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yellowish olive; lesser wing-coverts dusky, broadl}- tipped or margined 

 with satfron yellowish; middle coverts dusk}"^ at base, broadly tipped 

 with white or 3-ellow; rest of wings dark grayish brown with paler 

 edgings, these white, or nearly so, on greater coverts; tail yellowish 

 olive. 



Young {first pluviage). — Head, neck, and under parts (including 

 throat, etc.) yellow, the color duller on pileum and hindneck; back 

 and scapulars olive; rump and upper tail-coverts dull yellow (gallstone 

 or dull satfron), like pileum and hindneck; wings and tail as in the 

 immature plumage, described above, but greater coverts broadly 

 tipped (on outer webs) with dull yellowish white, secondaries broadly 

 edged with white, primaries more ])roadl3^ edged with pale gray (pass- 

 ing into white terminall}') and with a white patch at base. 



Adult mrtZt^— Length '(skins), 22S.6-279.4 (247.0); wing, 116.1-142.2 

 (125); tail, 101.1-117.3 (107.4); culmen, from base, 26.2-30.2 (27.9); 

 depth of bill at base, 12.2-14.5(13.2); tarsus, 29.7-32.5 (31.2); middle 

 toe, 20.3-23.9 (22.4). ^ 



Adult feviale.—ljQn^th. (skins), 21S.4-251.5 (238.8): wing, 108-126.2 

 (113.8); tail, 91.7-114.8 (101.1); culmen, from base, 24.6-27.7 (26.4); 

 depth of bill at base, 11.9-13.7 (13); tarsus, 28.5-30.7 (30); middle toe, 

 17.8-22.4 (21.1).' 



Southwestern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Putla, Barrio, Chihuitan, 

 Juchitan, Santa Etigenia, Tehuantepec, Huilotepec, Juchitan, Chima- 

 lapa, etc.) and Chiapas (Tonala, Huehuetan), and southward through 

 Guatemala (Vera Paz, San Geronimo, Retalhuleu, Savana Grande, San 

 Pedro Martir, Zacapa, etc.), Salvador (Acajutla), and Honduras (Coma- 

 yagua), to Nicaragua (San Juan); British Honduras (Corosal) ^ 



Ps\_ar()colius'] gularis Wagler, Isis, 1829, 754 (Tehuantepet-, Oaxaca; ex Lichten- 

 stein, manuscript). 



/de)*».s (/»7or(« LicHTENSTEiN, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vug., 1830, 1 ("Mexico"); Journ. 

 fill- Orn., 1863, 56.— Des Muks, Icon. Orn., 1845-46, pi. 9.— Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 358 (Comayagua, Hondin-as); Ibis, 1883, 371, part 

 (s. Mexico, Yucatan, British Honduras, Guatemala); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xi, 1886, 384, part (Tonala, Chiapas; Putla and Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; Savana 

 Grande and San Pedro Martir, Guatemala; Corosal, British Honduras?). — 

 Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 19 (Vera Paz, Guatemala; Comayagua, 

 Honduras). — Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 468 (Guatemala); 1860, 195 (San Geronimo, 

 Guatemala).— (?) Taylor, Ibis, 1861, 111 (Honduras).— Owen, Ibis, 1861, 

 62, pi. 2, fig. 5 (San Geronimo, Guatemala; descr. and colored fig. of eggs). — 

 Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 49, part (San Geronimo, Guatemala; 

 San Salvador; San Juan, Nicaragua). — Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 no. 4, 1876, 23 (Barrio, Chihuitan, Juchitan, and Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 475, part (Putla, Bar- 

 rio, Chihuitan, Juchitan, and Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca; Tonala, Chiapas; 

 Corosal, British Honduras?; Vera Paz, San Geronimo, Retalhuleu, Savana 

 Grande, San Pedro Martir, and Zacapa, Guatemala; Acahutla, Salvador; 

 Comayagua, Honduras; Nicaragua). 



^Ten specimens. ^Six specimens. 



