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rence). — Menegaux and Hellmayr, Mem. Soc. N. H. d'Autun, xix, 1906, 

 101, part (type, from Realejo, Nicaragua, in Paris Mus.; crit.). 



Xiphorhynchus flavigaster ehurneirostris Oberholser, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 

 xlviii, no. 1579, May 13, 1905, 63. 



Premnocopus ehurneirostris Reichenbach, Handb. Spec. Orn., 1853, 186, pi. 603, 

 fig. 4059. 



Dendrocolaptes ehurneirostris Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 177, no. 2403. 



[Dendrornis'] ehurneirostris Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 68, 

 part. — Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 78, part. 



D[endrornis] ehurneirostris Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, 1859, 37 (Mex- 

 ico). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 839 (Mexico; 

 Guatemala; Honduras). 



Picolaptes validirostris Eyton, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1851, 75 (no locality given; 

 coll. Knowsley Mus.). 



[Picolaptes'] validirostris Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 179, no. 2447. 



XIPHORHYNCHUS FLAVIGASTER MENTALIS (Lawrence). 



GRAYSON'S WOODHEWER. 



Similar to X. f. flavigaster but decidedly paler throughout, the 

 prevailing color of pileum and hindiieck deep grayish brown instead 

 of blackish, that of back, etc., light grayish buff 3^ brown (nearly 

 broccoli brown) instead of raw-umber, streaks paler buff, and feathers 

 on middle of throat usually distinctly margined or edged with grayish 

 brown, often producing a broken patch of that color. 



Adult male.— heugtli (skins), 222-243 (231); whig, 103-119 (114.4); 

 tail, 81-100 (91); culmen, 3S-42.5 (40.4); tarsus, 22-23.5 (22.9); 

 middle toe, 17-19.5 (1S.2).« 



Aelult female.— Length (skins), 200-220 (214); wmg, 99.5-109.5 

 (106.1); tail, 75.5-90 (S2.7); culmen, 38.5-42 (39.7); tarsus, 21-23 

 (22.3); middle toe, 17-18.5 (17.7).'' 



Western Mexico, in States of Durango (Chacala), Jalisco (Las 

 Palmas; Barranca Veltran; San Sebastian), Sinaloa (Mazatlan; Pre- 

 sidio de Mazatlan; Juan Lisiarraga Mountains, 5,500 feet; Los Pieles; 

 AiToyo de Limones, 3,500 feet; Quotla, near Posario; Culiacaii; 

 Plomosas; Escuinapa; Rio Juan Gomez), Colinia (Manzanillo; Santi- 

 ago; Sierra Madre), Michoacan (Cayaco), Guerrero (Papayo), Durango 

 (Chacala), and Territory of Tepic (Santiago; Rio Santiago; San 

 Diego; Tepic). 



Dendrornis mentalis Baird, MS. Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., viii, 

 May, 1867, 481 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa, w. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. N. IL, ii, 1874, 285 (Mazatlan; Tepic).— Sanchez, An. Mus. Nac. 

 Mexico, i, 1877, 97 (MazatUin).— Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 

 131 (Presidio, near MazatUin).— Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 

 784 (Barranca Veltrdn, s. Jalisco). 



Dendrornis flavigaster mentalis Miller (W. De W.), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxi, 

 Nov. 24, 1905, 355 (Los Pieles, etc., s. Sinaloa; crit.). 



'^ Twelve specimens. b Eight specimens. 



