BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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Adult female. — Pileum and liintlneck ])lain biifly olive-brown or 

 raw nml)er; tlie back, scapulars, rum]), and upper tail-coverts 

 lighter and less brownish olive; tail deep brown (sepia), the edges of 

 the rectrices brighter, more russet brown; general color of wings olive, 

 the ti])s of wing-coverts (broadly but indistinctly) more cinnamon- 

 brownish; sides of head, chin, and throat buffy, the former more or 

 less suffused with olive or olive-brown; rest of under jnirts tawny- 

 buff or clay color, deeper and browner, or tinged with olivaceous, on 

 sides and flanks; under wing-coverts deep buff or tawny-bufl"; inner 

 webs of remiges broadly edged with paler buff; maxilla horn brown 

 or dusky with paler toniium, mandible pale didl yellowish (grayish blue 

 to flesh color in life) ; legs and feet light horn color (bluish gray or 

 grayish blue in life) ; length (skins), SS-l 04 (96) ; wing, 51-56.5 (54.4) ; 

 tail, 31-37.5 (34.6); culmen, 12-14 (13.1); tarsus, 15.5-17 (16.2); 

 middle toe, 9-10 (9.7).« 



Immature male. — Precisel}^ like the adult female in coloration. 

 (Older s])ecimens show more or less of black on the throat, the lateral 

 portion of which, together with more or less of sides of head, are 

 slate-gray.) 



Young male (first ylumage). — Similar to the adult female but back 

 tinged with dark purplish brown, and under parts of body clouded with 

 dark purplish brown (seal brown or dark chocolate), the chest nearly 

 uniformly of this color. 



Young (nestUrig) . — Above uniform Vandyke brown, below uniform 

 russet. 



Guatemala (Choctum and Samayoa, Vera Paz), Nicaragua (Mata- 

 galpa), Costa Rica (Turrialba; Barranca; Dota; Naranjo de Cartago; 

 Grecia; Guayabo; Carrillo; Pozo del Pitiil; Pozo Azul de Pirris; 

 Bonica; Lagarto; Terraba; El General; La Vijagua; Tenorio), 

 Panama (Santiago, Santa Fe, Chitra, and Calovevora, Vertigua; 

 Boquete, Divala, and Volcan de Chiriqui, Chiriqui) and through 



a Fifteen speciineu;>, from Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama. 



