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Southeastern Mexico, iii ^States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Cofrc do 

 Perote; Buena Vista; Mirad6r; Medellin; Jalapa; Minatitldn), 

 Oaxaca (Cacoprieto), Tabasco (Teapa; Montecristo), Chiapas (Tux- 

 tla; Ocuilapa), Campeche (Apazote), and Yucatan (Izamdl; Calot- 

 mul; Quintana-Koo; Puerto Morelos; Meco Island), and southward 

 through Guatemala (Volcan de Fuego; Chocttim; Cobdn; Calderas; 

 Duenas; Petalliuleu; Savana Grande), Salvador (San Salvador), 

 Honduras, British Honduras (Orange Walk; BeUze; San FeUpe; 

 Toledo District; pine ridge near Manatee Lagoon; Manatee River), 

 Nicaragua (Savala, Matagalpa; Ocotal; Jalapa; Chinandega; Vol- 

 can de Chinandega ; Rio Coco; RioEscondido; San Rafdel del Norte), 

 Costa Rica (San Jose; Santa Rosa; Alajuela; Cartago; Volcdn de 

 Irazu; Escazu; Guayabo; Liberia; Lagudria, Dota; Dota Moun- 

 tains; El Pozo de Terraba; Boruca), and Panama (Boqueron, 

 Boquete, and Bugaba, ChiriquI; Calov^vora, Chitra, and Calobre, 

 Veiagua; Lion Hill, Canal Zone; Cana, Darien) to Colombia (Rio 

 FriOjCauca; San Lorenzo and Puebla Viejo, Santa Marta; Bogota®), 

 Venezuela," Trinidad « (Caparo; Chaguanas), Cayenne, « and western 

 Ecuador « (Machay; Buliim) 



{??)Strixfasciata (not Ulula/asciata DesMurs, 1846) Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., vii, 1817, 21 (Martinique [?]). 



Symium virgatum Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, 1848, 124 ("South 

 America;" coll. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.); Ann. and Mag. N. E. (2), iv, 1849, 

 228 (reprint); Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. PMIa., ii, pt. i, 1850, 51, pi. 3.— Strick- 

 land, Orn. Syn., i, 1855, 193. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 285 

 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1858, 132 (s. Mexico; Central America). — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 221 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 370 

 (Lion Hill, Panama). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 317 (Lion 

 Hill, Panama); ix, 1868, 132 (Dota, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1869, 366 (Costa Rica).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 271 

 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz ; Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala; Costa Rica; Calovevora, 

 Veragua; Caracas, Venezuela; "Brazil "). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1883, 456 (Yucatan).— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1887, 125 (Alajuela, 

 Liberia, San Jose, and Cartago, Costa Rica). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., xvi, 1893, 520 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua). — Chapman, Bull. Am. 



Footnote — Continued. 



Specimens from Santa Marta, Colombia, and Cana, Darien, are the darkest of the 

 entire series, while examples from the Cauca Valley, western Colombia, are not 

 different, that I can see, from birds from Costa Rica, etc. It is possible that a 

 sufficient series of specimens from northern South America may show that true 

 C. virgata (a darker bird) is restricted to Venezuela, northern Colombia, and the 

 extreme eastern end of the Isthmus of Panama; in which case the Central American 

 bii-d would have to be called Ciccaba virgata lineata, Symium lineatum Lawrence 

 having been based on specimens from Lion Hill, Canal Zone. The lighter colored 

 phase, with whitish, extensively striped, under parte, is relatively more numerous 

 northward, especially in southeastern Mexico, where specimens incline toward C. v. 

 sqvximulata and C. v. tamaulipensis . 



o I have not seen specimens from these localities and countries. 



