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SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. I50 



Resident along the Pacific coast from Puerto Armuelles eastward, 

 ranging to Isla Coiba, Isla Canal de Afuera, Isla Cebaco, and the 

 Archipielago de las Perlas (recorded from Contadora, Chapera, Ma- 



FiG. 16. — Head of bare-throated tiger-bittern, jorralico, Heterocnus mexicanus, 

 with throat bare from the bill to the upper foreneck. 



laga, Bayoneta, and San Jose). Reported once on the Caribbean coast 

 at Perme, San Bias (specimen, July 25, 1929, in Museum of Com- 

 parative Zoology). Found locally in uninhabited areas; rare, or ab- 

 sent, in settled regions. 



This interesting heron, long of neck, short of leg, and with bare 



