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aa. Interscapulars and upper wing coverts with no white streaks. ^ 



6. Bill longer, over 110 mm Aramus scolopaceus carau (extralimital) 



66. Bill shorter, under 110 mm. ^ 



Aramus scolopaceus scolopaceus (extralimital) 



ARAMUS SCOLOPACEUS DOLOSUS Peters 



Cbntrai. Amebioan Limpkin 



AdwU (sexes alike).— Similar to that of Ararrms scolopaceus pic- 

 tus, but with a white basal area on the secondaries which extends 

 on the outer web next to the shaft for a third to more than half the 

 length of the feather. 



Other plumages not known. 



Adult male.— Wmg 310-330 (319.5) ; tail 138-158 (144.3) ; exposed 

 cuhnen 106-125 (117.7) ; tarsus 117-142 (128) ; middle toe without 

 claw 83-95 (88 mm.).^' 



Adult female.— 'Wmg 300-305 (303) ; tail 134-138 (136) ; exposed 

 culmen 108-118 (113) ; tarsus 11&-121 (119) ; middle toe without claw 

 84^86 mm. (85 mm.)." 



Range. — Resident from south-central Mexico (Tehuantepec ; Vera- 

 cruz — Alvarado, Tlacotalpam, Uvero, and Santa Ana; Oaxaca — 

 Huilotepec, Santa Efigenia, and Cacoprieto; Yucatan; Cozumel 

 Island; and Quintana Roo) ; British Honduras (Belize) ; and Hon- 

 duras (Omoa; Martinez Creek, west of Tela) ; south to Nicaragua 

 (Ometepe Island; Sucuya; Lake Nicaragua), and Costa Rica (La 

 Palma de Nicoya; Rio Frio; Bolson; Bebedero; Guanacaste). Not 

 recorded from Guatemala. 



Casual in the lower Rio Grande of Texas (Brownsville). 



Type locality. — Bolson, Costa Rica. 



Aranius pictus (not of Meyer, 1794) Nuttins, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 409 

 (La Palma de Nicoya, Costa Rica) ; vi, 1884, 389 (Sucuya, Nicaragua) ; 396 

 (Ometepe, Nicaragua).— Baibd, Bkewes, and Ridgway, Water Birds North 

 Amer., i, 1884, 400, part.— Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 238, 

 part (w. Mexico to Panama ; specimens listed from Tlacotalpam and Cozu- 

 mel Island, Mexico, and Costa Rica).— Saivin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 333, part (Alvarado, Uvero, Tlalcotalpam, and Santa 



"Aromtts carau Vielllot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat, xiii, 1817, 300 (Paraguay, 

 ex Azara).— iJaiiMs giffas Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 78.— -Rami's ardeoides 

 Spix, Av. Brasil, ii, 1825, 72, pi. 91. — Aramus scolopaceus carau Peters, Occ. 

 Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v, 1925, 142 ; Checlj-list Birds of World, il, 1934, 155. 

 '^[Ardea] scolopacea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 647 (Cayenne). — 

 Notherodnis guarana Wagler, Syst. Av., i, 1827, [147].— AramH.5 guarana Des 

 Murs, Castlenau's Exp. Amerique Sud, Ois., 1855, 81.— Aramus scolopaceus scolo- 

 paceus Peters, Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., v, 1925, 141 ; Check-list Birds of 

 World, ii, 1934, 155. 



^ Six specimens from Mexico, British Honduras, and Costa Rica. 

 " Three specimens from Texas, Mexico, and Nicaragua. 



