BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



289 



maxilla deep horn color to nearly black; mandible pale horn color or 

 dull pale yellowish or whitish (in dried skins), usually with a stripe 

 (more or less distinct) of horn color along tomiuni; iris brown; legs 

 and feet horn color (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 176-191 (184); wing, 95-100 (98.5); 

 tail, 68-78 (73.7); culmen, 22.5-24.5 (23.8); tarsus, 23-24 (23.6); 

 middle toe, 16-17 (16.5). « 



Adult Jemale. —lQQ-193 (179); wing, 89-100.5 (94.1); tail, 63.5-81 

 (70.8); culmen, 21-25 (23.2); tarsus, 22-24 (23.4); middle toe, 15-16 

 (15.7).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Playa Vicente; Mira- 

 dor; Potrero, near Cordova; Buena Vista), Oaxaca, and Tabasco 

 (Teapa), and southward through Guatemala (Coban; Choctum; Caja- 

 bon-Peten road; Ranclio Tuilha; Samayoa; Los Amates, Yzabal), 

 British Honduras (Orange Walk; Toledo District; near Manatee 

 Lagoon) and Honduras (Omoa; San Pedro; Santa Ana; Rio Segovia; 

 La Puerta) to Nicaragua (Los Sabalos; Rio Escondido). 



Dendrocincla anabatina Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 54, pi. 150 (Omoa, 

 Honduras; coll. Derby Mus.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 162 (Oaxaca; 

 San Pedro, Honduras; Choctum, Samayoa, etc.. Vera Paz, Guatemala). — 

 Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 54 (Mexico; Guatemala). — 

 BoucARD, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 1878, 38 (Guatemala). — Nutting, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 404 (Los Sitbalos, Nicaragua). — Ridgway, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1888, 490 (syn.; crit.), 590 (Segovia R., Honduras).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 172, part (Mirador, 



a Eight specimens. 



& Fourteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALE.S. 



One adult male from Guatemala 



Five adult males from British Hondunw 



One adult male from Honduras , 



One adult male from N icaragua 



Ten adult males {D. a. saturata) from Costa Rica 



Three adult males {D,. a. saturata) from western Panama 



Three adult males {D. a. typhla) from Yucatan (2) and Caui' 

 peche (1) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Vera Cruz 



Two adult females from Tabasco 



One adult female from Guatemala 



Six adult females from British Honduras 



Two adult females from Honduras 



Ten adult females (Z>. a. saturata) from Costa Hica 



One adult female (Z). a. saturata) from western Panama 



One adult female (Z). a. typhla) from Cam peche 



16.5 

 16.5 

 16. 5 

 16. 5 

 16. 7 

 16.8 



16.5 



16 



15.7 



15.5 



15. 6 



15 



16 



16.5 



16.5 



8125.5°— Bull. .50—11- 



-19 



