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Nelson, Ne-w Birds from Mexico and Guatemala. f^"'' 



Distribution. — The coast plains about Jaltipan and Minatitlan, \"era 

 Cruz, and thence north to Lake Catemaco, in the same State. 



Descriptio7t of tnale. — Lores, superciliary stripe, cliin, throat and sides 

 of head up to ear-coverts white ; a black band from near angle of gape, 

 below eye, running backward over ear-coverts to join black area of neck; 

 forehead and line along each side of crown black; middle of crown and 

 nape blackish with brown and gray edgings to feathers ; hind part, sides 

 and lower part of neck, with breast, glossy black; shoulders and fore part 

 of back chestnut, with narrow borders of black and then gray on each 

 feather; lower back, rump and upper tail-coverts blackish, finely marked 

 and mottled with olive, rufous brown and grayish white; the general 

 color much darker than in C. graysoni \ wing-coverts irregularly marked 

 with black, with white spots on edges of feathers; tertials similar in 

 general color to rump but with distinct white spotting along edges ; quills 

 dull brown with ashy borders on outer vanes; secondaries brown, trans- 

 versely mottled with grayish and buffy on exposed parts ; flanks, abdomen 

 and lower tail-coverts light chestnut, with heavy black borders on feathers 

 of flanks and abdomen ; these markings producing a broadly streaked 

 pattern ; under tail-coverts black spotted ; feathers on sides of crissum 

 spotted with white on each vane near tip. 



Dimensions. — Wing loo, tail 55, culmen 15, tarsus 29. 



This is a very distinct species and one of tlie most beautiful 

 in the genus. It is based upon five adult specimens and is 

 named in honor of Mr. F. DuCane Godman in recognition of his 

 valuable services to Mexican and Central American ornithology, 

 as joint author with Mr. Salvin ofthe ' Biologia Centrali- Americana.' 



Colinus insignis, new species. Guatemalan Bob-white. 



Type, No. 155516, U. S.Nat. Museum, Dept. Agric. coll., J, Nenton, 

 Guatemala, December 16, 1895. Collected by FJ. W. Nelson and E. A. 

 Goldman (Orig. No. 3299). 



Distribution. — Guatemala, near Nenton (and Valley of Comitan, in 

 Chiapas, Mexico.''). 



Description of female.— Forehead, lores and superciliary stripe united 

 in a buffy area ; chin and throat of s^me color; feathers on top of head 

 and nape black, tipped with chestnut, and edged on sides with buffy 

 gray ; a black line from angle of gape to ear-coverts ; ear-coverts dark 

 brown ; feathers on back of neck and fore part of shoulders chestnut, 

 heavily marked along sides with black and white spots and blotches ; 

 feathers on back, rump and upper tail-co\erts blackish, irregularly barred 

 and marked with dull, whitish gray and brown, and narrowly edged with 



