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BULLETIN 114, TJlsriTED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The present material is too poorly distributed to show anything 

 about variation in caudals or tail length, since the numbers for aver- 

 ages are too much reduced by the necessity of treating the sexes 

 separately. 



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The number of yellow annuh of the color pattern is so variable that 

 Httle can be said beyond calling attention to the fact that the averages 

 for a few localities vary in the same sense as the averages for the 

 ventrals — Vera Cruz, 25; Guatemala, 31; Nicaragua, 24; Costa Rica, 

 26; Panama to Ecuador, IS. 



