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ries grayish brown or dusky terminally; lores plain gray or dusky; 

 suborbital, auricular, and malar regions brownish buff or clay color 

 narrowly barred with blackish; chin and upper throat dull grayish, 

 the latter indistinctly barred with darker; rest of under parts 

 bro\vnish buff or light buffy cinnamon, everywhere barred with black 

 or dusky, the bars more hmulate or crescentic on foreneck and chest, 

 narrower and less blackish on posterior parts; under wing-coverts 

 light ochraceous or ochraceous-buff, narrowly and irregularly barred 

 with black; inner webs of remiges light cinnamon-rufous, the outer 

 primxaries passing into grayish brown terminally; bill dusky horn 

 color, sometimes nearly black terminally, paler brown basally, espe- 

 cially on mandible ; iris brown ; legs and feet horn color or dusky (in 

 dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but bars on under parts less sharply 

 defined, especially on posterior portions, the under tail-coverts more 

 rufescent. 



Adult male.— I j(i^gi\\ (skins), 248-289 (260); wing, 119-134 (127.2); 

 tail, 105-121.5 (112.9); culmen, 35-44 (37.9); tarsus, 26-30 (27.9); 

 middle toe, 19-23.5 (21.2).« 



Adult female.— l^engih. (skins), 250-276 (261); wing, 120.5-136 

 (127); tail, 105-122.5 (115.3); culmen, 35-38 (37); tarsus, 27-29.5 

 (28); middle toe, 20-23.5 (21.3).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Pasa Nueva) and 

 Campeche (Apazote), and southward through Guatemala (Vera Paz), 

 British Honduras (Belize; Orange Walk; Toledo District; near Mana- 



o Twenty-one specimens. 



b Twenty specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Two adult males from eastern PanamA 



Two adult males from western Panamd 



Ten adult males from eastern Costa Rica. . . 



One adult male from eastern Nicaragua 



Two adult males from Honduras 



Two adult males from British Honduras. . . 

 Two adult males from Campeche 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from eastern PanamA 



One adult female from western PanamA 



Ten adult females from eastern Costa Rica. . 

 One adult female from western Nicaragua. . 

 One adult female from southern Honduras. 

 Three adult females from British Honduras 



One adult female from Campeche 



Two adult females from Vera Cruz 



22.7 



21.2 



21.6 



20.5 



21 



20.7 



19 



22 



21.5 



21.4 



21 



22.5 



20.8 



20 



21 



