BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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white, tinged witli yellow, the feathers slate-gray beneath the surface; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts mostly gray, sometimes tinged with 

 olive; bill black; legs and feet light brown (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 141-152 (116); wing, 75.5-80 (77.1); tail, 70-73 (71.6); exposed 

 culmen, 12-13 (12.3); tarsus, 23-21.5 (23.9); middle toe, 13-11 (13.5).' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male in coloration, and not 

 always distinguishable, but averaging rather lighter slate color above, 

 with the back more strongly tinged with olive; lores and anterior 

 portion of suborbital and malar regions sometimes dull slate-gray, 

 instead of black; yellow crown-patch usuall}' {i) rather smaller, with 

 the feathers, especially the more posterior ones, tipped with olive; 

 wing and tail shorter; length (skins), 140-152 (146.4); wing, 67-76 

 (71); tail, 64-69 (66.1); exposed culmen, 11.5-13 (12.1); tarsus, 22.5-24 

 (23.3); middle toe, 12.5-13.5 (13.1).- 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; 

 Mirador; Motzorongo), Pue)>la (Acatlan), Oaxaca (Pluma; Tehuan- 

 tepec; Santa Eligenia), and Chiapas (Tuxtla); highlands of Guatemala 

 (Volcan de Agua; Volcan de Fuego; Alotenaugo; Savana Grande; 

 Barranca Honda), and southward to Nicaragua (Ometepe). 



E\_at]diipis] lacJifi/iDosa Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 19, footnote (Lacunas, 

 Mexico; coll. Berlin Mns. ; ex. Sijli'ia lachri/mosa Lichtenstein, manuscript). 



EiUhh/pis Uichrynumi Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lend., 1856, 291 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz); 1859, 363 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 36 (Jalapa). — 

 Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 274 (Alotenango, (Tuatemala). — SrMicnuAST, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (temp. reg. Vera Cruz; habits) .—Nut- 

 ting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 392 (Ometepe, Nicaragua). — Ferrari- 

 Pekez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 138 (Acatlan, Puebla). 



[^Bimleuterus] lachrymosa Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 314 (Lagunas). 



Setophaga lachrymosa'BAiRD, Review Am. Birds, 1865,263 (Mexico; Savana Grande, 

 Guatemala) . — Salvin, Ibis, 1878, 320, part (monogr. ). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 184, part pi. 11, fig. 2. — Siiarpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., X, 1885, 430 (Jalapa and Cordova, Vera Cruz; Santa Efigenia, 

 Oaxaca; Volcan de Agua, Barranca-Hondo, and Alotenango, Guatemala). 



ISetojiJtaga] lacJiri/rnnsa Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 244, no. 3539. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 11. 



' Four specimens. 



^ Seven specimens. 



Specimens from different localities average, respectively, as follows: 



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