170 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Myailcstes obscurus insidaris Nelson, North Am. F;ni'i:i. tin. 1 1. ISUO, 59 (Tres 



Marias; habits; sone; crit.). 

 {MijlcdesUs] insidaris Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, iyu:5, [['.',. 

 Mi/adestes obscurus cinereus Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.., xiii. May L'9, 1S!)9, :>() 



(mountains near Alamos, Sonora; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 [Mmedfistes\ cinereus Sharpe, Hand-list, iv, 190.''>. 11!^. 



MYADESTES UNICOLOR Sclater. 

 SLATE-COLOKED SOLITAIRE. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Above uniform slate color, sometimes more 

 or less tino^ed with olive, especially on back and scapulars; tail (except 

 median rectrices) black, the outermost rectrix with outer web (except 

 basally) and terminal portion of second rectrix brownish gray, this 

 usually tipped or terminally maroined with white; remiges and larger 

 wing-coverts black, edged with slate color, these slate-colored edgings 

 interrupted on subbasal portion of secondaries, which is crossed by a 

 wide bar or band of black; lores black or slate-black; a longitudinal 

 mark of white on each eyelid; under parts similar in color to the upper 

 surface, but paler (more slate-grayish), usually more or less distinctly 

 paler on abdomen and chin (sometimes throat also), the feathers of 

 chest, etc., witli narrow and indistinct shaft-lines of paler gray; sides 

 and flanks tinged with olive; under tail-coverts brownish gray or 

 olive-gray margined with gra3'ish white; inner webs of remiges 

 crossed by a broad oblicjue band of white or whitish; bill black; legs 

 and feet light brownish (in dried skins). 



Adult rmile.—l.ew^{\\ (skins), 171-190 (183); wing, 91.5-99 (92.7); 

 tail, SO. 5-94 (85.4); exposed culmen, 10.5-12 (10.9); tarsus, 20.5-21 

 (20.6); middle toe, 14.5-15.5 (14.9). « 



Adult /fmr/i^.— Length (skins), 183-191 (188); wing, 95-97.5 

 (95.8); tail, 86.5-93.5 (89.5); exposed culmen, 11-12 (11.5); tarsus, 

 20-21.5 (20.7); middle toe, 15-15.5 (15.2).'' 



Southeastern ]\rexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Orizaba; 

 Jalapa; Motzorongo; Aolcan de Tuxtla) and Chiapas (Tumbala) 

 and southward through highlands of Guatemala (Coban; Choctiin; 

 forests of Peten) to mountains of northern Honduras (Santa Ana) .^ 



Myiaxlestes anicolor Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 185G (pub. Jan. 26, 1857), 299 

 (Cordova, Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. A. Salle); 397 (Coban, Guateniala; descr. 

 song); 1857, 5, 213 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); 1858, 97 (s. Mexico; crit.); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 47 (Orizaba).— Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 397 (Coban, 

 Guatemala; descr. song). — Sclater and Salvin, Exotic Orn., pt. iv, 1867, 

 51, pi. 26.— Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1866, 428 (Cordova; Choctiin).— Sumi- 

 chrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 548 (temperate reg. Vera Cruz). — 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 22, in text (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; 

 song). 



ff Four specimens. 

 '' Three specimens. 



•- The series of specimens examined is much loo small to show whether there is any 

 local variation within the range of this species as indicated abo\e. 



