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tail-coverts ochraceous or orange-ochraceoiis (rarely ocher-yellow), 

 instead of light chrome, naples or maize yellow; tail more ciiinamo- 

 meous or tawny; throat and chest less yellowish (usually grayish 

 white), more distinctly streaked; size averaging decidedly larger. 



Adult male.— Length (skms), 186-205 (196); wing, 92-100.5 (94.8); 

 tail, 71.5-80 (77.3) ; exposed culmen, 24-27.5 (25.4) ; tarsus, 24.5-27.5 

 (26); middle toe, 15.5-18.5 (17.1).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 183-195 (187); wing, 87-94 (91.2); 

 tail, 70.5-78 (73.8); exposed culmen, 21.5-25 (23.5); tarsus, 25-27.5 

 (26); middle toe, 16-17 (16.5).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Santecomapan, Playa 

 Vicente, Jalapa, Buena Vista, Pasa Nueva), Puebla (Metlaltoyuca), 

 Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia, Cacoprieto) and Chiapas (Palenque), and 

 southward through Guatemala (Savana Grande, Choctum, Kamkhal, 

 El Zapote, Naranjo, Escuintla?)*^ to Honduras (Santa Ana, San Pedro 

 Sula, Chamelicon, Ceiba), and British Honduras (near Manatee 

 Lagoon).** 



Attila citreofygia (not Dasycephala citreopyga Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1857, 228 (Santecomapan, Vera Cruz).— Sclater and Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1859, 120 (Guatemala).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 

 556 (tierra caliente of Vera Cruz). — Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci. for 1896-97 

 (•1899), 221 (Naranjo, Guatemala). 



Attila citreopygius Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 41, part (s. Mexico; 

 Guatemala), 366 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 383 (Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz), 438, 

 part (Playa Vicente; Guatemala); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 195 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz; Guatemala); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 361, part (Jalapa; Choc- 

 tum and Kamkhal, Vera Paz; Mexico). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1870, 837 (Honduras).— Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 

 1876, 25 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr. Am., 

 Aves, ii, 1891, 133, part (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca; El Zapote, 

 Choctum, and Kamkhal, Guatemala). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 

 xxxix, 1903, 149 (Ceiba, Honduras). 



o Fifteen specimens. 

 b Five specimens. 



c Specimens from the Pacific coast district of Guatemala not seen by me. They are 

 more likely to belong to A. c. cinnamomeus or A. c. luteolus. 



'^August and October; breeding specimens from the same locality seem to be 

 referable to ,4. c. gaumeri. 



