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this sometimes invading upper chest; rest of under parts plain gray, 

 becoming paler posteriorly (especially on abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts, which sometimes incline to dull white or brownish white), 

 the under parts sometimes more or less tinged or suffused with buffy; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts light brownish gray, sometnnes 

 suffused with brownish buffy; inner webs of remiges narrowly edged 

 with white (more broadly so basally) ; bill dusky (more or less bluish 

 in life) usually with paler tip and tomia; iris brown; legs and feet 

 dusky or dark born color (bluish gray in life?) ; length (skins), 164-183 

 (171); wing, 93-97.5 (94.8); tail, 67-76 (70.6); exposed culmen, 15- 

 17.5 (16.3); tarsus, 21-22 (21.4); middle toe, 13-14.5 (13.7).« 



Adult female. — Pileum and nape slate color to dark sooty slate, 

 becoming paler on forehead, where often tinged with buff (the whole 

 pileum sometimes tiiiged or suffused, occasionally striped, with buff) ; 

 hinthieck buff to tawny or tawny-ochraceous, forming a more or less 

 distinct collar; back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts varying 

 from light grayish buffy brown (between raw-umber and broccoli 

 brown) or even more grayish brown (grayer than hair brown) to 

 cinnamon-buff or clay color and tawny-cinnamon or russet ; the tail 

 and general color of wings usually more tawny; under parts, and sides 

 of head and neck, vaiying from pale buff to deep buff, the color slightly 

 deeper on auricular region, chest, and sides, and fading into buffy 

 white on chin and upper throat ; axillars and under wing-coverts buff 

 to deep ochraceous-buff ; inner webs of remiges broadly edged (except 

 terminally) with pinkish buff to ochraceous-buff; bill, iris, legs and 

 feet as in adult male; length (skins), 166-188 (181); w^ing, 91-98 

 (93.9); tail, 70-74 (72); exposed culmen, 15-18 (16.6); tarsus, 21.5-23 

 (22.2); middle toe, 14-16 (14.8).« 



Northeastern Mexico, from States of Nuevo Leon (San Diego; 

 Boquillo; Rio de Ramos; Montemorelos; Monterey; Cerro de la Silla"^) 

 and northern and western Tamaulipas (Victoria; Rio Corono; Santa 

 Fe de Presas, Rio Palon; Forlon; Hidalgo; Soto la Maria; Victoria; 

 Sierra Madre above Victoria) and San Luis Potosi (Valles) to high- 

 lands of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Jico; Rivera; Mirador; Carrizal; Papantla') 

 and Puebla (Rancho del Ahuehuete) ; Mexico (near City of Mexico) ?. 



Pachyrhynchus aglaise Lapresnaye, Rev. Zool., ii, Apr., 1839, 98 (Mexico; type 



now in coll. Bost. Soc. N. H.). 

 Tlityra] aglaise Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1846, 254. 

 Psaris aglaix Kaup, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1851, 46. 

 {Tityra\ aglaise Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 368, no. 5594. 



« Ten specimens. 



& A single specimen fmiu this Ideality, taken in March, is P. a. albivcntns. the rest 

 being the present form. 



c Papantla specimens are intermediate between this form and P. a. sumichrasti. 



