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Alba, loris, remigibus ad apicem et fascia caudse subterminali nigris ; rostro nigro, cera plumbea, pedibus 

 fiavis. Long, tota circa 20"0, alae 14-5, caudse 9-0, tarsi 3-3. (Descr. maris ex Choctum, Guatemala. 

 Mus. nostr.) 



$ mari similis. 



Juv. capite summo eb cervice postica nigro striafcis, alis extus nigro variegatis ; secundariis plerumque nigris 

 albo terminatis, subtus medialifcer griseis nigro transfasciatis. 



Hab. Mexico, Mirador ( Ghiesbreght ^, Sumichrast ^^, Sartorius ^o), Huatusco, Uvero 

 {Sumichrast^'^), San Andres Tuxtla {JBoucard^), Playa Vicente (Ghiesbreght^), 

 Atoyac in Vera Cruz (Mrs. E. H. Smith), Chimalapa, Tehuantepec (Richardson) ; 

 Beitish Hondueas, Cayo (Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, Choctum, Medio Monte, 

 Savana Grande, Aguna (0. S. & F. B. G.); Hondueas (Mns. Brit.), Segovia River 

 (Townsend^'^); Ntcaeagua, Matagalpa, Rio Grande, San Emilio, Lake Nicaragua 

 (Richardson), Chontales (Belt^), Rio Escondido (Richmond ^^) ; Costa Rica 

 (Carmiol), Candelaria Mts. (v. Frantzius^), Naranjo (Boucard'^^), Reventazon, 

 Carillo ( Underwood), Jimenez (Zeledon ^^, Underwood) ; Panama, Bugaba ^, 

 Calovevora ^, Chitra «, Cordillera de Tole ^ (E. ArcS), Lion Hill (M'Leannan * ^^). 



This beautiful bird is found in Southern Mexico, but throughout its range it is 

 nowhere common. According to Sumichrast ^'^ it is most frequently seen in the woods 

 of the temperate and hot districts of Vera Cruz, but he does not record it from the 

 Pacific coast. In Honduras Mr. Townsend procured a single specimen on the 

 Segovia River in June ^^, and we have also an example obtained in British Honduras 

 by M. Blancaneaux from the high wooded land about fifteen miles south of Cayo. 

 When Sclater and Salvin ^ wrote their paper on the " Ornithology of Central 

 America," in 1859, the only known Guatemalan localities for this species were in 

 the Pacific coast-region ; since then we have found it at Choctum in Alta Vera Paz, 

 on the Atlantic slope. On the Escondido River in Nicaragua Mr. Richmond 

 procured a single .specimen i^, and M. Boucard obtained but one example at Naranjo 

 in April i*. 



Of its habits "fifithing has been recorded. 



2. Leucopternis princeps. 



Leucopternis princeps, Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 429, t. 24'; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 368'; 

 Ridgw. Bull. U. S. Geol. Surv. ii. p. 178'; Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 415'; Sharpe, 

 Hand-1. Birds, i. p. 259 '. 

 Urubitinga princeps, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. i. p. 320 '. 

 Supra ^turate schistacea, plumis omnibus leviter limbatis, ad basin maculis celatis albis notatis : subtus 



usque ad pectus schistacea, corpore toto reliquo et tibiis albo et schistaceo regulaiiter transvittatis ; 



subalaribus albis, schistaceo stricte fasciatis ; remigibus subtus griseis, leviter schistaceo transfasciatis ad 



basin variegatis ; cauda nigricante, fascia angusta mediana alba ; rostro corneo, cera et pedibus flavis. 



Long, tota circa 22-0, alffi 14'5, caudae 8-0, tarsi 3-4. (Descr. exempl. typ. ex Tucurriqui, Costa Kica. 



Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Costa Rica (v. Frontzius^, Van Fatten'^, Fndres), Tucurriqui (Arce'^). 



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