BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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pale yellow; legs and feet grayish dusky or horn color (bluish gray 

 in life); length (skins), 140-166 (155); whig, 65.5-77 (71.8); tail, 

 56-68 (62.2); culmen, 18.5-20 (19.4); tarsus, 25.5-29 (26.8); middle 

 toe, 14.5-17 (15.8).'^ 



Young female (first plumage), — Somewhat like the adult female 

 but duller rufous or rufous-tawny above; the pileum, back, scapulars, 

 and rump rather broadly barred mth blacldsh; underparts pale 

 buffy, deeper on chest, everywhere (except on lower abdomen) 

 irregularly barred (more spotted on throat) with dusky. 



Eastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Tampico; Alta Mira), 

 Vera Cruz (Playa Vicente; Jalapa; Coatepec; Cordova; Huatusco; 

 Choapam; Msantla; Orizaba; Mirador; TLalcotalpam; Otatitlan; 

 Papantla; Tolosa; Buena Vista; Potrero), Puebla (Teziutlan; Met- 



a Thirty-four specimens. 



