KIKDS OK NORTH AND MIDDI.K AMERICA. 513 



A<h(lffe,„al,'.—\An\i^i\\ (skins), ISO-IOS (190); wino-, S5-8T (.S(i); tail, 

 84-01 (88); exposed culnion, 'I'l-'l^ ('2^2.7); tarsus, i>7-'28 (27.5); middle 

 toe, 17-18 (17.5). « 



Extreme southeastern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca ((xuiehieovij and 



Tabasco (Frontera; Teapa), and adjacent portion of eastern Guatemala.'' 



Campylorhyuchus zonatus (not Picolapte-'^ zonatus Lafresnaye) Lawrence, IJull. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 13 (Guichicovi, Oaxaca). 

 C[a)np!/lorhi/nchus} zonatus Salvin and Godmax, Ibis, 18.S!», 28"), part, in text 



(Teapa, Tabasco). 

 ireleodiflr.'i zonatus reslridiis Nelson. Auk, xviii, Jan., litOl, 4!» (Fr((nl(M'a, Tal)asco; 



coil. T'. s. Xut. :\rus.). 



HELEODYTES MEGALOPTERUS ( Lafresnaye ). 

 HUITZILAC CACTUS WREN. 



AdnlU {ibexes alll'e). — Pilcum and nape dull l)la('k or dusky, the 

 feathers margined terminally or tipped with pale grayish brown or 

 ])utfj brown (broccoli l)rown, pale drab, or pale hair brown), producing 

 distinct streaks or s([uamate markings;'' hindneek broadly streaked 

 with black and white; back, .scapulars, and uppcn- rum}) broadly banded 

 with dull black and pale grayish butf or dull whitish; lower rump and 

 upper tail-coverts pale l)ufl'v gi-ayish }»rown, more narrowly banded 

 or barred with blackish; middle pair of rectrices with inner web gray, 

 more or less banded or transversel}' spotted (of ten indistinctly) toward 

 base or margin witli l)lackish; outer web of middle rectrices and both 

 webs of all other rectrices black, broadly bandcnl with white, this 

 not reaching the shaft, and more or less tinged with pale gra3''ish 

 brown, especially on imuM' rectrices; wings ))hu'kisli, broadly l)arred 

 or banded with dull white; a superciliar}' stripe of dull butty Avhite; 

 a narrow postocular streak of blackish; lores grayish; suborbital, 

 malar, and auricular regions white or pale ])urty, narrowly streaked 

 with dusky; under parts dull white, more or less strongly tinged 

 withbrownish buff posteriorly, the throat, chest, breast, and abdonuMi 

 marked with large, mostly roundish, spots of dull black or dusky, the 

 flaid<s l)roadly barred or banded with the same, the under tail-coverts 

 broadly barred or spotted; maxilla ])lack or dusky, with paler tomia: 



«Four specimens. 



''There is a typical specimen, said tu be from (Guatemala (it has the usual "make" 

 of skins from that country), l)ut without definite locality, in the collection of the 

 American .Museum of Natural History. 



'In fresh autunnial or early winter plumuLre the ])aii' huffy, grayish lirown color is 

 more extended, the black showin<r as jiarfly concealed central spots or broad streaks; 

 in worn spriufx oi' summer ])luma'i(' this paler color is much ri'duced in extent, and 

 the general effect more streaked. In addition to the ternunal or external margin of 

 ])alc brownish tlie featiiers often liave a concealed spot or bar of the .same color. It 

 may lie fuithcr remarked llial llic color is more grayish anteriorly (tin the forehead), 

 more buffy posteriorly (on tlie nape). 



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