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Adult male.— Wing 365-445 (388) ; tail 305-362 (331.3) ; culmen 

 from cere 27-33.5 (31.5) ; culmen including cere 46-58 (53.2) ; tarsus 

 113-127 (117.8) ; middle toe without claw 70-86 (76.8 mm.)." 



Adult female.— Wing 355-^10 (372.4) ; tail 315-345 (322) ; culmen 

 from cere 24-30 (27.2) ; culmen including cere 43.5-50 (48.3) ; tarsus 

 108-117 (112.4) ; middle toe without claw 70-80 (73.5 mm.).i* 



Range. — Resident in forested areas in the tropical zone from south- 

 eastern Mexico — southern Tamaulipas (Guiaves; Sierra Madre above 

 Ciudad Victoria) ; Veracruz (Misantla) ; Oaxaca (Tapana; Chimalapa) ; 

 Campeche (La Tuxpena; Champoton) ; Yucatan (eastern Ouintana Roo; 

 Puerto Morelos; La Vega) ; British Honduras (Belize; Cayo District) ; 

 Honduras (Lake Yojoa; Tigre Island; Comayagua; San Pedro; Lance- 

 tilla) ; Guatemala (local on the Pacific slope; Chilomo; Lake Peten; Los 

 Amates ; Naranjo ; Pozo del Rio Grande ; Panzos ; Rexche ; Santo Tomas ; 

 Savanna Grande; Sepacuite; Vera Paz) ; Nicaragua (Rio Escondido; Los 

 Sabalos) ; Costa Rica (Guacimo; La Palma de Nicoya; Naranjo; Rio 

 Frio ; San Carlos ; San Jose ; Sarapiqui ; Talamanca ; Valza ; Volcan de 

 Irazii; Volcan de Miravalles) ; and Panama (Almirante; Boquete; Canal 

 Zone; Cerro Bruja; Jesusito, Darien; Lion Hill; Obaldia; Perme) ; south 

 through western Colombia (Choco ; Bando ; Bagado) ; to western Ecuador 

 (Chongon Hills; Paramba; Bunliin). 



Type locality. — No locality given; designated as western Ecuador by 

 Hellmayr and Conover (Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 130). 



[Crax] rubra Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 157 ("America"'; based on 

 Gallina peruviana rubra Albin, Av., iii, 37, pi. 40) ; ed. 12, i, 1766, 270. — Gmelin, 

 Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1788, 736.— Reichenbach, Synop. Av., Columb., ii, 1837, pi. 

 17S, figs. 1523, 1524. 



Crax rubra Temminck, Pig. et Gallin., iii, 1815, 21, 687. — Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. 

 Hist. Nat., xiv, 1817, 582.— Stephens, in Shaw, Gen. Zool., xi, pt. i, 1819, 168, 

 pi. 9.— Bennett, Card, and Menag., ii, 1831, 225.— Lesson, Traite d'Orn., 1831, 

 484.— Reichenbach, Voll. Nat. Tauben, 1861, 139 (crit.).— Sutton and Bur- 

 leigh, Occ. Pap. Mus. Zool. Louisiana State Univ. No. 3, 1939, 27 (Tamaulipas). 

 — Sutton and Pettingill, Auk, lix, 1942, 10 (Tamaulipas; habits; nest and 

 eggs). 



C[ra.r] rubra Reichenbach, Voll. Nat. Tauben, 1861, 133, part (Mexico). 



C[raj] rubra Cubas, Cuadro Geogr., Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de los Estados 

 Unidos Mexicanos, 1884, 169 (Mexico; common names). 



Crax rubra ? Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1861, 301 (Panama). 



Crax rubra rubra Peters, Check-list Birds of W'orld, ii, 1934, 12 (distr.). — Griscom, 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ix.xviii, 1935, 303 (Panama).— Van Tyne, Misc. Publ. 

 Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan, No. 27, 193S, 10 (Uaxactiin, Peten, Guatemala).— 

 Aldrich, Sci. Publ. Cleveland Mus. Nat. Hist., vii, 1937, 51 (Cerro Viejo, 

 Azuero Peninsula, Panama; plum.; crit.). — Sassi, Temminckia, iii, 1938, 304 

 (Costa Rica; Bebedero; spec). — Heixmayr and Conover, Cat. Birds Amer., 



' Eleven specimens from Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama. 

 ' Seven specimens from Mexico. 



