BIRDS or NORTH AND JMIDDLE AMERICA 125 



less conspicuously different from the immediately adjacent more ante- 

 rior parts; back, rump, upper tail and wing coverts, remiges, and 

 rectrices as in adult, but the olive slightly less yellowish ; lores, cheeks, 

 auriculars, and sides of upper throat pale slate gray mixed with drab ; 

 chin and middle upper throat white tinged with pale cinnamon- 

 buff ; lower throat, breast, abdomen to vent, sides, flanks, and thighs 

 mouse gray, the individual feathers often terminally indistinctly 

 washed with tawny-olive, especially on the sides ; vent, under tail and 

 wing coverts as in adult. 



Natal doxon. — Not recorded. 



Adult Ttmle.—Wvag 163-174 (169) ; tail 63-63.0 (58.3) ; exposed 

 culmen 39.5-46 (48.7) ; tarsus 52.5-63 (59.5) ; middle toe without claw 

 43.5-47.5 (44.7 mm.).^* 



Adult /emaZe.— Wing 145.5-170 (163.6) ; tail 47-62.5 (57.3) ; ex- 

 posed culmen 37.5-46 (42.2) ; tarsus 50-60.5 (57.6) ; middle toe without 

 claw 40^7.5 (43.6 mm.).== 



Range. — ^Resident in coastal Mexico from Sinaloa on the west and 

 Yucatan on the east (Mazatlan, Estero Mescales, Castillo, and Rosario 

 River, Sinaloa; San Bias, Tepic; Acapulco, Guerrero; Mujeres Is- 

 land ; Los Bocas de Silam, Yucatan) ; south through British Hon- 

 duras (Belize) ; Nicaragua (Greytown) ; Costa Rica (Carrillo and 

 Lepanto) ; and Panama (David, Chiriqui; Lion Hill; Quebrada 

 Nigua) ; to Colombia (Barranquilla ; La Concepcion de Santa Marta; 

 Cartagena; Chirua) ; and Ecuador (Puna Vieja; Jambeli; La 

 Chonta) on the west; and to Venezuela (Puerto Cabello; mouth of 

 Rio Guarapiche) ; Trinidad (Caroni; Chaguaramas) ; and the 

 Guianas (Bartica, British Guiana) . 



Type locality. — ^Barranquilla, Colombia. 



0[rtygarchus1 mangle (not GalUnula mangle Spix) Cabanis, in Schomburgk's 



Reis. Britisch-Guiana, iii, 1848, T60. 

 (?) Ortygarchus rufiooUis (not Fulioa ruficolUs Gmelln) (Liohtenstbust, Nom. 



Mus. Berol., 1854, 96 (Guiana; Venezuela). 

 Aramides ruficolUs L£otaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 498 (plumages; common in 



Trinidad). 

 ( 1) Aramides rufloollis ? Laweence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, viii, 1865, 



178 (David, Chiriqui, w. Panamd). 

 (?) Aramides ruficolUs Lawbence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. New York, vii, 1862, 



479 (Lion Hill Panama; descr.) ; viii, 1865, 184 (Greytown, Nicaragua). 

 Aramides axillaris Lawbence, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbiladelphia, 1863, 107 



(Barranquilla, Colombia; coll. G. N. Lawrence); Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. 



Hist., ii, 1874, 311 (Mazatldn, Sinaloa; habits).— Sclatee and S.vlvin, Proc. 



Zool. Soc. London, 1868, 449 (Belize, British Honduras; monogr.).— 



SALviif, Ibis, 1874, 327 (n. coast Yucatan) ; 1886, 176 (Brit. Guiana).— 



BotrcABD, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1883, 462 (Yucatan).— Shaepb, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xxiii, 1894, 56 (Venezuela).— Chapman, BuU. Amer. 



"Eighteen specimens from Mexico and Colombia. 

 "Thirteen specimens from Mexico and Panama. 



