*256a. 
256b. 
256c. 
159 
blackish ; feet yellow. Less mature: head 
and hind neck white, the occiput mottled 
with blackish brown, 
Odontriorchis palliatus guianensis subsp. 
nov. [g near Paramaribo, Surinam, June 
11, 1905, B. Chunkoo coll., type in Tring 
Mus. }. 
Cayenne Kite. 
Smaller, wing ¢ 285-295, 2 312-322 mm. ; 
above deep black, head and hind neck 
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. 
Odontriorchis palliatus mexicanus subsp. 
nov. [¢ Tampico, Mex., June 1888, W. B. 
Richardson, Reg. No. 89, 4, 4, 46, type in 
Brit. Mus.] 
Mexican Kite. 
Wing ¢ 307-315, 2 320-340 mm. ; head and 
hind neck slate grey; above more slaty 
black ; under wing coverts black; upper 
tail coverts barred greyish white. 
Odontriorchis forbesi sp.nov. [Pernambuco, 
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. 
Surinam, 
Guiana, 
Trinidad, 
Venezuela, 
Colombia, 
W. Eucador, 
Brazil (N. of 
Amazon). 
Mexico and 
CentralAmerica 
to Panama. 
E. Brazil. 
