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of broad lanceolate mesial streaks of white on the entire interscapulum, wing- 

 coverts and to a more or less extent on the alula, a small white spot at the base 

 of the secondaries, and much greater extent and development of the white 

 markings on the breast and abdomen. 



Measurements. 

 No. 

 speci- 

 Locality mens Wing Tarsus Culmen 



Males 



Florida 10 300-325(313.4) 108-140(129.5) 116-135(125.7) 



Isle of Pines 1 306 115 110 



Cuba 1 322 124 131 



Females 



Florida 4 303-316(305.25) 111-135(125.79) 117-126(120) 



Cuba 2 297-307(300.5) 105-132(118.5) 100-109(104.5) 



Not sexed 



Jamaica 1 300 101 95 



Range.— Southern Georgia and Florida Peninsula (casual north 

 to coast of South Carolina), Cuba, Isle of Pines and Jamaica. 



Specimens examined. — Florida: near Blue Springs, 1 ?; Bre- 

 vard Co., Id; Everglades, 1 chick; Florida Keys, 2 9 ; Fort 

 Myers, 2 d ; Hawkinsville, 2 ? ; Kissimee River, 1 d ; Lake Dexter, 

 1 ?; Lake Washington, 1 ?; Manatee Co., 3d; Sanford, 1 ?; St. 

 John's River, 5 d; Wekiva River, 2 d, 1 9; no locality, 19, 

 1 ?. Cuba: Cienega de Zapata, Id, 1 9 ; Aguada de Pasajeros, 

 1 9,1?. Isle of Pines: Cienega, Id. Jamaica: Great Salt 

 Pond, 1 ?. 



Remarks. — After carefully comparing a series of birds from 

 Cuba and Jamaica with a long series from Florida, I cannot find a 

 single character by which they may be differentiated. It is true 

 that specimens from the islands mentioned average smaller, but 

 these differences are slight, and since the birds are otherwise 

 identical I am obliged to disagree with the conclusion reached by 

 Messrs. Miller and Griscom x (who, by the way, do not seem to 

 have examined any Cuban material) that Notherodius holostic- 

 tus Cabanis can be maintained. 



Aramus pictus elucus, subsp. nov. 



Aramus giganteus auct. nee Bonaparte. 



Aramus pictus auct. nee "Bartram," necnon Meyer. 



Aramus vociferus auct. nee Latham. 



Aramus holostictus auct. nee Cabanis. 



Type. — Adult 9 , No. 70021, collection Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Sosua, Dominican Republic, 22 March, 1916. Collected by James L. Peters 

 (orig. no. 883). 



Characters. — Similar to Aramus pictus pictus (Meyer) but with the white 

 markings of the interscapular region less extensive, and absent or reduced to 

 mere narrow shaft stripes on the wing-coverts; averaging smaller. 



Measurements. 



Wing Tarsus Culmen 



Males 



Porto Rico 1 294 105 105 



1 Am. Mus. Novit., no. 25, 7 Dec. 1921, pp. 12 and 13. 



