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ciTinamomeis : rostro albicante corneo, pedibus plumbeis. Long. tot. 10-0, alse 4-5, cauda 4-1, rostri a 

 rictu 1-65, tarsi 0-95. (Bescr. maris ex Cordova, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 

 ? mari similis. 



Hub. Mexico 3 4, Altamira, Tamesi and Tampico in Tamaulipas {W. B. Richardson), 

 Misantla and'Colipa {F. D. G.), Vega del Casadeio (M. Tmjillo), Jalapa {de Oca », 

 F. I). G., Ferrari-Perez), Cordova {Salle s), San Lorenzo near Cordova, Plan del 

 Eio, Hacienda Tortugas (F. Ferrari-Perez), Playa Vicente (Poucard % M. Trujillo), 

 Mazatlan25 {Grayson, Xantus, Bischoff, Forrer), Tepic^^ {Xantus), Santiago de Tepic 

 {W. B. Richardson), Santiago de Colima and Tecolapa {W. Lloyd), CJiietla (i^e/-- 

 /•cn-Pcre2 9),Temascaltepec {Bullock ^),Ch.\mdi\?i^&, Sierra de San Domingo, Tehu- 

 antepec {W. B. Richardson), Gnichico\i, Ishuatlan, Cacoprieto^, Tapana s, and 

 Sta. Efigenia 8 (/S'«mc/ims^), N. Yucatan i^, Peto, Buctzotz, and Tuloom {G. F. 

 Gaumer), Tabi {F.D. G.), Meco I. {Gaumer); Bbitish Hondueas, Orange Walk 

 {Gaumer), Southern Pine-ridge, Cayo and Belize {Blancaneaux) ; Guatemala, 

 Eetalhuleu {0. S. & F. P. G., W. B. Richardson), Savana Grande, between the 

 Volcanoes of Agua and Fuego, Choctum ^ '{0. S. & F. P. G.) ; Salvador, La 

 Libertad and Volcan de San Miguel ( fV. B. Richardson) ; Hondueas, San Pedro 

 {G. M. Whitely^'^), Truxillo {Townsend^^); Nicaeagua, Eealejo {A. Lesson ^^^), 

 Chinandega {W. B. Richardson), San Juan del Sur^^, Sucuya^^ {Nutting); Costa 

 EicA {fide P. G. Elliot lo). 



This is the commonest and most widely spread species of Pendrornis found in our 

 country, its range extending from the Mexican State of Tamaulipas in the north-east 

 and that of Sinaloa in the north-west, southwards to Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicar- 

 agua. Mr. Elliot, in his recent monograph of the genus, also includes Costa Eica in 

 its range, but omits to give his authority for so doing i°. 



Its range in altitude reaches from the sea-level to a height of about 4000 feet in the 

 mountains. It lives in the forests, climbing trees like a Woodpecker, and feeding on 

 insects. 



The bird of Western Mexico was separated under the name P. mentalis by Mr. Law- 

 rence, and has long been considered distinguishable from the eastern and southern 

 P. ehurneirostris ; but Mr. Elliot, after examining a large number of specimens, came 

 to the conclusion that the distinctness of the two could not be upheld. We are now 

 entirely of the same opinion, and, with an extensive series before us from all parts of 

 the range of the species, no separation appears to us possible. 



Birds from "W^estem Mexico are, as a rule,* paler than the average in the general 

 'tone of their plumage, but they can be exactly matched by examples from Tamaulipas 

 and Yucatan, and these are connected with the darker birds of Vera Cruz and other 

 places by gradual steps, the extreme formS often occurring, as on the Isthmus of Tehu- 

 lihtepec,in the saine district at the Saine time of year. Great variation also occurs in 

 size and in the dimensions of the bill, but also without reference to locality. 



Swainson's name for this species was based upon a bird sent by Bullock from 



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