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with light buffy brown or dull brownish buffy, forming two conspicuous 

 bands, the secondaries edged (except ])asally) with pale buffy grayish 

 or pale dull grayish buif ; auricular region and sides of neck similar in 

 color to pileum but paler, gradually fading below into the dull white 

 of chin and throat; lores and indistinct orbital ring didl buffy whitish, 

 the former tinged or intermixed with dusky grayish brown near 

 anterior angle of eye; chest pale buffy olive-brownish, darker laterally, 

 fading into paler buffy brownish on sides and flanks; rest of under 

 parts pale buffy yellow or yellowish l)uff (al)domen sometimes 

 approaching whitish), deepening into brownish buff on anal region, 

 under tail-coverts, and posterior portion of flanks; axillars and under 

 wing-coverts brownish buffy, deepening into cinnamon-buff on margin 

 of wing; inner webs of remiges broadly edged with buff; maxilla dark 

 horn color or dusky brown, mandible wholly pale (brownish white in 

 dried skins); iris brown; legs and feet dusky brown. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but upper parts more brownish, 

 wing-bands cinnamon, secondaries broadly margined \\dth pale buffy 

 brown and under parts more buffy. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 118-126 (121); wing, 60-62 (61); tail, 

 52-54.5 (53.2); exposed culmen, 11-12.5 (11.7); tarsus, 16.5-17.5 

 (16.8); middle toe, 9-10 (9.7).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 113; wing, 57.5-60 (58.8); tail, 

 51-55.5 (53.3); exposed culmen, 11.5; tarsus, 16-16.5 (16.3); middle 

 toe, 9.5.^ 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Orizaba; Jalapa; Jico), 

 Mexico (Huipulco; San Nicolas; Lerma), and Guerrero (Acapulco; 

 Dos Arroyos); Guatemala (Dueiias; Coban); Costa Rica (Reven- 

 tazon) ; Panama. 



Empidonax albigidaris Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, Apr., 1859, 122 (Dueiias, 

 Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond.,1864, 360 

 (Panama; crit.). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 229 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz; 

 Coban and Duenas, Guatemala); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 223 (Ori- 

 zaba; Coban; Dueiias; Panama). — Ridgway, Ibis, 1886, 463. — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1889, 70, pi. 40, fig. 2 (Acapulco and 

 Dos AiToyos, Guerrero; Huipulco, Mexico; Jalapa, Vera Cruz; etc.). — Cher- 

 RiE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 535 (Costa Rica).— Chapman, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 31 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



[Empidonax] albigidaris Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 52. — Sharpe 

 Hand-list, iii, 1901, 137. 



Elmpidonax] albigidaris Ridgway, ]Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 340. 



[Pyrocephalus] albigidaris Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 361, no. 5497. 



Empidonax axillaris Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 363 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1874, 309 (crit.; refers it to E. albigidaris). 



a Three specimens, from State of Vera Cruz. 

 b Two specimens, from State of Vera Cruz. 



