512 CRACID^. 



b. cS ad. sk. Tehuantepec, Feb. ( W. B. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Richardson). 



c. 9 ad. sk. Salina Cruz, Tehuantepec, Feb. Salviii-God man Coll. 



{W.B.R.). 



13. Ortalis vetula. 



? Penelope vociferans, Gmel. S. N. i. pt. ii. p. 735 (1788) [Mexico] ; 



Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 625 (1790) ; Bonn. Tabl. Encycl. Meth. 



p. 172 (1791). 

 Penelope vetula, Wagl. Isis, 1830, p. 1112 [Mexico]. 

 Ortalida vetula, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 1227 ; Gray, List of B. pt. iii. 



Gall. p. 20 (1844) ; Later. Ann. Lye. N. York, v. p. 116 (1852): 



Sclat. ^- Salvin, Ibis, 1859, p. 224 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 62 



[Omoa, N. Honduras] ; Sclat P. Z. 8. 1859, p. 391 [N.E. Oaxaca] ; 



Taylor, Ibis, 1860, p. 311 [Honduras] ; Grai/, Lid Gallince Brit. 



Mus. p. 11 (1867) ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 252 (1870) ; Sclat. Sf 



Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 538 [Yucatan] ; Sumichrast, La Natura- 



leza, ii. p. 37 (1871) [Vera Cruz]. 

 Ortalida poliocepbala, Sclat. {nee Wagl.) P. Z. S. 1856, p. 310 [Cor- 

 doba, Vera Cruz, Mexico] ; Cassin, lllmtr. p. 267, pi. 44 (1862) 



[Texas]. 

 Ortalida raaccalli, Baird, B. N. Amer. p. 611 (1860) [Nuevo Leon, 



Mexico] ; Dresser, Ibis, 1866, p. 24 [S. Texas] ; Laivr. Ann. Lye. 



N. Y. ix. p. 209 (1870) [Texas]. 

 Ortalida plumbiceps. Gray, List Gallince Brit. Mus. p. 11 (1867) 



[Honduras, Guatemala] ; id. Hand-l. B. ii. p. 252 (1870). 

 Ortalida ruticrissa, Sclat. ^ Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 538 [Sta. Marta, 



U.S.C.]. 

 Oi'talis vetula, Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 460 [Yucatan] ; Salvin, 



Ibis, 1889, p. 378, 1890, p. 89 [Meco & Holbjx Is., Yucatan 



Coast]. 

 Ortalis vetula maccalli, Coues, Key to N. Am. B. p. 573 (1884) ; 



Herrera, La Naturaleza, (2) i. p. 278 (1889) ; Bendire, N. A?n. B. 



p. 119, pi. iii. fig. 16 (1892) [Vera Cruz north to Lower Rio Grande 



Valley]. 

 Ortalis vetula pallidiventris, Ridgw. 3Ian. N. Am. B. p. 209 (1887) 



[Y'ucatau]. 



Different names have been applied to this species in different parts 

 of its range, but from the series now before mo it is quite clear 

 that all these supposed species are merely slight climatic varieties of 

 one and the same bird. 



Gray has distinguished the birds from Guatemala and British 

 Honduras under the name of 0. plumbiceps, and they are supposed 

 to differ from typical 0. vetula from Mexico chiefly in having the 

 tips of the five outer pairs of tail-feathers fulvous instead of pure 

 white ; but among our series I find two specimens from Teapa in 

 the State of Guerrero, S. Mexico, which so closely approach the 

 Guatemalan birds in this respect that it would be impossible to 

 separate them, while several other Mexican birds have dirty 

 whitish tips to the outer tail-feathers. 



Again, Sclater and Salvin have described a bird from the Valle 

 Dupar, Sta. Marta, U.S.C, as 0. rujicrissa, on account of its rufous 

 vent and under tail-coverts, but it is exactly similar to a specimen 

 from La Antigua, Vera Cruz, W. Mexico, and many other Mexican 



