BIRDS or NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



475 



f foreneck with a large tuft of elongated, rather broad, black feathers; 

 mderwing coverts ochraceous-buff; inner webs of remiges slaty, 

 adistinctly edged with grayish buffy; bill black, paler at tip; legs 

 nd feet dusky (in dried skhis) . 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 304-332 (320); wing, 111.5-120.5 

 114.5); tail, 164-182 (171.9); exposed culmen, 35.5-40 (37.2); tar- 

 us, 17-18.5 (17.4); middle toe, 13.5-15 (14.3).« 



Adultfemale.— Length (skins), 317-346 (331); wing, 112-119 (115); 

 an, 169.5-189 (179.2); exposed culmen, 37.5-38 (37.8); tarsus, 18.5; 

 liddle toe, 14.5.* 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Tolosa; Uvero) and 

 'abasco (Teapa), southward through Guatemala (Chixoy Valley, 

 ear Santa Ana), British Honduras (Behze), and Honduras (Lake 

 "^ojoa; between Lake Yojoa and Taulevi; San Pedro Montana; Santa 

 Jia; C^iba; Rio Seg6via) to northern Nicaragua (Chontales). 



Prionites carinatus Dv Bus, Bull. Acad. Boy. Belg., xiv, pt. 2, 1847, 108 (Guate- 

 mala; coll. Brusaela Mus. Nat. Hist.). 



[Cryptieus] carinatus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 165. 



Prionirhynchus carinatus Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 257, pi. 128 

 (monogr.; Guatemala); 1858, 357 (near Lake Yojoa, Hondurae; crit.); Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 263 (Lake Yojoa). — Solatbr and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 132 

 (Lake Yojoa). — ^Tayloe, Ibis, 1860, 117 (between Taulevi and Lake Yojoa, 

 Honduras). — (?)Salvin, Ibis, 1872, 321 (Chontales, Nicaragua; crit.). — Botr- 

 CAED, Liste Ois. rdcol. Guat., 1878, 26 (Guatemala). — Ridgwat, Proc. TJ. S. 

 Nat. Mus., X, 1888, 591 (Rio Segovia, Honduras). — Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xvii, 1892, 316 (Belize, Brit. Honduras, etc.). 



[Prionirhynchus] carinatus Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 102. 



[Momotus] carinatus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 81, no. 946. 



Prionomis carinatus Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, sig. 58*, 

 July, 1895, 468, part (Belize; Chixoy Valley, near Santa Ana, Guatemala; 

 Lake Yojoa; Rio Segovia; Chontales). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 xxxix, 1903, 143 (Ceiba, Honduras). 



[Prionomis'] carinatus Shaepe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 76. 



o Nine specimens. 

 ^ Three specimens. 



