BIRDS OK NORTH AND MIDDl.K AMKRICA. 



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Adult ),iale.—\jO.\\gv\\ (skins), 91-107 (103), winu-, 51-58 (54.7); tail, 

 22.5-30.5 (27.7); exposed culiuen, 1-1:.5-1().5 (15.5); tarsus, 20-23.5 

 (22.2); middle toe, 13.5-15.5 (U.7)." 



Adult female.~-h(in\yXh (skins), t»0-10-J: (95); wing-, 49.5-54 (51.2); 

 tail, 21.5-27.5 (24.2); exposed culnien, 14-1(5 (14.5); tarsus, 19-24 

 (21.5); middle toe, 12.5-14.5 (13.9).^' 



Southeastern ]\Iexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Papantla; Cordova; 

 Ori/aba; Mirador; Buena Vista; San Andres Tuxtla; Motzorongo; 

 Papantla), Tuebla (Teziutlan; Metlaltoyuca), Oaxaca (Llano Verde; 

 Plava Vicente; (luicliicovi; Santo Doming-o), Tabasco (Teapa) and 

 ( ampeche (Apazoto), and southward through (]iuat(?mala and Honduras 

 to eastern Nicaragua (Los Sabalos). 



Scytalopuspronlheleucus SchATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1850 (pub. Jan. 2(), 1S57), 

 290 (Cordova, Vera Cruz; coll. A. Salle). 



CijphorinH.s proslhdeucm Scl.\tek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 04, 9(5 (s. Mexico); 

 1859, 363, 372 (Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 20 (Cordova; Choctum, Gua- 

 temala).— Salvin and ScLATER, Ibis, 1860, 272 ( Volcan de Agua, Guatemala), 

 397 (Choctum). 



Heterorhina proslheleum Baird, Review Am. Bird^^, .\ug., 1S64, 116 (Choctum; 

 Mirador, Vera Cruz). — Sumkhrast, Mem. Bo.«t. Soc. N. 11., i, 1869, 545, 

 part (hot and temperate zones. Vera Ci'uz). 



Ilenkorhina proslhdeuca Smakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 286, part (Cor- 

 dova; Choctum).— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 482 (Rio 

 Escondido, Nicaragua; habits). 



[Henicorhina] leucostida (not C\/phorhiims karusl'uiux Cabauis) Sclater and S.\i.- 

 viN, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 6, part. 



a Nineteen specimens. 

 *> Twelve specimens. 



Specimens from different geographic areas comi)are in average nicasuri'meuts as 

 follows: 



Locality. 



Ten adult males from Vera Cruz, Puebla, and Oaxaca 



Three adult males from Tabasco (2) and Campeche (1) ... 



Five adult males fnmi Chiapas 



One adult male from Honduras (Yaruca) 



FEMALES. 



Flight adult females from Vera Cruz and Puebla. 



Three adult females from Tabasco 



One adult female from Honduras (Yaruca) 



Ciiiai)as specimens are quite identical with those from Vera Cruz, Puebla, and 

 Oaxacu; Guatemalan examples (of which none of the nine specimens examined are 

 sexed) are somewhat brighter colored above, the back niorc tlu-stnut (but less so 

 than in Costa Rican examples, If. p. piUicri), though the pilciuu is grayish brown, 

 as in Mexican specimens. 



