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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



ii'realer wing-coverts dusky, broadly tipped with ochraceoiis, ochra- 

 ceoiis-buff, or clay color; remiges dusky, edged with yellowish olive, 

 the edgings broader and more yellowish on inner secondaries C'ter- 

 tials " ) ; lores pale olive-yellowish or olive-whitish, flecked with dusky ; 

 terminal portion of auricular region uniformly dusky, the anterior 

 portion light olive with narrow shaft-streaks of pale olive-yellowish or 

 olive-whitish ; chin and throat pale grayish-olive, more or less tinged 

 with pale yellowish, the chest rather deeper and more decidedly olive, 

 the feathers, especialh^ on cliin and throat, with very narrow and 

 indistinct shaft-streaks of paler; rest of under parts pale yellow 

 (primrose to between straw and sulphur yellow), the under tail- 

 coverts more buffy ; axillars and under wing-coverts light buft'-yellow 

 or maize yellow, the inner webs of remiges edged with light orange- 

 buft"; l)ill dusky brown, the basal portion of mandible pale brow^nish 

 or whitish (in dried skins) ; legs and feet brown or horn color (in dried 

 skins) . 



Adult male.— Ijength (skins), 114-115 (114.S); wing, 63-65 (64.2); 

 tail, 52.5-56.5 (54); exposed culmen, 13; tarsus, 14.5-16 (15.2); 

 middle toe, S."' 



Adult female.— hengtli (skins), 122-123 (122.5); wing, 61; tail, 

 48.5-51.5 (50); exposed culmen, 12.5-13 (12.7); tarsus, 14.5-15.5 

 (15); middle toe, 8-8.5 (8.2).& 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Playa Vicente; Buena 

 Msta), Oaxaca, and Tabasco (Teapa) ; Guatemala (Choctum; Gualan; 

 Vera Paz) ; Honduras (according to Sclater) ; Costa Rica (Valza) ; 

 Panama (Lion Hill; Panama City; San Pablo Station; Calovevora). 



Leptopngon aDiauroccphalvs {not oi C&hsinis) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 

 384 (Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 213 (Oaxaca; Hon- 

 duras). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 399 (Choctum, Guatemala; crit.); 

 1864, 358 (Isthmus Panama; crit.).— I^awrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 

 328 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.). 



a Three specimens. 



6 Two specimens, from Vera Cruz. 



Locality. 



MALES, 



One adult male from Vera Cruz. . 

 One adult male from Guatemala. 

 One adult male from Panama. . . 



Wing. 



65 



64.5 



63 



Tail. 



56.5 

 52.5 

 53 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



15 

 16 

 14.; 



Middle 

 toe. 



I am not able to discern any color differences between two examples from Panama 

 and two from Vera Cruz (Buena Vista). 



