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brown, the primary-coverts dusky terminally and primaries passing 

 into grayish brown or dusky at tips; tail clear chestnut; broad orbital 

 ring and supra-auricular stripe buff or ochraceous-buff; lores mostly 

 dusky or dark grayish, paler and more buffy (sometimes distinctly 

 buffy) along upper margin; auricular region dusky, more or less 

 broadly streaked with paler (except along upper portion) and with 

 very narrow shaft-streaks of buffy, this dusky auricular area passing, 

 in a more or less well-defined stripe, to the anterior portion of the 

 malar region; chin and throat, together with middle and posterior 

 portions of malar region, pale yellowish buff or cream-buff, the 

 feathers of lower throat narrowly margined, more or less distinctly, 

 with dusky; rest of under parts plain light buffy brown (sometimes 

 approaching wood brown but more yellowish or cinnamomeous), 

 passing into darker brown (between raw-umber and Isabella color) 

 on flanks, the under tail-coverts more rufescent; under wing-coverts 

 and broad edgings to inner webs of remiges ochraceous-buff; maxilla 

 dusky horn color, paler toward tomium ; mandible paler, whitish on 

 gonys (broadly); iris brown; legs and feet horn color (in dried 

 skins). 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 151-167 (160); wing, 78.5-91 (89.8); 

 tail, 64-75 (70.4); culmen, 15.5-17.5 (16.5); tarsus, 18-20 (19.1); 

 middle toe, 14-16 (15.1).« 



Adult female.— Length (sldns), 146-160 (154); wing, 76-88.5 

 (81.2); tail, 63-72 (65.8); culmen, 14.5-17.5 (16.1); tarsus, 17.5-19.5 

 (18.7); middle toe, 14.5-16 (15).^ 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; Uvero; 

 Omealca; Motzorongo), Guerrero (Omilteme), Oaxaca (Choapam; 

 Totontepec), and Chiapas (Tumbala; Chicharros), Guatemala (Bar- 

 ranca Honda; Savana Grande; Choctiim), Costa Rica (San Marcos; 



a Twenty-one specimens. 



b Thirteen specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Two adult males from Vera Cruz, Mexico 



Four adults from Guerrero, Mexico 



Two adult males from Chiapas, Mexico 



Two adult males from Guatemala 



Five adult males from Costa Rica 



Six adult males from western Panami (Chiriqul) 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from Guerrero, Mexico 



Eight adult females from Costa Rica 



Three adult females from western PanamA (Chiriqui) 



Middle 

 toe. 



14.7 



15.2 



15 



14.7 



15.2 



15.2 



15.5 

 14.9 



15 



