BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult TOffl^e.— Length (skins), 393.7-457.2 (422.4); wing, 184.2-198.9 

 (189.2); tail, 195.6-235 (217.2); culmen, from base, 39.6-48 (44.7); 

 depth of bill at base, 14.2-15.7 (14.7); tarsus, 47-52.8 (61.3); middle 

 toe, 33.5-88.4 (35.8).^ 



J.(ZMZi{/emaZe.— Length (skins), 284. 5-355. 6 (322. 6) ; wing, 142. 2-158. 5 

 (150.1); tail, 129-165.1 (147.8); culmen, from base, 33.8-39.4 (37.1); 

 depth of bill at base, 11.7-14 (12.7); tarsus, 38.4^4.5 (41.1); middle 

 toe, 25.7-30.7 (29).' 



Southern Texas, and southward through eastern and southern Mexico 

 (including Yucatan and island of Cozumel) and Central America to 

 northern Colombia (Turbo); westward in southern Mexico to edge of 

 the plateau in States of Michoacan (Patzcuaro), Jalisco (Etzatlan, 

 June), and Guadalajara. 



Qwiscalus major Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxviii, 1819, 487, part 

 (Mexico). 



Quiscalus major (not of Vieillot) Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 110 

 (Mexico).— MoCall, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, 218 (Rio Grande, 

 Texas).— MooBE, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 58 (Omoa, Honduras).— Sal- 

 viN, Ibis, 1866, 194 (Half Moon Cay, British Honduras). 



Quiscalus maarourus Swainson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 299 (Real del Monte, 

 Hidalgo, Mexico).— Baikd, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 831 

 (Texas); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 554; ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), 

 atlas, pi. 58.— Oassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 138 (Turbo and Carta- 

 gena, Colombia); 1866, 410 (monogr. ). — Lawhence, Ann Lye. N. Y., viii, 

 1865, 180 (Greytown, Nicaragua); ix, 1868, 104 (Costa Rica). — Frantzius, 

 . Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 303 (Costa Rica). — Shmichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 i, 1869, 553 (hot, temperate, and alpine regions. Vera Cruz). — Coues, Check 

 List, 1873, no. 223. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 

 1874, pi. 36, figs. 1, 2.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 570 

 (Cozumel I., Yucatan). — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 152 

 (Izucar de Matamoras, Puebla, Dec; Plan del Rio, Vera Cruz). — American 



' Seventeen specimens. 



There seems to be little variation in size with latitude, though Nicaraguan speci- 

 mens are the largest and Yucatan examples the smallest in the series examined. 

 Average measurements are as follows: 



