159 



blackish ; feet yellow. Less mature : head 

 and hind neck white, the occiput mottled 

 with blackish brown, 



*256a. OdontriorcMs palliatus guianensis subsp. Surinam, 



nov. [(J near Paramaribo, Surinam, June Guiana, 



11, 1905, B. Chunkoo coll., type in Tring Trinidad, 



Mus.]. Venezuela, 



Cayenne Kite. Colombia. 



Smaller, wing <S 285-295, ? 312-322 mm. ; Brazil (N. of 

 above deep black, head and hind neck Amazon), 

 much darker, blackish slate ; upper tail 

 coverts with no visible bars, only con- 

 cealed spots of white ; under wing-coverts 

 jet black, but edges of wing white. 



256b. OdontriorcMs palliatus mexicanus subsp. 

 nov. [c? Tampico, Mex.. June 1888, W. B. 

 Richardson, Reg. No. 89, 4, 4, 46, type in 

 Brit. Mus.] 

 Mexican Kite. 



Wing S 307-315, ? 320-340 mm. ; head and 

 hind neck slate grey ; above more slaty 

 black ; under wing coverts black ; upper 

 tail coverts barred greyish white. 



Mexico and 

 CentralAmerica 

 to Panama. 



256c. OdontriorcMs forbesi sp. nov. [Pernambuco, E. Brazil. 

 Braz., W. A. Forbes, 1882, type in Brit. 

 Mus., No. 87, 5, 1, 723.] 

 Forbes's Kite. 



Wing ad. 331, tail 245 mm. ; above black ; 

 mantle spotted and secondaries broadly 

 tipped with white ; wing quills barred with 

 slate ; tail black, with very broad ashy 

 white median band (70-80 mm.) and broadly 

 tipped with same ; head pale slaty grey, 

 hind neck whiter ; below (including under 

 wing-coverts) white. 



