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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



wing, 113-130.5 (121.5); tail, 114.5-135.5 (126.1); culmen, 15-17.5 

 (16.7); tarsus, 12.5-15.5 (13.6); inner anterior toe, 12-14 (13.2).« 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male but lateral rectrices less 

 regularly barred (the pattern essentially intermediate between that 

 of the adult male and that of adult female), wing-coverts more 

 coarsely vermiculated, and chest witli greater or less intermixture of 

 dull slate color. 



Young male {nestling). — wSimilar to the adult female, but the 

 general slate color darker and more sooty, pileum black, and with 

 wing-coverts and secondaries more irregularly barred with white. 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Tampico), Vera 

 Cruz (Cordova; Orizaba; Jalapa; Omealca; Uvero; Motzorongo; 

 Colipa; Misantla; Los Cerillos; Atoyac; Play a Vicente; Valle Real; 

 Pasa Nueva), Puebla (Me thdtoyuca), Mexico ("near City of Mexico")? 

 Oaxaca (Guichicovi; Choapam; Cacoprieto; Chimalapa; Santa 

 Efigenia), Tabasco (Teapa), Chiapas (Huehuetan; Palenque; Tapa- 

 chula), Campeche (Yohaltan) and Yucatan (La Vega; Shkolak; 

 Peto; Izamal; Calotmiil; Tuiikas; Chichen-Itza) and southward 

 through Guatemala (Choctum; Yaxcanmal; Chisec; Teleman; Toll- 

 man; Duefias; Volcan de Fuego; Alotenango; Retalhuleu; Mazate- 

 nango; Santo Tomas; Gualan, Zacapa; Patulul, Solola; Naranjo), 

 Salvador (Volcan de San Miguel), Honduras (Omoa; Yaruca; Copan), 

 Nicaragua (Matagalpa; San Rafael del Norte; Volcan de Chinan- 

 dega; San Carlos; Leon; La Libertad, Chontales; Sucuya; Rio 

 Escondido), Costa Rica (La Palma de Nicoya; San Mateo; Turrialba; 

 Birris de Cartago; Naranjo de Cartago; Cartago; San Juan; Alajuela; 

 Las Trojas; Jimenez; Guaitil; vSan Jose; Angostura; Turrialba; Juan 

 Villas; Bonilla; Guayabo; Pigres; Boruca; Barranca de Boruca; 



o Thirty-seven specimens. 



