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(bright orange in life), but sometimes brownish or dusky terminally; 

 iris brown; legs and feet yellowish or very pale brownish (in dried 

 skins) . 



Young. — Above brown, the pileum slightly duller, with feathers 

 very indistinctly^ tipped with dusky; the rump and upper tail-coverts, 

 scapulars, and interscapulars with mesial guttate streaks of dull 

 tawny-ochraceous ; chest and sides of breast grayish olive, broken by 

 large, central spots of pale buff; sides and flanks pale buff, the feathers 

 margined terminally with light olive; under tail-coverts immaculate 

 buff; abdomen and throat white, the latter somewhat obscured by 

 more or less extensive tips to feathers of pale olive. 



^(^wZ^wa^e.— Length {skins), 145-176 (159); wing, 76.5-86 (82.4); 

 tail, 62-71.5 (67.5); exposed culmen, 14-16 (14.9); tarsus, 30-33 

 (31.9); middle toe, 17-18 (17.2) .« 



Adultfemale.— Length (skins), 148-156 (150); wing, 74.5-79 (76.7); 

 tail, 60-64 (61.6) ;' exposed culmen, 14-15 (14.6) ; tarsus, 31-33 (31.7) ; 

 middle toe, 16.5-17 (16.6).^ 



Highlands of southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa, 

 Orizaba, Cordova, Jico, Texolo) and Oaxaca (near Totontepec) and 

 Guatemala (Duenas, Volcan de Fuego). Honduras? Nicaragua?? 



T[iird}(s] mclpomene Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 5 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz, Mexico; 

 coll. Berlin Mus.; ex Sylvia melpomene Lichtenstein, manuscript). — Lich- 

 TENSTEiN, Nomencl. Av. Mus. Berol., 1854, 25. 



[Tnrdus] mclpomene Gr.\y, Hand-list, i, 1869, 259, no. 3775. 



Catharus vielpomene Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 97 (s. Mexico; crit.); 

 1859, 323 (monogr.; Cordova and Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Guatemala), 362 (Jal- 

 apa), 370 (Totontepec, Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 1 (Orizaba; Guate- 

 mala). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 6 (Guatemala). — Salvin and Scla- 

 ter, Ibis, 1860, 29(Dueiias, Guatemala; habits; song). — Baird, Review Am. 

 Birds, 1864, 7, part (Cordova and Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Guatemala). — Sumi- 

 CHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 542 (temperate and alpine regions 

 Vera Cruz). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1879, 2, part. — 

 Seebohm, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., v, 1881, 288, part.— Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. H., X, 1898, 18 (Jalapa; habits; song). 



[Catharus] melpomene Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 1, part (Mex- 

 ico; Guatemala). — Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 1903, 180. 



C[atharus] melpomene melpomene Hellmayr, Journ. flir Orn., Jan., 1902, 45, 46 

 (Cordova, Orizaba, and Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Totontepec, Oaxaca: Volcan de 

 Fuego, Guatemala; Honduras ?; Nicaragua ?). 



Catharus aurantiirostris (not Turdus aurantiiroslris Hartlaub) Sclatek. Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, Lond., 1856, 294 (Cordova, Vera Cruz; crit). 



CATHARUS MELPOMENE CLARUS Jouy. 

 JOUYS NIGHTINGALE THRUSH. 



Similar to C. m. melpomene, but slightly lighter and less rufescent 

 brown above, gray of under parts slightly paler or decidedly clearer 

 or purer, and size averaging larger. 



O' Nine specimens. b Seven specimens. 



