BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 577 



more nifcsciMit (nearly ])r()uts lnowii) on niiiip and ui)[)('r tail-coverts, 

 the hitter narrowly harred willi dusky, hack and .scapular^s sometimes 

 (rarely) with very indistinct nari-ow bars of darker; feathers of rump 

 with lar<ie concealed roundish or outtate spots or streaks of white, 

 theii' basal portion slate color; tiiil brown (varyin*;' from dull russet- 

 l)rown or mars brown to a duller or moi'c orayish hue), barred with 

 dusky, the bars on middle rectrices usually ])roken or irrej^ular; wind's 

 similar in color to ttiil, but slightly dullei-, the greater coverts and 

 remiges barred with dusky, the brown interspat-es paler on outermost 

 primaries; tip of outermost middle coverts usually with a minute 

 mesial weage-shaped spot or streak of whitish; a narrow and rather 

 distinct but not sharply-defined superciliary streak of pale cinnamon- 

 ])utl'; a rather distinct broad postocular streak of brown on upi)cr 

 portion of auricular region; suborbital and auricular regions (except 

 ui)per part of latter) indistinctly streaked with grayish ])r()wn and pale 

 cinnamon-l)uti'; malar region and under parts cinnamon-lnitf or pale 

 butiy cinnamon, paler on throat and abdomen (especially the latter) 

 where sometimes inclining to white, deeper and more decidedly cinna- 

 mon or cinnamon-brown on Hanks, where sometimes indistinctl}' barred 

 with darker l)rown or dusky; under tail-coverts light cinnamon, tipped 

 with white or whitish, and })roadly barred with black; axillars and 

 under wing-coverts plain cinnamon-butl'; maxilla dusky brown or 

 blackish with paler tomia; mandibh^ pale brownish (in dried skins); 

 iris brown; legs and feet light horn brown (in dried skins). 



Aihdts hi autuiH)! and 'ir'niter. — Similar to the s])ring and summer 

 plumage but browner above and deeper colored l)eneath, the under 

 parts deep cinnamon-])uti'. 



Youm/. — Essentially like adults, but under tail-coverts plain cin- 

 namon or russet, pale superciliar}- and l)i-own postocular streaks 

 indistinct, and under parts duller brownish ])utiy (the throat, etc., 

 tinged with grayish), and feathers of chest and sides of breast nar- 

 rowly and very indistinctly margined with brow'nish. 



Adult , II (de.—ljangih (skins), 101-114 (108); wing, 48-58 (51.1); 

 tail, 32-38.5 (3«;.3); exposed culmen, 12-14 (13.2); tarsus, 17-19.5 

 (18.7); middle toe, 12-14(13.3)." 



Ad(dt ,/lw«Zr.— Length (skins), <)4-10<) (100); wing, 45-4S>.5 (47.8); 

 tail, 31-30 (33.5); exposed culmen, 13-14 (13.5); tarsus, 17.5-18 (17.8); 

 middle toe, 12-13 (12.7).'^ 



Costa Rica (San Jose; Santa ^laria de Dota; Monte Kedondo; Bar- 

 ranca; C'artago; Xaranjo; Birris; Tucurriijue), eastern Nicaragua 

 (Chontales; Rio Escondido). and -^outhein Honduras (Rio Segovia). 



Trogludi/leii iyitermedhis Cabasis, Journ. fiir. Orn., viii, Nov., ISHO, 407 (San Jose, 

 Costa Rica; coll. Berlin Mas.). — Baikd, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 142, part 

 (San Jose, Costa Rica). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 91} (San Jose 



"Nine specimens. ''Thret' speiimeiis. 



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