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more russet-brown, inclining to mars brown on o;reater wing-coverts 

 and secondaries; chin, throat, and chest phiin hght bister brown, the 

 first paler and more grayish; rest of under parts plain light, slightly 

 greenish, olive, the abdomen tinged with light olive-yellow; axillars 

 and under wing-coverts pale grayish olive, tinged or edged with pale 

 olive-yellowish; inner webs of remiges grayish brown, indistinctly 

 edged with paler; bill blackish brown or brownish black, the mandi- 

 ble paler basally; legs and feet deep horn brownish, the toes usually 

 darker.^ 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 156; wing, 8S-89.5 (88.7); tail, 65-68 

 (66.5); exposed culmen, 13.5-14.5 (14); tarsus, 20.5-21 (20.7); mid- 

 dle toe, 13.5-14 (13.7).^ 



Adult female. ^hength (skins), 152-161 (156); wing, 87-88 (87.5); 

 tail, 65-66.5 (65.7); exposed culmen, 15.5; tarsus, 21.5; middle toe, 

 14-15 (14.5).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in State of Vera Cruz (Playa Vicente), Guate- 

 mala (Choctum; Yzabal) and western and central Honduras (San 

 Pedro; San Pedro Sula; Chamelicon; Santa Ana; Chaloma). 



Heteropelma verx-pacis Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc Lond., 1860, 300 

 (Choctum, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman); 1861, 467 (Guate- 

 mala); 1870, 837 (San Pedro, Honduras).— Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 

 400 (Choctum).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 467 (Guatemala); 1862, 

 19 (Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 245 (Vera Paz); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 320, part (Choctum and Yzabal, Guatemala). — Salvin 

 and CrODMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves., ii, 1889, 116, part (Playa Vicente, 

 Vera Cruz; Choctum and Yzabal, Guatemala; San Pedro, Honduras). 



{Hetero-pelmdl versepacis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 55, part. 



Heterpelma verxpads Lantz, Trans. Kans. Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 (1899), 221 (Chal- 

 oma, n. w. Honduras). 



[Laniisomd] rerse-pacis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 373, no. 5661. 



Scotothorus verae-pacis Oberholser, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., June 2, 1899. 209. 



[Scotothnnis] rer,T-paris Sh.\rpe, Hand-list, iii. 1901, 159. part. 



SCOTOTHORUS VERiE-PACIS DUMICOLA Bangs. 

 OLIVE MAN AKIN. 



Similar to S. v. verse-pacis, but color of upper parts decidedly more 

 olivaceous (slightly brownish olive to clear olive, the crown usually 

 very slightly more brownish), wings and tail less rufescent (more olive- 

 brownish), and under parts slightly darker, with color of chest and 

 throat much less brownish (more olive); wing averaging longer, tail 

 shorter. 



a In S. V. dumicola the iris is noted by Carriker (on label) as brown; bill black, with 

 edge and base of mandible horn color; feet bluish slate. According to M. E. Peck (on 

 labels) the feet are leaden blue or horn brown. 



fc Two specimens — one from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the other said to l)c from 

 "Mexico." 



c Two specimens from Honduras (Chamelicon and Santa Ana). 



There are no specimens with sex determined in the series examined from ( Jualemala. 



