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Hab. Honduras, Segovia River (Townsend i) ; Nicaragua, Rio Escondido {Bichmond 2) ; 

 % Panama, Laguna de Pita {Festa *). 



We have not seen a specimen of T. excellens, of vphich Mr. Ridgway has given a 

 long description i, nor are we able to extract any diagnostic characters from his account. 

 He says that it is of the same group as Ticjrisoma Irasiliense {=T. lineatum of this 

 work) and T. salmoni, " with a feathered stripe along the inedian line of the chin 

 and throat," and therefore different from T. cahanisi. 



We must therefore await further material before we can decide on the proper 

 status of this species. 



3. Tigrisoma cabanisi. 



Tigrisoma tigrinum (nee Gm.), Sel. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 359 'j Taylor, Ibis, 1859, p. 151'; Scl. 



P. Z. S. 1860, p. 253' J Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 226 ^ Salv. Ibis, 1865, p. 191 \ 

 Tigrisoma brasiliense (nee Linn.), Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 63". 

 ngrisoma cabanisi, Heine, J. f. Orn. 1859, p. 407 ^ Salv. Ibis, 1866, p. 205 "j P. Z. S. 1870, 



p. 218 »; Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 520" ; Ibis, 1889, p. 376"; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, 



p. 280 '' ; iid. Exot. Orn. p. 95, t. 48 " ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 142 " ; Mem. Bost. Soc. 



N. H. ii. p. 311 '= ; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 49 '" ; v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 376 " ; 



Sumichr. La Nat. v. p. 233"; Nutting, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 406'"; vi. p. 379'°; 



Ferrari-Perez, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 170"'; Jouy, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. xvi. p. 788 ""; 



Underwood, Ibis, 1896, p. 450 ''. 

 Botaurus cabanisi, Fiasch, Abb. nat. Ver. Brem. 1870, p. 357 ^* ; Reichen. J. f. Orn. 1877, p. 251 ". 

 Heterocnus cabanisi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvi. p. 198 "^ 



Supra olivascenti-brunneum, plumis singulis sordide ochrascenti-fulvo anguste vermiculatim transfasciatis et 

 medialiter nigro lineatis ; remigibus nigricantibus, extus schistaceo lavatis et anguste albo terminatis, 

 secundariis extus brunneo vermiculatis et dorso concoloribus ; pileo cristato nigro ; facie laterali cinerea, 

 fascia nigra suboculari per latera guise nudse producta et albo variegata ; collo toto ochraceo nigroque 

 regulariter transfaseiafco ; gutture medio albo, plumis nonnullis externa snhistaceis vel rufis, cseteris nigro 

 transfasciatis collo concoloribus ; corpore reliquo subtus saturate ferrugineo, abdomine paUidiore ; tibiis 

 grisescentibus ; subcaudalibus scbistaceis ; subalaribus et axUlaribus scbistaceis, albo transfasciatis, 

 tectricibus minoribus ochraceo fasciatis : rostro nigro, mandibula virescenti-flava ; orbitis gulaque uudis 

 virescentibus ; pedibus viridescentibus ; iride flava. Long, tota circa 33"6, alse 14'6, caud% 5"2, 

 culm. 4-35, tarsi 4-45. (Descr. maris adulti ex Presidio, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 

 5 ad. mari similis. Long, tota circa 33-5, alae 13-7. (Descr. feminije ex Presidio. Mus. nostr.) 

 Juv. Supra nigricans, ochraceo late transfasciatum ; remigibus nigris, albo externa maculatis, intus fasciatis, 

 secundariis intimis ochraceo fasciatis ; cauda nigra, regulariter albo anguste transfasciata ; pileo coUoque 

 undique cum corpore subtus toto ochraceis, regulariter nigro transfasciatis ; subalaribus, axiUaribus et 

 remigibus intus nigris albo transfasciatis. (Descr. av. juv. ex Presidio. Mus. nostr.) 



Ila^. Mexico, Mazatlan {Grayson ^^^^), Presidio de Mazatlan {Forrer^^), Rio Verde, 

 Hacienda Angostura, San Luis Potosi (Jouy^^), Nuevo Leon {Armstrong ^^), San 

 Bias, Tepic, Tamaulipas, Tampico, Sierra Madre above Ciudad Victoria [Bichard 

 son^^), Vera Cruz {SalU^), Vega del Cazadero, Vera Cruz {Trujillo^% Vega 

 del Alatorre 21, Misantla^^ {Ferrari-Perez), Tapana, Chihuitan, Santa Efigenia, 

 Tehuantepec city, Venta Salada {Sumichrast ^% Tizimin, N.Yucatan ^s, Cozumel I.^^ 



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