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Range. — Resident in heavy tropical forest and apparently scarce 

 throughout its range, from southern Mexico (Jalapa; Veracruz; 

 Oaxaca-Santa Efigeiiia; Yucatdn — Tizimin; Tekanto, Sitelpcch; and 

 Chiapas — Huehuetdn; Tonald); Guatemala (Huamuchal; Sabanna 

 Grande) ; Nicaragua (Matagalpa, San Emilia) ; Costa Rica (La Palma 

 de San Jose; Tucurrique; Esparta; Pacuare; El Hogar; Buenos Aires 

 de Terraba); and Panama (Banana River; Lion Hill; Veraguas); 

 south through Colombia (Vista Nieve, Santa Marta); British Guiana; 

 French Guiana ("Cayenne"); through Brazil (Taquera, Rio Grande 

 do Sul; Sao Paulo; Chapada, Alato Grosso; Cantagallo; apparently 

 not recorded from Amazonia proper) ; to southeastern Peru (Tunga- 

 suca); and northeastern Argentina (Misiones; Rio Parand). Not 

 found in any of the West Indies. 



Type locality. — Guiana. 



Bateo melanoleucus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., iv, 1816, 482 (Guiana); 

 Gal. Ois., 1825, pi. 14.— Nitsche, El Hornero, iii, 1926, 374 (in South Amer- 

 ican folklore). 



S'pizaeius melanoleucus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., sxxii, 1819, 57 (Para- 

 guay).— Gray, List Spec. Brit. Mus., pt. 1, Aeeip., ed. 2, 1848, 15 (South 

 America). — Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., i, 1850, 28. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1859, 215 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1864, 369 (Panama); 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 120. — Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii. No. 4, livr. 

 7, 1862, 14 (monogr.); livr. 10, 1873, 60.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 

 New York, ix, 1808, 132 (La Palma de San Josd, Costa Rica); U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Bull. 4, 1875, 38 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). — Frantzitjs, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1869, 368 (Costa Rica).— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1870, 12, No. 105.— Cabanis, 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1874, 229 (Brazil).' — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1883, 456 (Yucatdn). — Berlepsch and Ihering, Zeitschr. Orn., 1885, 170 

 (Taquera, Rio Grande do Sul, s. Brazil).— Koenigswald, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1896, 384 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil). 



Sjnzaetus (SpizasUir) melanoleucus Ridgway, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., xvi, 

 1873, 71 (Guiana). 



Spizastiir melanoleucus Bonaparte, Rev. Mag. Zool., vi, 1854, 537. — Ferrari- 

 PfiREz, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 167 (Jalapa, Veracruz).— Ihering, 

 Rev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 358 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil) ; vi, 1904, 338 (Para- 

 guay). — Ihering and Ihering, Av. Brazil, 1907, 94 (Rfo Grande do Sul, 

 Sao Paulo, Mato Grosso, and Rio Grande, Brazil). — Dabbene, Bol. Soc. 

 Physis Buenos Aires, i, 1913. 247 (Mbocay, Misiones), 303 (Rfo Parand and 

 Misiones, Argentina); Orn. Argent., 1910, 247, 285 (upper Rfo Parand); El 

 Hornero, iii, 1926, 394 (geul.; Argentina). — Bertoni, An. Soc. Cient. Argent., 

 Ixxv, 1913, 80 (Mbocay, Misiones); Fauna Paraguaya, 1914, 43. — Chubb, 

 Birds Brit. Guiana, i, 1916, 258.— Naumburg, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 Ix, 1930, 110 (crit.; distr.; Mato Grosso, Brazil). — Peters, Check-list Birds 

 of World, i, 1931, 247; Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxi, 1931, 309 (Banana River, 

 Panama). — Griscom, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxviii, 1935, 301 (Panama; 

 4 scattered records). — Anonymous, El Hornero, vi, 1935, 189 (distr.). — 

 Steullet and Deautier, Obra Cincuentenario Mus. La Plata, i, 1936, 

 451 (Argentine records and distr.; syn.). — Pinto, Rev. Mus. Paulista, 

 xxii, 1938, 80 (Brazil; distr.). — Griscom and Greenway, Bull. Mus. Comp. 

 Zool., Ixxxviii, 1941, 114 (Lower Amazonia; Rio Tapajdz; Obidos; spec). — 



