BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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palo wood brown or dull browni.sli huff; maxilla black or dusky, with 

 palor toniia; mandible dull whitisli or pale brownish hutiy (in di-icd 

 skins); legs and feet pale brownish (in dried skins). 



J^oung." — Pileum and hindncck plain dark hair l)rown or dull broc- 

 coli brown; interscapulars dusky brown, with narrow and mostly 

 indistinct shaft-streaks of whitish; rump and upper tail-coverts plain 

 wood brown; otherwise essentially like adults. 



Adu/t'/jia/e.—ljQngth (skins), 98-101) (104.3); wing, 41-43.5 (12.5); 

 tail, 38-12 (10.2); exposed culmen, 10.5-11.5 (11); tarsus, 17-19 (18); 

 middle toe, 12-13 (12.5).'^ 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 105; wing, -12; tail, 39; exposed cul- 

 men, 11.5; tarsus, 18; middle toe, 13.*^ 



Eastern Mexico, in State of Vera Cruz (Orizaba; Jalapa), and south- 

 ward through Chiapas (Palenque; Ocuilapa), highlands of Guatemala 

 (Lake of Duefias; summit of Volcan de Agua), and British Honduras 

 (southern pine ridge). 



Cistothorus elegans Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1st ser., i, Jan., 1859, 8 (Lake of 

 Duefias, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman); 1860, 30 (do.). — Baird, 

 Review Ani. Birds, 1864, 146 (Duefias; Orizaba, Vera Cruz). — Salvix and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, pi. 7, fig. 3. 



[^Cistothorus] elegans Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 7, part. 



C[_isfothorits'] elegans Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 159. 



[CistotJiorus steU((ris'] h. elegans Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 3(5 (synonymy); Birds 

 Col. Yal., 1878, 180 (do.). 



« Described from a specimen from Ocuilapa, Chiapas (no. 143068, coll. TJ. S. Nat. 



Mus.). 



^ Six specimens. 



<"One specimen, from Orizaba, Vera Cruz. 



Specimens from Vera Cruz (Orizaba and Jalaim) compare in average measurements 

 with those from Chiapas (Palenque and Ocuilapa) as follows: 



Tlie material examined is unfortunately scant, but such as it is seems to indicate 

 snbspecific difference between the birds from Vera Cruz, on the one hand, and 

 those from Chiapas and (luatemala on the other. Comparing two of the former 

 (an adidt male and female) in worn breeding plumage with five of the latter in 

 exactly similar eondition, it is found that the two Vera Cruz birds have the pileum 

 and hindneck dull l)lackish brown or dusky (exeept the central portion of the fore- 

 head and extreme lower hindneck), while those from Chiapas and Ciuatemala have 

 the same i^arts light grayish l)rown. The single Vera Cruz specimen (from Jalapa, 

 April 15) in unworn jdumage, however, has the pileum and hindneck light brown, 

 except along lateral margin; but there is no Cliiapas nor (iuatemalan specimen in 

 unworn i>lumage witli which to compare it. 



