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feather with a broad median area of light neutral gray; lower hindneck, 

 sides of lower neck, scapulars, interscapulars, upper wing coverts, back, 

 rump, upper tail coverts, and breast light brownish olive to deep olive ; 

 primaries olive-brown, externally washed with deep olive ; outer seconda- 

 ries dark olive internally, deep olive with a very faint oily green sheen 

 externally, the inner secondaries deep olive v/ith an almost imperceptible 

 oily green sheen; rectrices deep olivaceous-black with a dark blue-green 

 sheen, the middle pair uniformly of this color, the next pair narrowly 

 tipped with chestnut, the lateral pairs very broadly (35-50 mm.) tipped 

 with chestnut ; abdomen, sides, flanks, thighs, and under tail coverts deep 

 hazel to russet; iris reddish hazel; bill "med(ium?) horn" (Batty); 

 tarsi and toes brownish lead; bare skin around eye reddish blue, nude 

 throat areas red. 



Juvenal (female only seen, but sexes probably alike). — Similar to 

 the adult but the upperparts of the body and wings browner, less olive — ■ 

 deep Saccardo's umber to sepia; rectrices pointed and not tipped with 

 bright chestnut but merely very faintly freckled with tawny terminally; 

 remiges clove brown externally edged with sepia. 



Downy young. — None seen. 



Adult male.—'Wmg 250-289 (262.7); tail 269-307 (287.1); exposed 

 culmen 25-28 (26) ; tarsus 69-80 (74) ; middle toe without claw 

 53-60 (56.9 mm.)." 



Adult female.— Wing 238-260 (252.1) ; tail 269-294 (281.6) ; ex- 

 posed culmen 23-27 (24.5) ; tarsus 69-79 (73.6) ; middle toe without 

 claw 49-60 (54.8).«2 



Range. — Resident from central and southern Sinaloa (Escuinapa, 

 Mazatlan, Labrados, and Limoncito) to Durango (Chacala and Sayapa), 

 Jalisco (Bahia de Banderas), and Nayarit (San Bias, Rancho San Pablo, 

 and Santiago, Tepic). 



Type locality. — "Western Mexico"; restricted to San Bias, Nayarit 

 (van Rossem, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixxvii, 1934, 431). 



Ortalida wagleri Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, Gallinae, 1867, 12 (w. Mexico; 

 coll. Brit. Mus.). — ScLATER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 534 

 (monogr.). — Lawrence, Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., ii, 1874, 306, part 

 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa; fresh colors of nude parts; geogr. range). — Beristain and 

 LAtTRENCio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzata," vii, 1894, 220 (Sinaloa). 



[Ortalida] wagleri Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 282, No. 950S. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 543; Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 136. 



0[rtalida] waglerii Cubas, Cuadro Geogr., Estadistico, Descr. e Hist, de los Estados 

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



Ortalis wagleri Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 507 (Presidio de 

 Mazatlan, Sinaloa ; San Bias and Santiago, Tepic) ; Handb. Game Birds, ii, 

 1897, 237, pi. 39 (monogr.).— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. for 1896-7 



" Eight specimens from Durango, Sinaloa, and Tepic. 

 •" Seven specimens from Durango, Sinaloa, and Jahsco. 



