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and rounded, the third and fourth quills being longest, the fifth is longer than the 
second, which nearly equals the sixth; the first isa little longer than the longest 
secondaries. ‘The tail is long and much rounded, the feathers being rather narrow. 
The tarsi are strong, the toes rather short, the middle toe and claw being a little 
shorter than the tarsus. 
A. Caput stria verticali obvia, supercilits elongatis. 
a. Stria verticali fusca aut fusca nigro variegata. 
a’. Stria utringue rictali nigra. 
1.:Hemophila rufescens. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 2.) 
Pipilo rufescens, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 434°; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 486°. 
Aimophila rufescens, Sw. An. in Menag. p. 313°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.1i. p. 551°. 
Hemophila rufescens, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 182°; Scl. P. Z.S. 1858, p. 98°; 1859, pp. 365 ”, 380°; 
Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 18°; 1860, p. 34°°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 140"; Lawr. Bull. 
U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 22”. 
Embernagra pyrgitoides, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 97 ™. 
Geospizopsis melanotis, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 955“; Scl. P. Z.S. 1856, p. 806”. 
Supra castaneo-brunnea, dorso medio indistincte fusco guttato, capite summo castaneo utrinque nigro limbato, 
stria verticali rufo-grisea, superciliis et capitis lateribus grisescentibus, oculorum ambitu et striga post- 
oculari nigris, ciliis ipsis albis; subtus albida, pectore et lateribus ochraceo-griseo lavatis, stria utrinque 
rictali nigra; rostri maxilla nigra, mandibula pallida, pedibus carneis. Long. tota 6°7, ale 2°8, caude 
3°0, rostri a rictu 0°8, tarsi 1:0. (Descr. exempl. ex Orizaba, Mexico. Mus. nostr.). 
@ mari similis. 
Juv. Capite summo indistincte striato, capitis lateribus obscure ochraceis fusco striatis, corpore subtus flavido, 
pectore fusco guttulato. (Descr. av. juv. ex Duenas, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico ?> !8 (Sallé 15), Temiscaltepec (Bullock !), Guanajuato (Dugés 1), temperate 
region of Vera Cruz, Orizaba (Swmichrast*), Jalapa (de Oca", Hoge), Juquila, 
Villa Alta (Boucard®), Guichicovi (Sumichrast 1°); Guatemata (Skinner °), 
Duefias (0. S. 1°), Quezaltenango, Carrizal, San Gerénimo, pine-ridge of Poctun 
(0.8. & F.D.G.). 
A specimen from Orizaba, Southern Mexico, agrees accurately with Swainson’s type 
now before us; another from Jalapa has the back more distinctly striped with wider 
and darker streaks of blackish brown, the breast, too, is rather greyer. Specimens from 
the Guatemala highlands (Duefias, &c.) are rather larger than the type (wing fully 
3 inches); but a male from the pine-ridge of Poctun, southward of Peten, diverges most 
in having a very short wing (2°55 inches) and the mandible the same horny black as the 
maxilla. We have only one example from the last-named locality, so that we are not 
in a position to speak generally of the Hamophila of that somewhat peculiar region, 
one that belongs to some extent to the district of Yucatan rather than to Mexico 
proper or Guatemala. 
Hemophila rufescens was described by Swainson from a specimen obtained by 
