BIEDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 481 



mala; La Libertad, etc., Salvador?; San Pedro, Honduras). — Bangs, Bull. 



Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix, 1903, 143 (Ceiba, Honduras). — Dearbohn, Pub. 



125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 88 (El Rancho and Los Amates, Guatemala). 

 [Eumomota] supereiliaris Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 103, part. — 



Shaepe, Hand-Hat, ii, 1900, 76, part. 

 S[pathopkonts] supereiliaris Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Nov., 1859, 112 



(Guatemala). 

 [Spathophorus] supereiliaris Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Om., 1890, 



155 (Guatemala). 

 Eumomota supereiliaris bipartitus Ridgwat, Proc. Biol. See. Wash., xxv, May 4, 



1912, 90 (Cacoprieto, Oaxaca, s. w. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



EUMOMOTA SUPERCILIOSA AUSTRALIS (Bangs).? 



SOTTTHERN TURQXTOISE-BaOWED MOTMOT. 



Similar to E. s. lipartita in strong definition or abrupt separation 

 of the two differently colored areas on under parts of body, but 

 coloration paler throughout (the superciHary tufts usually much 

 paler, often silvery white in part), and bill relatively narrower. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 306-360 (334),- wing, 105-114.5 

 (111.1); tail, 185.5-211 (194.7); exposed cuhnen, 37-43 (40.1); 

 tarsus, 19-22 (20.7); middle toe, 15.5-17 (16.2)." 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 314-373 (329); wing, 105-115 

 (109.5); tail, 176.5-200 (185.5); exposed culmen, 37-40.5 (39.1); 

 tarsus, 20-21.5 (20.7); middle toe, 15-17 (16.1).* 



Nicaragua (San Gerdnimo; Chontales; Sucuyd; Chinandega; San 

 Carlos; Managua; boundary line between Nicaragua and Honduras, 

 180 miles from Pacific coast) and northwestern Costa Rica (Barranca 

 de Punta Arenas; Bebedero; La Palma de Nicoya; Bagaces; Mira- 

 vaUes; Bols6n; CoraUiUo). Salvad6r (La Libertad; San Miguel)?." 



(?) Crypticus apiastur Lesson,"* Rev. Zool., v, June, 1842, 174 ("San Carlos, 

 Americas centralis Oceani Pacifici"); Actes Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xii, no. 41, 

 Sept. 15, 1842, 193 ("San Carlos, Salvador").— Lafresn aye, Rev. Zool., 

 1848, 249. 



"■ Fifteen specimens. 



6 Ten specimens. 



<' Salvador lying on the Pacific elope of Central America, it is not unKkely that 

 specimens of this species occurring there belong to the present form. - I have not seen 

 Salvadorean examples, however. 



<' In view of the circumstance that Lesson mentions San Carlos in Nicaragua as a 

 locality where his brother collected specimens of other species, I am incUned to 

 beUeve that the type of the present form also came from the same place; but as Lesson 

 stopped at various places along the Pacific coast of Central America, it may be that 

 San Carlos in Salvador is meant. The oiJy San Carlos in Nicaragua that I am able to 

 locate on the maps is on the east side of Lake Nicaragua, near the upper part of the 

 San Juan River, but on the Pacific side of the eastern divide, though within the 

 Caribbean drainage area; and though no specimens have been seen from that part of Nic- 

 aragua nearer than Chontales to the northward, there can be little doubt that if the 

 species occurs there it is represented by the present form. Considering the doubt as 

 to whether the San Carlos mentioned by Lesson is really the Nicaraguan place of that 

 name, I follow Mr. Bangs in rejecting the name apiastur as the subspecific designa- 

 tion of this form, at least until an examination of Lesson's type (should it still be in 

 existence) proves that it really belongs here. 



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