254 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



XIPHORHYNCHUS ERYTHROPYGIUS (Sclater). 



SPOTTEB WOODHEWER. 



Adults (sexes alike) . — Pileum and hindneck deep olive, the feathers 

 margined, more or less distinctly, with dusky and with narrow 

 mesial streaks of pale buffy; back and scapulars olive-brown (nearly 

 raw-umber), the feathers (at least the more anterior ones) marked 

 with a mesial guttate or broadly fusiform streak of pale buff; iTimp 

 and upper tail-coverts deep cinnamon-rufous, the tail similar but 

 slightly darker (chestnut); wing-coverts concolor with back but 

 immaculate; secondaries chestnut, the primaries also mostly chestnut 

 but outer webs edged with light olive-brown (those of the several 

 more outer ones wholly or mostly of the latter color) and with ter- 

 minal portion deep grayish brown or dusky; lores nearly uniform 

 dusky; an indistinct superciliary stripe (obsolete anterior to eye) of 

 pale yellowish buff, broken by dusky olive margins or edges to the 

 feathers; auricular region streaked with dusky olive and light yellow- 

 ish buff; suborbital and malar regions light yellowish buff, the 

 feathers margined with dusky; chin and throat buff, or yellowish 

 buff, the latter (sometimes chin also) with feathers narrowly tipped 

 with olive; rest of under parts light olive or buffy olive, each feather 

 with a large central guttate spot of light buff or yellowish buff, these 

 markings smaller (sometimes obsolete) on flanks; shorter under tail- 

 coverts light buff mesially broadly edged with light buffy brown, the 

 longer ones nearly uniform cinnamon to cinnamon-rufous; under 

 wing-coverts buff (more or less deep,) the inner webs of remiges 

 cinnamon-rufous, with terminal portion of longer primaries grayish 

 brown or dusky, that of outermost primary mostly of the latter 

 color; maxilla blackish or dusky brown to nearl}?- black, with a 

 tomial stripe of pale dull yellowish or whitish; mandible pale dull 

 yellowish or whitish (in dried skins); legs and feet horn color or 

 dusky (in dried skins). 



Adult 7n«?e.— Length (skins), 204-241 (227); wing, 109.5-125 

 (119.5); tail, 91-102 (96); culmen, 31.5-37.5 (34.3); tarsus, 23-24 

 (23.5); middle toe, 17.5-18.5 (18) .'^ 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 215; v/ing, 108; tail, 91.5; culmen, 

 30.5; tarsus, 21.5; middle toe, 17.^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; 

 Coatepec; Huatusco; Jico; Cofre de Perote), Oaxaca, Guerrero 

 (Chilpancingo; Omilteme) and Chiapas (Tumbahi), and through 

 Guatemala (Choctum; Cobiin; Chisec; Rio de la Pasion; El Rincon, 

 San Marcos; Las Nubes, Cerro Zunil) to Honduras (Yanica). 



« Three specimens, from Vera Cruz and Guerrero. 



b One specimen, from Chiapas. An adult female from Yaruca, Honduras, meas- 

 ures as follows: Length (skin), 195; wing, 104; tail, 82.5; culmen, 30.5; tarsus, 22; 

 middle toe, 18. 



