HIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDOLK AMERICA. 587 



flocked or ))!iri'(Hl with tlusky; sides and thinks l)uirv hrown Inirrod 

 with duskv, sonietiines with ])ah>r Itars also; unchM' tail-covci'ts pah', 

 buff}" brown, tipped with white and bari-ed with (hisky: maxilla dark 

 brown or brownish blaek, with paler toniia: mandible ])al(^r brown, still 

 paler basally; h^g's and feet clear (usually li<itit) horn l)i'ownish (in 

 dried skins). 



Y<mn(j. — Similai" to adults ])ut under parts more uniform, with sides 

 and flanks ver\' indistinctly, if at all, barred, the under tail-eoverts 

 very narrowly and faintly baired, and feathers of breast usually nar- 

 rowly maro-ined with dusk3\ 



Adult 7/?^/A^— Leno-th (skins), 1(>5-11() (il<»); wing, 50-53 (51.2); tail, 

 40-44 (42.2); exposed culmen, 11.5-14 (12.6); tarsus, 18.5-20 (19.4); 

 middle toe, 12-14 (13.2).« 



A(hiU fetiiale.—l^engih. (skins), 110-121 (113); wing-, 49-52 (50.5); 

 tail, 41-44 (42.5); exposed culmen, 12-13 (12.8); tarsus, 18-20 (18.9); 

 middle toe, 12..5-13 (12.9).» 



Southern and central portions of ]\Iexican plateau, from States of San 

 Luis Potosi (near Jesus Maria), Hidalgo (Real del Monte; Apixaco), 

 Mexico (City of Mexico; Amecameca; Popocatapetl; Salazar), and 

 Zacatecas (Plateado; Monte P]sco))edo), southward through States of 

 Vera Cruz, Puebla, Morelos, Tlaxcala, and Michoacan to Oaxaca (La 

 Parada; Cinco Senores; near Oaxaca City) and Guerrero (Chilpan- 

 cingo; Omilteme). 



Troglodytes hyemalis (not T. hkmalis Vieillot) Sclater, Prof. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 185(5, 290 (El .Tacale, near Cordova, Vera Cruz, Mexico). 



{?)Troglod!/tes acdon ? Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 86:^ (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz)." 



Troglodutcs hrurmcicollis Sclater, Prot;. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 297 (La Parada, 

 Oaxaca; s. w. Mexico; coll. A. Salle); 1859, 372 (Cinco Senores, Oaxaca); 

 Cat. Am. Bird.«, 1862, 23 (Cinco Senores; Jalapa). — Baird, Review Am. 

 Birds, 1864, 144 (La Parada; Orizaba, Vera Cruz). — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Exotic Orn., pt. iii, 1867, 46, pi. 23, tig. 2. — Scmichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., i, 1869, 545 (alpine reg., Orizaba, 1,500-2,500 meters alt.).— Salvin 

 and (ioDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 103, part (La Parada and 

 Cinco Senores, Oaxaca; El Jacale, Jalapa, and alpine reg., Vera Cruz). — 

 Shari'e, Cat. Birds Brit. IMus., vi, 1881, 261. — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. C S. Nat. 

 Mus., ix, 1886, 136 (Teziutlan, Puebla).— Cox, Aulv. xii, 1895, 358 (Mount 

 Orizaba, Vera Cruz, 11,000 ft.).— Chapman, Bull. Am. .Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 

 39 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 8,000 ft.). 



[Troglodytes] brunncicollis Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 138 (diagnosis). — 

 Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 191, no. 2613.— Sclater and Salvin. Xomi. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, 7, part. 



T[roglodytes'] bruvneicoll is i^cL.\rEH, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, 18 (I.a I'arada, 

 Oaxaca).— RiDowAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 554. 



Troglodytes brunueicollis brinuieicollis Oijekitolsek, Pmc. I'. S. Nat. Mus.. xxvii, 

 no. 1354, Jan. 23, 1904, 200 (crit.). 



Hylemathrous brunneicollis Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 406. 



"Ten specimens. ''Six siRH-imcns. 



