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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 310-375 (342); wing, 123.5-127 

 (125.4); tail, 106-120.5 (113); culmen, 58-74 (63.4); tarsus, 33-35 

 (34); outer anterior toe, 23.5-26 (25.1)." 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova, Jalapa, 

 Mirador, Orizaba; Cofre de Perote; Coatepec; Huatusco; Hacienda Tor- 

 tugas; Zentla; Rio Juan Martin), Oaxaca (Tonagula; Tehuantepec; 

 Chimalapa), and Chiapas (Pinabete),and southward through Guate- 

 mala (Cohan; Coban toChisec; Rasche; Calderas, Volcan de Fuego; 

 Chilasco; Cerro Zunil; Las Nubes; Totonicapdm; Tecpam; GuaUn; 

 San Marcos) . British Honduras ? "' Salvador (Volcan de San Miguel) ? ^ 



(?) [Ramphastos] pavoninus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 353 (Mexico; based 

 on Tucana viexicana viridis Brisson, Orn., iv, 423; etc.). 



(?) Pt[ei-oglossus] pavoninus (not Ramphastos pavoninus Gmelin?) Wagler, Isis, 

 1829, 507 (Valle Real, Mexico; coll. BerHn Mus. ; see Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 5G0, 561). 



Pteroglossus prasinus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1834, 78 (Mexico); Mon. 

 Ramphast., ed. 1, 1834, pi. 29. — Sturm, ed. Gould's Mon. Ramphast., 1841, 

 pi. 6 (pt. i, pi. 6). 



[Aulacoramphus] prasinus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 96. 



Aulacoramphus prasinus Gould, Mon. Ramphast., ed. 2, 1854, pi. 47 and text. — 

 Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 120. — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., i, 1869, 561 (temperate region. Vera Cruz). — Boucard, Liste Ois. r6col. 

 Guat., 1878, 24 (Guatemala). — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 

 1886, 163 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



Aulacorhamphus prasinus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 308 (Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz); 1859, 368 (Jalapa); 1864, 177 (near City of Maxico); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 328 (Guatemala); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xix, 1891, 156 (Cofre de 

 Perote, Coatepec, Huatusco, Orizaba, etc., Vera Cruz; Tonaguia, Oaxaca; 

 Brit. Honduras; Coban, Rasclie, Volcan de Fuego, and Calderas, Guate- 

 mala). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 135 (Calderas and Vera Paz, Guate- 

 mala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1896, 559, part 

 (Valle Real, Mirador, Cofre de Perote, Hacienda Tortugas, Zentla, Rio Juan 



o Four specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Six adult males from Vera Cruz 



One adult male from Oaxaca 



Five adult males from Chiapas (2) and Guatemala (3) 



Four adult males from northern Nicaragua (A. p. virescens) . 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from Vera Cruz 



One adult female from Oaxaca 



One adult female from Chiapas 



One adult female from Honduras (A . p. virescens) 



Four adult females from northern Nicaragua (A . p. virescens) 



Wing. 



129.2 

 138 

 132.5 

 122.1 



123.7 



127 



127 



119 



121.2 



Tail. 



118.4 

 128 

 122.2 

 108 



107.5 

 116.5 

 120.5 

 104.5 

 108 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen 



73.1 



74 

 74.6 



74.7 



67 



58 



61.5 



58 



63.5 



Tarsus 



34.1 

 35 

 33.9 

 34.4 



34 

 33 

 35 

 34 

 32.5 



Outer 



anterior 



toe. 



25.7 

 27.5 

 26.6 

 26.2 



24.7 



25 



26 



26 



24.9 



& Specimens from British Honduras and Salvador not examined. 



