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tail, 53-60.5 (56); exposed culmen, 23-24.5 (23.9); tarsus, 19.5-21 (20); 

 middle toe, 11.5-lT (15.9).« 



Adultfe)nale.—l^ength (skins), 133-117.5 (138.1); wing, 60-66 (63.1); 

 tail, 51-55.5 (53.2); exposed culmen, 19.5-23 (21.6); tarsus, 18.5-20 

 (19.2); middle toe, 11-15.5 (11.7).^ 



Central and southern portions of Mexican plateau, in States of 

 southern Chihuahua (Batopilas), Durango (Chacala), Michoacan (La 

 Salada; Patzcuaro), Jalisco (Ocotlan; San Sebastian; Zapotlan; Bolailos; 

 Guadalajara; Huejuquilla), Morelos (Puente de Ixtla), Hidalgo (Real 

 del Monte), Mexico (Valley of Mexico), Guanajuato, A''era Cruz (Jico; 

 Chichicaxtla; Orizaba; Mirador), Puebla (Atlixco), Oaxaca (Tama- 

 zulapam; Cuicatlan; Santo Domingo; La Parada; Santa Efigenia; 

 Tehuantepec; Mount Zempoaltepec), and Colima (Rio de Coahuyana), 

 and Territory of Tepic (Tepic). 



Thry othor us mexicanuft Swxi'SfiO's, Zool. Illustr., 2d ser., i, 1829, pi. 11 (Real del 

 Monte, Hidalgo). 



Trur/hxh/tes mexicanus hiCRTEtiSTEiN, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog,, 1831, 2; Journ. fi'ir 

 (3rn., 1863, 57 (reprint). 



T\_roglochjtes] 7nexlcanus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 159. 



Salpindes mexicarms GABAiiis, Wiegmann's Archiv. fiir Naturg., 1847 (i), 324. — 

 ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 212 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); 1858, 297 

 (Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 18 (Mexico). 



Slalpindes} mexicanus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 78. 



[SaJp 'metes'] mexicanus Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1882, 48. 



Catherpes mexicanus Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 356, part (in syn- 

 onymy); Review Am. Birds, 1864, 111, part (Mirador, Vera Cruz; Rio de 

 Coahuyana, Colima). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 172 (City of 

 Mexico). — SuMicHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 545 (temperate re- 

 gion. Vera Cruz). — Duges, La Naturaleza, i, 1869, 139 (Guanajuato; Guada- 

 lajara, Jalisco). — Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 268 (Tepic; 

 Guadalajara). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 72, part 

 (Mexican localities and references). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 

 1881, 280 (Puebla).— Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 76.— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 717, part (Mexico). 



[^Catherpesl mexicanus Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 6, part. 



Clatherpes] mexicanus Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 276, part. — Ridg- 

 WAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 549, part. 



{^Catherpes mexicanus] war. m.exicanus Ridgway, Am. Nat., vii, Oct., 1873, 603 

 (diagnosis). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 

 138. 



Catherpes mexicanus mexicanus Oberholher, Auk, xx, Ai^r., 1903, 196 (diagnosis; 

 range). 



{^Cj/phorhinus] mexicanus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 194, no. 2674. 



{?) Troglodytes murarius Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 2 (Yautepec, 

 Morelos; coll. Berlin Mus. );c Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 57 (reprint). 



{l)Salpinctes murarius Lichtenstein, Nom. ISIus. Berol., 1854, 35. 



Thriothorus guttulalu^ Lafresn AYE, Rev. Zool., ii, 1839, 99 (Mexico). 



« Fourteen specimens. 

 b Seven specimens. 



^'Probably an Indian artefact, the blue tail of some other bird (perhaps Sialia) 

 being substituted for that of Catherpes. 



