46 NE son, WVew Birds from Mexico and Guatemala. Auk 
Jan. 
Distribution.— The coast plains about Jaltipan and Minatitlan, Vera 
Cruz, and thence north to Lake Catemaco, in the same State. 
Description of male.— Lores, superciliary stripe, chin, 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. graysonz; 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 100, tail 55, culmen 15, tarsus 29. 
This is a very distinct species and one of the 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 of the ‘ Biologia Centrali-Americana.’ 
Colinus insignis, new species. GUATEMALAN BOB-WHITE. 
Type, No. 155516, U. S. Nat. Museum, Dept. Agric. coll., 2, Nenton, 
Guatemala, December 16, 1895. Collected by E. W. Nelson and E. A. 
Goldman (Orig. No. 3299). 5 
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 same 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-coverts blackish, irregularly barred 
and marked with dull, whitish gray and brown, and narrowly edged with 
