichen Itza; Xcopen and Camp Mengel, Quintana Roo; Campeche — 

 La Tuxpefia); Guatemala (Peten — Laguna Perdida; Patulul; Maza- 

 tenango; Hacienda California; Panajachel; Finca el Cipres); Honduras 

 (La Ceiba; Truxillo; Lancetilla; Ruatan Island; Rio Blanco; Santa 

 Ana; Segovia River); British Honduras (Manatee Lagoon, near 

 BeHze); Nicaragua (Rio Escondido); Costa Rica (Barba Heredia; 

 San Lucas; Talamanca; La Palma de San Jose; Pozo Azul de Pirris; 

 San Jose; Cerro de Santa Maria; El General de Terraba; Los Cuadros 

 de Irazd; Guacimo; Cuabre de Talamanca; Aliravalles; El Pozo de 

 Terraba); Panama (Calovebora; Cordillera de Toll; Volcan de 

 Chiriqui; Santa Fe de Veraguas; Punta de Sabana; Bay of Panama; 

 Cabima; Changuinola; Perme; Obaldia; Jesucito); south through 

 Colombia (Rio Frio; Bonda; Cincinnati; Mama toco; La Manuelita, 

 La Palmas; Florencia; La Concepci6n; Bogotd; Neche); Trinidad and 

 Venezuela (San Sebastidn; San Julian; Rio Negro; Caicara; Rio 

 Cataniapo; Puerto Samora); British Guiana (Demerara; Roraima; 

 Bartica; Upper Takutu Mountains; the Ituribisi, Supenaam, Kama- 

 kabra, Bonasika, Curubung, and Essequebo Rivers; Kamakusa; 

 Corentyne Coast; Wakenaam Island); Dutch Guiana (Paramaribo); 

 French Guiana (Cayenne); Brazil (Diamantina; Para; Bahia; 

 Counany; Piauhy — Ibiapaba; Goyaz — Philadelphia, lower Rio Tocan- 

 tins, Guardamor; Rio Negro; Rio Purus — Bom Lugar; Rio Jamau- 

 chim — Maria Villias; Rio Jurua; Paranagud; Santarem; Rio Capim; 

 Obidos; Rio de Janeiro — Sapitiba; Minas Gerais; Sao Paulo — 

 Franca, Avanhandava, Iguape, Porto do Rio Parana; Mato Grosso — 

 Chapada, CaiQara, Mato Grosso, Rio Guapore); Ecuador (Paramba; 



^° Eleven specimens from Mexico, Guatemala, British Honduras, Honduras, 

 Panama, Venezuela, and British Guiana. 



" Eighteen specimens from Mexico, Honduras, British Honduras, Guatemala, 

 Costa Rica, Venezuela, and Colombia. 



