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29. AEDETTA. 



Merritt's, Florida, June (C /. 



Maymird : Ilensh. Coll.). 

 Tarpon Sprinfrs, Florida. May, 



June ( W. E. D. Scott). 



De Soto Connty, Florida, May, 



November ( W. li. Dean). 

 Bermuda, March 1. 



Corpus Christi, May (F. B. 



Armstronr/) . 

 Brownsville. Jan., April, May 



{F. B. Armstronff). 

 Nueces County, Texas, Sept. 



(F. B. Arjnstronc/). 

 California. 



Mexico. 



Vicinity of the City of Mexico 



{Ehves). 

 Lake of Duenas, Guatemala, 



Sept. (O.S.^F.B.G.). 

 Atitlan, Guatemala, Dec. {W. 



B. Richardson). 

 Lion Hill Station, Panama {J. 



McLeannan). 



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Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman Coll. 



J. E. Harting, Esq. 



[P.]. 

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Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Salvin-Godman CoU. 



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5. Ardetta neoxena. 



Ardetta neoxena, Cory, Auk, 1886, p. 262 ; Brown, Biol. Review 

 Ontario, i. p. 86 (1894); Chapman, Auk, v. p. 394 (1888); Cory, 

 Auk, viii. p. 309 (1891 : Florida) ; Scott, t. c. p. 309 (Florida); 

 Brown, Auk, x. p. 303 (1893: Toronto); Watkhis, Auk, xii. 

 p. 77 (1895: Michigan). 



Botaurus neoxerius, Scott, Auk, ix. pp. 141, 142 (1892 : Florida). 



Adult male. General colour above black, with a shade of oily 

 bronze on the back and scapulars, not seen on the lower back and 

 rump ; wing-coverts chestnut, with a blackish patch near the bend 

 of the wing, the greater coverts slate-colour, washed with chestnut ; 

 quills slaty-grey, the secondaries externally chestnut, the innermost 

 like the back, but strongly glossed with green ; tail-feathers black, 

 with a very evident gloss of green ; crown of head and nape black, 

 with a greenish gloss; sides of face, ear-coverts, sides of neck, 

 throat and chest deep chestnut, the feathers of the neck-frill marked 

 with greenish black, forming a margin to the frill behind ; 

 remainder of under surface of body dusky rufous, with a few 

 white feathers on the thighs ; sides of the upper breast black with 

 an oily-green gloss ; under wing-coverts rufous, with ashy bases ; 

 quills ashy below : on each side of the rump a white powder-down 

 patch: "tarsus and toes greenish yellow; soles yellow "(ff. H. 

 Brown). Total length 11 inches, culmen 1"7, wing 4-35, tail 1-55, 

 tarsus 1-55. {Mus. J. H. Fleming.) 



Hab. Eastern Canada to Florida. 



