BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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XIPHOCOLAPTES EMIGRANS EMIGRANS Sclater and Salvin. 



GUATEMALA WOODHEWER. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and liindneck sepia brown to nearly 

 clove brown narrowly streaked with pale buff; back, scapulars, and 

 wing-coverts plain brown (nearly raw-umber or between raw-umber 

 and light olive), the upper back sometimes witli narrow shaft-streaks 

 of buffy; rump -and upper tail-coverts plain cinnamon-rufous; tail 

 chestnut, the shafts of middle rectrices darker; remiges lighter chest- 

 nut, or rufous-chestnut, the primaries and distal secondaries edged 

 (more or less broadly) with brown, the inner webs of longer and 

 outer primaries grayish brown terminally; superciliary region dark 

 brown, rather broadly streaked with pale dull buff or buffy whitish; 

 lores pale grayish buffy or dull brownish whitish; suborbital region 

 dull buffy whitish, the feathers narrowly edged with dark brown; 

 upper portion of auricular region narrowly streaked with dull whitish 

 or pale dull buffy on a dark brown or sepia ground, the lower por- 

 tion dull whitish or pale dull buffy narrowly streaked with dark 

 brown; malar region dark brown streaked (more or less narrowly) 

 with dull whitish or pale dull buffy; chin and upper throat dull 

 brownish white or pale brownish buffy, the latter faintly streaked 

 (broadly) with pale brownish; rest of under parts raw-umber brown 

 (paler and more fulvescent than back, etc.), more or less tinged with 

 tawny posteriorly (especially on flanks and under tail-coverts), the 

 lower throat, chest, and breast (sometimes abdomen and sides also), 

 with narrow shaft-streaks of pale brownish buffy or dull buffy whitish, 

 the abdomen (more or less distinctly and extensively) usually barred 

 with dusky and buffy whitish or dull pale buffy; under wing-coverts 

 ochraceous or ochraceous-buff, barred with black or dusky; inner 

 webs of remiges cinnamon-rufous, the terminal })ortion of outer 

 primaries (extensively) grayish brown; bill light horn color, more 

 dusky basally; feet dusky or horn color (in dried skins). 



Adult male. —Length (skins), 310-340 (318); wing, 135-140 (137.5); 

 tail, 118-123 (120.7); culmen, 44-50 (46.9); tarsus, 31-31.5 (31.4); 

 middle toe, 25-27 (25.7). « 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 290-324 (313); wing, 131-142 

 (134.7); tail, 112-131.5 (120.1); culmen, 45-51 (48.7); tarsus, 31-32 

 (31.5); middle toe, 25-28 (26.3).^ 



o- Four specimens, from Chiapas. 



b Six specimens. 



