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but slightly paler, especially basally; iris brown: legs and feet brown- 

 ish black. 



Young. — Essentially like adults but browner above, rectrices much 

 more broadly edged (on both \\ebs) with ciimamon-rufous, and larger 

 wing-coverts margined with cinnamon or russei. 



Adult null e. — Length (skins), 162-lcSO (171); wing, 79.5-89.5 (85); 

 tail, 74-87 (79.9); expose;! culnien, 16.5-19.5 (18); tarsus, 17.5-21 

 (19.7); middle toe, 10-11.5 (10.7). « 



AduUfduale. — Length (skins), 158-178 (165); wing, 76.5-87.5 (81); 

 tail, 70.5-8;^ (76.1); exposed culmen, 16.5-19 (17.2); tarsus, 17.5-20 

 (19.1); middle toe, 9.5-11 (10.4).'' 



Eastern and southern Mexico, in States of Nuevo Leon (San Diego; 

 Monterey; Cerro de la Silla; C'eralvo; Hacienda de las P^scobas; Rio 

 (le las EsCiobas; Montemorelos ; Topo Chico), Tanuiulipas (Victoria; 

 Aha >\Iira; Tampico), Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; Orizaba; Jico; 

 Pasa Nueva; Jaltipan; Minatitlan; Santa Lucrecia; Teocelo; Buena 

 Visia: Misantla; Cofre de Perote), Puebla (Metlaltoyuca), Oaxaca 

 (Talea; Santa Efigenia; Tehuantepec; Cuicatlan; Comaltepec; Tux- 

 tc})ec; Dondominguillo), Tabasco (Teapa; Atoyac), Campeche (Cam- 

 peche) and Chiapas (Comitan; Teopisca; San Bartoleme; Tuxtla 

 Gutierrez; Canjob; Tumbala; Huehuetan; Yajalon; Ocuilapa) ; 

 Guatemala (Choctum; Coban; Palin; Duefias; Tactic; Teleman; San 

 Geronimo; Retalhuleu; Yaxcamnal; Sources of Rio de la Pasion; 

 Volcan de Agua; wSecanquim) ; British Honduras (Orange Walk; 

 Belize) I 



Muscicapa lawrenceii Giraud, Sixteen New Species Texas Birds, 1841. [9], pi. [2], 



fig. 1 ("Texas;" probably from Nuevo Leon). 

 Tyrannula lawrenceii Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gl. Salt Lake, 1852, 329 



(••Texas"). 

 Myiarchus laivrencii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 181 (San Diego, 



Nuevo Leon); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), pi. 47, fig. 3; Rep. U. S. and Mex. 



« Fifteen specimens. 

 b Fourteen specimens. 



Locality. 



MALE.S. 



Eloveii adult males from Nuevo Leon and 'ruiiiaulipas to 



Tabasco 



Four adult males from Cliiapas 



FEMALES. 



Four adult females from Nuevo Leon 



Six adult females from Vera Cruz to Tabasco 



Four adult females from Chiapas 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



18.2 

 17.4 



Tarsus, 



Middle 

 toe. 



19.7 

 19.5 



17.3 19..'? 

 17. 18. 9 

 It). 8 



10.9 

 10.4 



10. r. 

 10. C, 

 19.1 10 



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