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vermiculated with mikado brown; no crest on top of head; chin and 

 upper throat clothed in warm-buff down. 



Natal doiim. — Forehead and supraorbital bands grayish light ochra- 

 ceous-salmon, center of crown and occiput deep bright chestnut bordered 

 laterally by a broad line of black, laterad of which is a band of pale olive- 

 gray, which in turn is bordered on the outside (laterally) by a narrow 

 line of chestnut next to the ochraceous-salmon supraorbitals ; hindneck 

 like the occiput ; back with a spinal band of deep chestnut bordered with 

 black, otherwise pinkish buff; chin and upper throat pale pinkish buff, 

 lower throat and breast between cinnamon-buff and clay color; abdomen 

 white with a very faint ivory-yellow tinge; flanks and thighs cinnamon- 

 buff splotched with dusky.-^ 



Adult male.— Wing 370-415 (390.6) ; tail 350-408 (384) ; culmen 

 from base 32-44 (36.1) ; tarsus 81-90 (85.1) ; middle toe without claw 

 63-72 (67.2 mm.).^^ 



Adult female.— Wing 362-390 (380) ; tail 372-408 (385.5) ; culmen 

 from base 32-44 (36.1) ; tarsus 81-90 (85.1) ; middle toe without claw 

 65-70 (67.1 mm.). 2^ 



Range. — Resident in tropical forests from Sinaloa (Mazatlan, Escuin- 

 apa) and southern Tamaulipas (Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria, 

 Guiaves) south through Veracruz (Jalapa, Santa Ana) ; Jalisco (Tonila) ; 

 Guerrero (Omilteme) ; Oaxaca (Chimalapa, Rio Grande, Santa Efigenia, 

 Villa Alta) ; Puebla (Hacienda Atlixco) ; Yucatan (Yualahau, Yak- 

 Jonat) ; Chiapas (Tonala) ; and Campeche (La Tuxpena) to Guatemala 

 (Naranjo, Vera Paz, Retalhuleu, Santo Tomas, Sabana Grande, Volcan 

 de Fuego, Medio Monte, Raxche, Los Amates, Finca Sepacuite, and 

 Sacchich, Peten), and Honduras (Lancetilla Valley). 



Type locality. — Mexico. 



Penelope cristata (not Meleagris crisiata Linnaeus) Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encycl. 

 Meth., i, 1791, 171, pi. 84, fig. 2.— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. for 1896-7 

 (1899), 219 (Naranjo and Santo Toraas, Guatemala). 



P[enelope] purpurascens Wagler, Isis, 1830, 1110 (Mexico; coll. Monaco Mus.). — 

 Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1860, 269 (Mexico; monogr.). — Reichenbach, 

 Voll. Nat. Tauben, 1861, 149.— Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 276. 



Pe>ielope purpurascens Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, 61 (Honduras). — 

 ScLATER and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 223 (Guatemala) ; Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 

 1870, 522, 543 (monogr.).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859, 368 (Jalapa, 

 Veracruz), 391 (Rio Grande, Oaxaca, s. Mexico). — Salle and Parzudaki, 

 Cat, Oiseaux Mexique, 1862, 6 (Mexico). — Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. S, 

 Gallinae, 1867, 6 (Guatemala). — Sumichrast, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., i, 

 1869, 560 (tierra caliente of Veracruz).— Lawrence, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., ii, 1874, 306 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; Tonila, Jalisco); U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 



" Taken from a specimen in an early stage of the postnatal molt ; rest of down 

 already replaced. 

 '^ Eight specimens from ^Mexico. 

 ''* Six specimens from Mexico. 



