BIRDS OF NORTH AJNiJ MIDDLE AMERICA Oo 



15 mm. from the tip, which terminal area is crossed by three narrow 

 bars of brownish ; the rectrices also very narrowly edged with pale brown ; 

 chin and throat with buflfy down; lower throat like the underparts of 

 the body, darker and more barred with fuscous than in the adult female. 



Juveiml female.- — None seen. 



Adult male.— Wing 223-266 (247) ; tail 265-300 (282) ; exposed cul- 

 men 24.5-26.4 (25.6) ; tarsus 72-81 (77.7) ; middle toe without claw 

 48-54.5 (51.8 mm.). s^ 



Adult jemde.—Wmg 226-254 (240.1) ; tail 274-312 (289) ; exposed 

 culmen 22.5-26.5 (24.8) ; tarsus 67-79 (76.3) ; middle toe without claw 

 48.7-51 (50 mm.). 58 



Range. — Resident in the humid subtropical zone of the mountainous 

 areas of Chiapas (Finca Juarez, Mount Ovando, Tumbala, Santa Rita), 

 through Guatemala (near Antigua, Barrillos, Nebaj, Sepacuite, La 

 Primavera, Coban, Vera Paz, Volcan de Agua, Volcan de Fuego, El 

 Rincon, San Marcos) to the extreme southwestern part of El Salvador 

 (Cerro del Aquila, Volcan de Santa Ana; possibly more widely ranging 

 formerly in El Salvador and since killed off). 



Type locality. — Guatemala {ex van Rossem, Trans. San Diego Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., vii, 1934, 364). 



Penelope niger Fraser, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1850, 246, pi. 29 (locality unknown ; 

 type in coll. Derby Mus.). 



P\enelope] niger Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 194 (Coban, Guatemala). 



Peiwlope nigra Sclatee and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 224 (Guatemala). — Gray, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. London, 1860, 272 (Guatemala; monogr.). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 London, 1867, 160 (Volcan de Agua, Guatemala). 



P[enelope] nigra Reichenow, Die Vogel, i, 1913, 276. 



[Peiielope] nigra Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 251, No. 9495 (Guatemala). 



Plenelopina] nigra Reichenbach, Handb. Orn., Columb., 1861, 152. 



Penelopina nigra Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1870, 528, 543 

 (monogr.; Guatemala — Vera Paz, Volcan de Agua, and Volcan de Fuego),- — 

 Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 503 (Vera Paz, Coban, El 

 Rincon in San Marcos, and Volcan de Agua, Guatemala) ; Handb. Game Birds, 

 ii, 1897, 233 (monogr.).— Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 156 (Tumbala e. Chiapas).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amcr., Aves, iii, 1902, 277, part (Santa Rita, 

 Chiapas, Coban, Volcan de Agua, Volcan de Fuego, and El Rinc6n in San 

 Marcos, Guatemala). — Griscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ixiv, 1932, 100 

 part (distr. in Guatemala). — Peters, Check-list Birds World, ii, 1934, 21, part 

 (Chiapas and Guatemala). — Berlioz, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 2, xi, 

 1939, 361 (Santa Rosa, Chiapas; spec). — ^del Campo, Anal. Inst. Biol., xiii, 

 No. 2, 1942, 700 (Cerro Brujo, Ocozocoautla, and Triunfo, Chiapas; spec). 



[Penelopina] nigra Sclater and Salven, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 136 (Guatemala). — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 16, part (highlands of Guatemala). 



Penelopina nigra nigra van Rossem, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, No. 31, 

 May 31, 1914, 364 (chars., range). — Dickey and van Rossem, Birds El Salvador, 



' Five specimens from Chiapas, Guatemala, and El Salvador. 

 ' Eight specimens from Chiapas and Guatemala, 

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