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coverts, the feathers of pileuin indistinctly darker medially; tail 

 deep grayish brown (nearly hair brown), the outer webs of rectrices 

 passing into light grayish olive on edges,- the outer web of lateral 

 rectrix much paler, approaching dull grayish white; wings dusky, 

 the middle and greater coverts broadly tipped with pale buffy grayish* 

 (forming two conspicuous bands), the secondaries edged (except 

 basally) with pale yellowish gray, the greater coverts and primaries 

 narrowly edged with pale grayish; a broad orbital ring of dull white, 

 interrupted on middle of upper eyelid; lores mixed buffy whitish or 

 dull yellowish white and dusky; rest of sides of head and sides of 

 neck similar in color to back but slightly paler and grayer, gradually 

 fading below into the pale buffy yellowish or didl yellowish white of 

 chin and throat, the upper portion of the latter, especially laterally, 

 more or less tinged or suffused with dusky grayish; chest and sides 

 pale buft'y grayish or buffy olive, the remaining under parts pale buffy 

 yellow (nearly straw yellow) ; axillars and under wing-coverts pale 

 buffy yellow ; inner webs of remiges broadly edged with pale grayish 

 buffy; maxilla brownish black or blackish brown, mandible pale brown- 

 ish or brownish wdiite (in dried skins), sometimes tmged wdth brown 

 or dusky terminally; iris brown; legs and feet brownish black or 

 blackish brown. 



Adults in winter. — Much more deeply colored than in summer, the 

 upper parts deep buffy olive or ochraceous-olive, orbital ring pale 

 yellow, and under parts deep straw yellow or approaching naples 

 yellow (paler on throat) , the chest and sides light buft'y yellowish olive. 



Young. — Similar to summer adults but upper parts browner, wing- 

 bands cinnamon-buff or ochraceous, edges of secondaries buffy, and 

 under parts bufl"y whitish, with chest and sides pale buffy grayish 

 olive. 



Adult male.— hength (skins), 127-133 (130); wing, 71.5-74 (73.2); 

 tail, 60.5-65 (62) ; exposed cuimen, 10.5-12 (11) ; tarsus, 16-17.5 (16.8) ; 

 middle toe, 9." 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 123-132 (128); wing, 65.5-72 

 (68.1); tail, 57.5-62.5 (59.8); exposed cuimen, 11-12 (11.3); tarsus, 

 16-16.5 (16.1); middle toe, 8-9.5 (8.8).'' 



Pine forests of southern Mexico, in States of southern Tamaulipas 

 (Miquihuana,'^ June) , Vera Cruz (Orizaba; Las Vigas), Mexico, (''City 

 of Mexico;" Chimalpa; north slope of Volcan de Toluca, September; 

 Amecameca, February), Morelos (Huitzalac, December), Guerrero 



« Three specimens. 

 b Five specimens. 



c Mr. Nelson refers the breeding bird (a single specimen) from Miquihuana to E. 

 puherius, but it is, in my opinion, not that form, but the present one. 



