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into dull gra^^ish brown on occiput, this in turn changing gradually to 

 golden olive-green on hindneck, back, and other upper parts, the 

 olive-green brightest on upper tail-coverts; remiges sooty brown, the 

 tertials dull olive-green; chin and throat bright, but not pure, yellow, 

 the remaining under parts rather duller 3^ellow (dull saffron or wax 

 yellow), the sides and flanks dull brownish; bill very slender, dusky; 

 feet dark brown; outermost primary much shorter than innermost, the 

 fifth longest; tail graduated for about 12 mm.; wing, 61; tail, 58; 

 exposed culmen, 12.7; depth of bill at base, 3.8; tarsus, 21.6; middle 

 toe, U.' 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male as described above, but 

 pileum dull olive-brown, darker, more dusky grayish, on forehead, the 

 black being restricted to the loral, suborbital, auricular, and malar 

 regions, the upper portion of the auricular region being dusky gray- 

 ish; length (skin), 123; wing, 55.5; tail, 52.5; exposed culmen, 12; 

 tarsus, 22; middle toe, 14.^ 



Adult female. — ''Greener than the male above, and without any 

 black on the head and face; the head a little more ashy olive than the 

 back; wings and tail as in the male; sides of face and ear-coverts 

 olive-brown, mottled with pale yellow spots on the lores and below 

 the eye; upper and lower edge of eyelid pale yellow; under surface of 

 body light fulvous yellow, tinged with saffron on the breast; the sides 

 of the body light reddish brown, shaded with ashy; under tail-coverts 

 brighter yellow."^ Total length 121.9, culmen 14, wing 52.1, tail, 

 48.3, tarsus 20.3. 



Eastern Mexico (alpine region of Vera Cruz). 



Geothlypis speciosa Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 447 (Mexico; ooll. P. L. 



Sclater) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 27.— Baird, Review Am. Bird.^^, 1865, 223, 



footnote. — Sf.MiCHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (alpine reg. of 



Vera Cruz). — 8alvin, Ibis, 1872, 149 (monogr. ). — Salvin and God.man, Biol. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 152.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 358, 



pi. 10. 

 [Geothlypitil speciosa Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 9. 

 G[eothlypis'] speciosa Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 525. 

 [Geothlypis speciosa'] a. speciosa Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 458. 

 Geothlypis speciosa var. speciosa Ridgway, Am. Journ. Sci., iv, Dec, 1872, 458. 

 Geothlypis for mosa (not Sylvia formosa Wilson) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc Lond., 



1860, 273 (evidently meant for speciosa; cites Proc Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 



447). 



'Described from a specimen (no. 169<() in Dr. Sclater's collection, collected by 

 De Saussure, in 1858, but without deiinite locality. The wing measured l)y pressing 

 it flat against the rule, the tail measured to the base of the coccyx. 



•^Described from no. 89,906, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., "Mexico, De Saussure, 185S" 

 (no. 169b. of Dr. Sclater's collection.) 



'Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 358. The measunements converted from 

 inches and tenths. 



