BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female.— Length (skins), 470-500 (485); wing, 195.5-212 

 (204.3); tail, 145.5-168.5 (158); culmen, 121-142.5 (131.4); tarsus, 

 43.5-49.5 (47); outer anterior toe, 33-38 (36).°^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Puebla (Metlaltoyuca), Vera 

 Cruz (Playa Vicente; Misantla; Colipa; Hacienda de los Atlixcos; 

 Hacienda Tortuga; Vega de Casadero; San Lorenzo; Alvarado; 

 Cordova; Jalapa; Mrador; Cosamaloap^m; Uvero; Atoydc; Pasa 

 Nueva; Tolosa), Oaxaca (mountains near Santo Domingo; Chima- 

 lapa), Tabasco (Teapa), and Yucatan (northern Yucatan; Meco 

 Island) to Guatemala (Choctum; sources of Rio de la Pasion; Lan- 

 quln; Cajabon; Rio Dulce; Los Amates, Yzabdl; Santo Tomas), 

 British Honduras (Belize; Orange Walk; Chasniguas; near Manatee 

 Lagoon; near Quamin Creek ; near Soldier Creek; Toledo District), 

 and Honduras (San Pedro; Ceiba). 



[RampJiastos] piscivorus Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 151 (based on Tucana 

 s. Pica hrasiliensis Edwards, Birds, pi. 64; Tucana brasiliensis gutture alho 

 Brisson, Om., iv, 413; Picus americantcs Hernandez, Max., 697; Xochitenacatl 

 Ray, Av., 178).— Gmelin, Syst, Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 355.— Latham, Index 

 Om., i, 1790, 136. 



R[amphastos\ piscivorus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 93. 



Ramphastos piscivorus Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 324 (Vera Paz, Guatemala; 

 Jalapa, Mex.). 



(?) Ramphastos carinatus Swainson, Zool. Illustr., ser. 1, i, no. 8, May, 1821, pi. 

 45 and text (locality unknown; based on a bill, and a sketch by an imknown 

 artist; also, largely, on Edwards). 



Ramphastos carinatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1834, 73 (Mexico); Mon. 

 Ramphastidse, ed. 1, 1834, pi. 7; ed. 2, 1854, pi. 2.— Sturm, ed. Gould's 

 Mon. Ramph., pt. iii, 1842, pi. 2. — Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 

 108 (Mexico).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 308 (Cordova, Vera 



a Five specimens. 



Specimens from Guatemala and British Honduras are intermediate in coloration 

 .between those from Mexico and R. p. brevicarinatus, most of them having the red 

 jugular band distinctly indicated. They seem to be nearer the northern form, how- 

 ever, than to the southern one. 



