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Adidt female.— Wing 190; tail 60; exposed culmen 63; tarsus 84; 

 middle toe without claw 62 mm.^^ 



Range.— Knoyvn only from the type locality and the adjacent Pacific 

 coast of Guatemala (Chiapam). 



Type locality.— Bane de Santiago, Ahuachapan, El Salvador. 



Aramides aniventris (not of Lawrence, 1867) Shaepb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 



xxiii, 1894, 59, part (Retalhulen, Guatemala). — Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. 



Sci., xvi, 1896-97 (1899) , 219 ( San Jos^, Guatemala) . 

 Aramides alMventris alUventris Bangs, Amer. Nat., xli, 1907, 183, part (Chiapam, 



Guatemala). 

 Aramides vanrossemi Dickey, Condor, xxxi, 1929, 33 (orig. descr. ; Barra de 



Santiago, Ahuachapan, El Salvador). 

 A[ramides'\ vanrossemi Dickey, Condor, xxxl, 1929, 33 in text (crit.). 

 Aramides alMventris vanrossemi Griscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. Ixiv, 



1932, 120 (Ocos, Guatemala). 

 Aramides cajanea vanrossemi Peters, Check-list Birds of World, 11, 1934, 174.-van 



RossEM, Birds El Salvador, 1938, 159 (El Salvador, fairly common in April 



and probably resident in mangroves and swamp forests at Barra de Santiago ; 



habits; food; colors of soft parts). 



ARAMIDES CAJANEA ALBIVENTRIS Lawrence 

 WhITE-BEIUED WOOD-EAll. 



Adult (sexes alike). — Differing from the nominate race in the same 

 characters as Aramides cajanea mexicana but with the posterior edge 

 of the brown upper abdomen broadly white, the white forming a very 

 conspicuous band between the brown anterior to it and the black 

 posterior to it. 



Other plumages not seen or recorded. 



Adult male.—Wmg 182-189 (185.8) ; tail 60-66 (62.8) ; exposed cul- 

 men 64^65 (64.3) ; tarsus 79.5-82 (80.5) ; middle toe without clav/ 

 58-64.5 (61.5mm.).^= 



Adult female.— Wing 172-195.5 (183.9) ; tail 60-66 (62.7) ; exposed 

 culmen 58.5-64.5 (61.1) ; tarsus 73-81 (77.4) ; middle toe without 

 claw 54^59 (55.7 mm.). == 



Range. — Eesident from extreme southern Mexico (Campeche — 

 Champoton; and Yucatan — Las Bocas de Silam and Cozumel Island) ; 

 south through British Honduras (Belize Eiver and Mountain Cow) ; 

 Guatemala (Peten, Chiapam, Vera Paz, Coban, mouth of Eio Samala, 

 Choctum, etc.). 



Type locality. — British Honduras. 



2^ One specimen. 



^ Three specimens from Mexico. 



^ Four specimens from Yucatan and Campeche, Mexico, and Guatemala. Eight 

 unsexed birds from Yucatan and Guatemala show the following size variations : 

 Wing 175-182 (178.3) ; tail 55-62.5 (57.3) ; exposed culmen 58.5-67 (52.2) ; 

 tarsus 73.5-80.5 (76.9) ; middle toe without claw 52-62 (56.1 mm.)- 



