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3'ellow) on pileum and hindneck; bill black, with basal half of mandi- 

 ble bluish gray (pale o-rayish blue or bluish white in life?); legs and 

 feet orayish brown or horn color (bluish g'ray in life?). 



Young {Jirst plumage). — Pileum and hindneck light yellowish olive- 

 green, becoming more yellow on forehead; back and scapulars dull 

 olive; rump and upper tail-coverts light oHve-green or dull yellowish 

 olive-green; wing-coverts dusky olive, the middle series broadly the 

 greater narrowly tipped with dull yellow-, remiges dusky, the tertials 

 broadly edged with didl yellow or pale yellowish olive, the longer 

 primaries narrowly edged with whitish; four middle rectrices dusky 

 olive, edged (especially at ends) with pale yellowish olive; rest of 

 rectrices paler olive, with pale yellow shafts and margins; under parts 

 and sides of head canary yellow, the middle of the chest with a 

 crcscentic patch (not very distinct) of olive. 



AdvJt «7«/6^— Length (skins), 208.3-233.7 (219.5); wing, 86.9-94.5 

 (90.4); tail, 99.3-113.3 (104.6); culmen, from base, 20.6-22.9 (22.1); 

 depth of bill at base, 9.4-10.2 (9.9); tarsus, 27.9-30.5 (29); middle toe, 

 17.3-19.1 (17.8).^ 



Adult female.— ljQv\gt\i (skins), 198.1-207 (202.4); wing, 83.8-89.4 

 (86.6); tail, 94.7-106.9 (100.8); culmen, from base, 20.3-21.6 (20.8); 

 depth of bill at base, 10.2-10.7 (10.4); tarsus, 28.2-28.5; middle toe, 

 17-18 (17.5).' 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Tlalcotalpam ; Motzo- 

 rongo; Otntitlan; Cordova; Orizaba), Oaxaca (Minatitlan), Chiapas 

 (Guichicovi), Tabasco, and Yucatan (Calotmul), through Guatemala 

 (Choctum; Coban; Duenas) and British Honduras (Corosal; Belize) to 

 Honduras (Omoa; San Pedro). 



Ps[«roco/yM.s] mcnovwlaft "Wagler, Isis, 1829, 755 (Mexico). 



[XaiiiJtortms'] mcwmelas Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 484 (Tabasco, s. e. 

 INIexico). 



Icieruff mesomehts Sclater, Pi'oc. Zool. 8oc. Lond., 1856, 301 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz); 1859, 58 (Omoa, Honduras), 293 (Esnieraldas, \v. Ecuador); Cat. 

 Am. Birds, 1862, 133 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); Ibis, 1883, 367 (monogr. ); Cat. 

 Bii-ds Brit. Mas., xi, 1886, 378 (Orizaba; Yucatan; Choctum, Vera Paz, 

 Guatemala; Corosal and Belize, British Honduras; San Pedro, Honduras). — 

 Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 34 (Duenas and Coban, Guatemala). — Scla- 

 TER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 837 (San Pedro, Honduras). — 



' Ten specimens. 

 ■'' Two specimens. 



