BIKDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. C)(')7 



MICROCERCULUS PHILOMELA (Salvin). 

 KIGHTINGALE WREN. 



Young f — Above deep sooty brown or sepia, brighter (dark mummy 

 brown) on back and scapulars, the feathers narrowly maroined with 

 dusky, producing a rather distinct squamate appearance, these dusky 

 margins becoming less distinct (sometimes obsolete) on lower rump 

 and upper tail-coverts; tail uniform dark sooty brown or brownish 

 l)lack; lesser and middle wing-coverts dark soot}' brown or dusky, 

 with a broad subterminal crescentic bar of lighter brown, this paler 

 on the middle coverts, on some of which the color lightens medially 

 into a rather distinct small spot near tip of shaft; greater coverts 

 dusky, broadl}^ edged with sepia brown, each with a small subtermi- 

 nal median spot of whitish or pale brownish buff; remiges dark sooty 

 brown or dusky, the secondaries very indistinctly edged with some- 

 what lighter sooty, the longer primaries indistinctly edged (in part at 

 least) with a more grayish hue; sides of head, chin, and throat dull 

 brownish gray, each feather of throat margined with sooty brown and 

 with a partly concealed central or basal spot of the same; chest, breast, 

 and upper abdomen similar, but with the soot}" brown margin and 

 central space broader and darker; sides, flanks, under tail-coverts, and 

 thighs sepia or bistre brown, more or less distinctl}' but irregularly 

 barred with dusky, especially on flanks; bill blackish, the mandible 

 more brownish basally; legs and feet dusky brown (in dried skins): 

 length (skins), 99-103.5 (101.2); wing, 55-57.5 (56.2); exposed culmen, 

 17.5-18 (17.7); tarsus, 20-21 (20.5); middle toe, 15-15.5 (15.2).« 



If I am right in supposing the birds described above to be in imma- 

 ture plumage, the adults of this form, like those of J/i daulias and 

 J/, hiscirila, are probably plain brown above and with more gray on 

 the under parts. 



Highlands of Guatemala (Choctum; Chisec; forests above Lanquin; 

 forests between Cajabon and San Luis). 



Ct/phorhinus philoinela Salvin, Proc. Zot)l. Soo. Lond., 1861, 202 (Vera Taz, Gua- 

 temala; coll. O. Salvin); Ibis, 1861, 352 (Choctum, Guatemala). — Sclater, 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, Suppl. no. 120 (Chisec, Guatemala). 



[Cyphorhinus] philomela Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 193, no. 2663. 



Mi crocer cuius philomcla Baird, Review Am. Birds, Aug., 1864, 114 part (Vera 

 Paz). — Salvix and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 76, pi. '^, fig. 3 

 (Choctum, forests above Lanquin, and forests between Cahabou and San 

 Luis, Guatemala).— Shari'k, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 297 (Vera Paz, 

 Guatemala). 



l^Mkruccrculus] philomela Sclatek and Salvix, Nom. Av. 2\eotr., 1873, 6. 



« Two specimens, neither of them with sex determined. 



