12. MELANEEPES. 



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Adult male. Back and acapiilars black, ven- narrowly barred with 

 greyish white ; rump and uj)per tail-coverts white, occasionally 

 barred with black ; wings and their coverts black, the latter, like- 

 wise the innermost secondaries, very narrowly barred with white, 

 the remaining secondaries with small transverse spots of white on 

 both webs, the primaries more or less spotted at the base of the 

 inner webs, some of the outer webs irregularly spotted at tho 

 extreme base ; shafts black ; tail and the shafts black ; nasal plumes, 

 base of the forehead, middle of the crown, occiput, and nape 

 crimson; hind neck like the back ; frontal band pale drab or huffy 

 white, the supercilium, face and neck, and the under surface of the 

 body darker drab, paler on the chin and throat, more ash}' on the 

 hinder part of the supercilium, side of the neck and fore neck, and 

 the underparts slightly fulvesceut ; lower abdomen and vent crimson, 

 the latter with dusky bars showing through, the thighs barred 

 dusky black and white ; under tail-coverts white, with bars and 

 apical Y-shaped markings of black ; under wing-coverts white, 

 barred with dusky black ; axillaries smoky white. Total length 9-5 

 inches, culmen 1-35, wing 5-1, tail 3'12, tarsus 0"95 ; toes (without 

 claws) — outer anterior 0-8, outer posterior 0-8, inner anterior 0-6, 

 inner posterior 0-33. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in wanting the red on 

 the top of the head, the fore part of the crown being creamj' drab, 

 darker posteriorly and grading into dusky or smoky grev on the 

 occiput; the red confined to the nape and forming a broad band. 

 Total length 9-3 inches, culmen 1'4, wing 4"9, tail 3'0o, tarsus 0"S6. 



Mab. Yucatan and Cozumel Island, south into Honduras, and 

 ranging into Southern Mexico to Teapa. 



a, b, c. c? ad. ; d-ff. 



2 ad. sk. 

 h, i. S $ fid- sk. 



k-o. cJ ad. ; p-s. 



$ ad. sk. 

 t, II. (5 ad. ; V. 5 ad. 



sk. 

 iD-a . S ad. ; b' . $ 



ad. sk. 

 c . (^ ad. sk. 

 d'. c? ad. sk. 



e'-n' . S ad. et 

 imm. : o'-u'. 2 

 ad. et imm. sk. 



v . S imm. sk. 



Teapa, Mexico, Jan., Feb., 

 Mar. {M)-s. H. H. Smith). 



Northern Yucatan {G. F. 

 Gaumer). 



Buctzotz, Yucatan, April {G. 

 F. Gaumer). 



Temax, Yucatan, May. 



Peto, Yucatan, April (G. F. 



Gaumer). 

 Tahi,Yucatau,Feb.(J:Z>. G.). 

 Cozumel Island, Jan. 1885 



{E. a J. Derk). 

 Cozumel Island (&'. F. 



Gaumer). 



Salvin- 



Salvin- 



Salvin- 



Salvin- 



Salvin- 



Salvin- 

 Salvin- 



■Godman Coll. 



■Godmaii Coll. 



Godman Coll. 



•Godman Coll. 



•Godman CoU. 



Godman Coll. 

 •Godman Coll. 



Salviu-Godiuan Coll. 



Meco Island ((?. F. Gaumer). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



* I cannot regard this species, from Cozumel, as distinct from M. diibittg, 

 simply on account of its barred rump and upper tail-corerts. as we have in 

 the same small island a bird identical with the latter species. The occurrence 

 of so many examples of each form is certainly remarkable ; but in some of the 

 other species of Mdanerpes similar variations are found, though rarely. 



