200 



Young. Entirely different from the adults. Blackish brown above, 

 broadly barred with sandy buff, most of the bars being continuous, 

 some separated by the middle of the feather intervening ; lower 

 back, rump, and upper tail-coverts slaty black, barred with white ; 

 tail slaty black, crossed with six narrow white bands, including the 

 one at the tip ; wing-coverts like the back, and banded in the same 

 manner, the bars on the inner webs of the greater coverts inclining 

 to white ; quills slaty black, the secondaries browner, the primaries 

 with ashy-white bars on the inner web, and white or yellowish- 

 white spots on the outer one, the secondaries barred with sandy buff 

 on the outer web. 



Hub. Central America, from Mexico to Panama. 



Feb. [A 



a,b. (S 2 ^^- j ^> '^• 



(5 2 imm. sk. 

 e. Ad. sk. 



/, ff, h. Ad. sk. 



i. Juv. sk. 



k. cJ ad. sk. 

 I. 5 juv. sk. 



m, n. 2 imm. sk. 



o. 2 ad. sk. 



1^- 



cJ imm. sk. 

 Ad. ; r, s. Juv. 



t. Juv. sk, 



tt. Ad.; V. 



sk. 

 tu. Ad. sk. 



Juv. 



I/- 



2 ad. sk. 

 Juv. sk. 



z. Imm. ak. 

 a'. Jut. sk. 

 d'. Ad. St. 



Presidio, Mexico, 



JFon'er). 

 San Bias, Tepic, May ( W. B. 



Richardson). 

 Nuevo Leon, April {F. B. 



Armstroyig). 

 Tamaulipas ( W. B. Richard- 



■ton). 

 Tampico, June ( W. B. R.). 

 Sierra Madre, above Ciudad 



Victoria, April ( TV. B. R.). 

 Vega del Casadero,Vera Cruz, 



Dec. (M. Trujillo). 

 Mizantla, Nov. {Ferrari- 



Rerez). 

 Tizimin, N. Yucatan, March 



(&'. F. Gaumer). 

 Cozumel Isl. (G. F. Guumer). 



Belize, British Honduras [F. 



Blancaneaux). 

 Chiapam, Guatemala, Jan. 



(O. «.). 

 Junteebolol, Peten, April 



(O. -S'.). 

 Costa Rica {J. Carmiol). 

 Chontales, Nicaragua ( T. 



Belt). 

 Veragua, Panama {E. Aixe). 

 Panama {McLeannan). 

 Panama. 



26. ERYTHROCNUS. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll, 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Capt. Kellett & Lieut. 

 Wood [P.]. 



Type. 



Erythrocnus, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, iii. p. xx.vix 



(1894) E. rufiventris. 



Mange. Confined to Africa. 



1. Erythrocnus rufiventris. 



Ardea rufiventris, Sundev. GEfvers. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 1850, 

 p. 110 ; Layard, Ibis, 1871, p. 10-5 (St. Lucia Bay) ; At/res, t. c. 



