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Measurements. — Male: wing, 85-90 (average, 88); tail, 60-70 (64); 

 exposed culmen, 11. 5-13 (12.5); tarsus, 16-17. 5 (i?)- Female: wing, 

 83-89 (86); tail, 57-68 (62); exposed culmen, 12-13. 5 (12.3); tarsus, 

 16-17 (16.5). 



Range. — Northern South America, from Guiana, the valley of the 

 Orinoco, and central Colombia north through Central America to 

 Guatemala; a straggler in Yucatan and Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



Remarks. — Curiously enough, this very distinct apecies appears 

 not to have come to the notice of ornithologists until 1847, when 

 Jardine recorded it from the island of Tobago, but wrongly identified 

 it with C. talpacoti. In 1854 Bonaparte described it as distinct, his 

 type coming from Carthagena, Colombia, since which time the 

 numerous references from northern South America and Central 

 America are an indication of how common a bird it is in those regions. 

 There is not the slightest indication that it intergrades with C. tal- 

 pacoti, and indeed it is very doubtful if their respective ranges overlap. 

 Mr. E. C. Taylor's record of C. talpacoti for Ciudad Bolivar, Vene- 

 zuela, like Jardine's earlier one for Tobago, unquestionably pertains 

 to C. rufipennis. All Guiana skins seen, on the other hand, belong 

 to C. talpacoti. Messrs. F. P. and A. P. Penard, it is true, give both 

 species as inhabiting Guiana, but place nearly all their biographical 

 matter under C. rufipennis, although an examination of the text leaves 

 the impression that they were really uncertain of the propriety of so 

 doing. 



Chaemepelia rufipennis eluta (Bangs). 



Chamapelia rufipennis (not Talpacotia rufipennis Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. London, 1859, 369 (Jalapa, Mexico). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 

 N. Y., IX, 1869, 207 (Merida, Yucatan). — Sanchez, An. Mus. Nac. Mexico, I, 

 1878, 105 (Yucatan). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lo.ndon, 1883, 459 (Yu- 

 catan). — Salvin, Ibis, 1889, 378, and 1890, 89 (Cozumel I., Yucatan). — Sal- 

 vadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXI, 1893, 487, part (Atoyac, Huatusco, Playa 

 Vicente, Teapa, Santiago, Tierra Colorada, Acapulco, Tonala, Putla, Izalam, 

 Peto, Buctzotz, and Cozumel I., Mexico; Mexican references). — Laurencio, 

 Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Altonio Alzate," VII, 1894, 221 ("region caliente del 

 E. de Veracruz"). — Sharpe, Hand-List Birds, I, 1899, 82, part (Mexico). — 



series of females from these islands very carefully, as they comment on the absence 

 of any characters peculiar to the island birds. Should additional material show 

 that their peculiarities are constant and worthy of recognition in nomenclature, I 

 would propose for them the name Cha-tnepelia rufipennis nesophila, with No. 14,322, 

 Collection E. A. and O. Bangs (now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology) as 

 type. 



