BTRDf^ OF NORTH ANT) MIDDLE AMERICA. 455 



sides, and flanks with light olive; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 plain buft"; maxilla black or blackish brown, mandible light brown 

 basally, dusky or blackish terminally; legs and feet dusky horn color 

 (in dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults but mider parts of bod*^" more buffy. 



Adult 7nale. —Length (skins), 123-130 (128); wing, 63-70 (67.9); 

 tail, 51.5-55 (53.6); exposed culmen, 12-13.5 (12.9); tarsus, 16-17 

 (16.6); middle toe, 9-10.5 (9.7).« 



. Adult female. —Length (skins), 125-134 (129) ; wing, 65; tail, 50.5- 

 54 (52.3); exposed culmen, 12.5-13.5 (13); tarsus, 16; middle toe, 

 9.5-10 (9.7).^ 



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

 zaba; Mirador; Buena Vista; Potrero) and Tabasco (Teapa), tlu-ough 

 Guatemala (Choctum; Cajabon; Coban; Naranjo; Lanquin; Volcan 

 de Agua; Retalhuleu) and British Honduras (Belize) to Honduras 

 (San Pedro). 



Mionectes oleaginus (not Muscicapa oleaginea Lichtenstein) S(;later, Proc. Zo(j1. 

 Soc. Lond., 1856, 296 (Cordova, Vera Cruz; crit.)- 



Mionectes oleagincus Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 112, part (Mexico; 

 Coban, Retalhuleu, and Volcan de Agua, Guatemala). — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Avcs, ii, 1888, 22, part (Cordova, Jalapa, etc., Vera 

 Cruz; Teapa, Tabasco; Belize, British Honduras; Choctum, Coban, Lan- 

 quin, Volcan de Agua, and Retalhuleu, Guatemala: San Pedro, Honduras). 



Mionectes assimilis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 46 (Cordova, Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater), 366 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); Ibis, 1859, 445 (Cordova; 

 Guatemala); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 213 (Coban, Guatemala; Mexico). — Salvin 

 and Sclater, Ibis, 1859, 124, 445 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 

 837 (San Pedro, Honduras).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 556 

 (tierra caliente of Vera Cruz). 



[Mionectes] assimilis Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 114, part. 



[Elainia] assimilis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 355, no. 5384. 



Mionectes oleagineus assimilis (not of Richmond, 1893) Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 N. H., X, 1898, 31 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; crit.). 



M[ionectes] oleagineus assimilis Hartert, Novit. Zool., ix, 1902, 607, in text. 



[Mionectes oleagineus] a. Subsp. assimilis Sci,ater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 

 1888, 113, part (Mexican, Guatemalan, and British Honduran references and 

 localities). 



[Pipromorpha] assimilis llvANK and Reichenow, Noni. Mus. llein., 1S90, Nl (Cor- 

 dova, Vera Cruz). 



PIPROMORPHA ASSIMILIS DYSCOLA (Bangs). 

 PANAMA PIPROMORPHA. 



Similar to P. a. assimilU, but smaller, olive-green of upper parts 

 brighter, and under ])arts of ])ody more wax yellowish. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 112-124 (118) ; whig, 58.5-67.5 (63.8) ; 



« Seven specimens from Mexico. b Two specimens from Mexico. 



