BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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confluent on nape or lower occiput; liindneck grajnsh olive or olive- 

 grayish, passing into plain olive-green or l^i-ownisli olive-green on back, 

 scapulars, rump, and lesser wing-coverts; upper tail-coverts grajnsh 

 brown or grayish olive; wings (except lesser coverts) and tail deep 

 gra^dsh brown with pale olive edgings, these paler and more yellowish 

 on inner secondaries ; loral, orbital, malar, and auricular regions dusky, 

 the last with minute shaft-streaks of paler; chin and throat white or 

 yellowish white; rest of under parts, including axillars and under 

 wing-coverts, uniform bright canary or lemon yellow; inner weljs of 

 remiges broadly edged with yellowish bufl"; bill, legs, and feet black; 

 iris brown. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but without red on crown, cok)r of 

 back, etc., more grayish brown (not olive-greenish), rectrices broadly 

 edged (on both webs) and terminally margined with cinnamon or pale 

 russet, remiges edged with the same, greater wing-coverts edged with 

 cinnamon or cinnamon-buff, and middle coverts margined wdth the 

 same. 



Adult male.— hength (skins), 155-186 (165); wing, 89.5-97 (93.4); 

 tail, 69.5-78 (73.9); exposed culmen, 13.5-15 (14.5); tarsus, 17.5-20 

 (18.4); middle toe, 11.5-14 (13).« 



Adultfemale.—hengtli (skins), 151-173 (162); wing, 86-96.5 (90.3); 

 tail, 65.5-77.5 (71.1); exposed culmen, 13-15 (14.1); tarsus, 17.5-20.5 

 (19.1); middle toe, 12-13.5 (13.1).^ 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; Ori- 

 zaba; Mirador; Jico), Puebla (Chietla), Michoacan (Los Reyes), 

 Jalisco (Ocotlan), Sinaloa (Escuinapa; Mazatlan), Colima (Plains of 

 Colima; Manzanillo), Guerrero (Acapulco; El Limon), Oaxaca (Chi- 

 huitan; Juchitan; Santa Efigenia), Yucatan (Chichen-Itza ; Temax; 

 La Vega; Merida), and Chiapas (Tapachula), through Guatemala 

 (Duenas; Palin; San Geronimo; San Jose; Secanquim), Honduras 

 (Ceiba; Yaruca; Truxillo; Segovia River; San Pedro) and Nica- 

 ragua (Greytown; Rio Escondido; San Carlos; Sucuya; Los Sabalos; 



a Eighteen specimens. 

 '> Sixteen specimens. 



