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fading- into paler gray on median portion of chest; suborbital crescent, 

 anterior half of malar region, chin, upper throat, and abdomen white- 

 abroad postocular streak of dark brown; a loral, a rictal, and a sub- 

 malar streak of black; Hanks grayish buff; femoral region and under 

 tail-coverts clear buff'; maxilla cinnamon-brown; mandible paler; leo\s 

 and feet pale brownish. 



Ad u/t oialr.— Length (skins), 152.40-162.56 (155.70); wing, 66.04- 

 71.12 (68.83); tail, 66.04-71-88 (68.33); exposed cubuen, 14.22-14.l>9 

 (14.73); depth of bill at base, 8.89-9.65 (9.14); tarsus. 20.32-21.59 

 (21.08); middle toe, 14.99-16.51(15.49).' 



Adult femalt. — Length (skins), 139.70-160.02 (152.40); wing-, 62.99- 

 66.80 (64.52); tail, 63.50-69.85 (67.06); exposed culmen, 13.46-15.24 

 (14.22); depth of bill at base, 7.87-8.89 (8.38); tarsus, 20.07-21.84 

 (20.83); middle toe, 12.95-14.99 (14.22). 1 



Tierra caliente of Oaxaca, southern Mexico (Santo Domingo, l\>huan- 

 tcpec, San Bartolo. Juchitan, Salina Cruz, etc.). 



Hxiaophild sutnidtmsti Lawkexce, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. X. Y.. x, Feb., 1K71 

 6 (Jueliitan, Oaxaca, s. Mexico; U. S. Nat. ]\Iii.s. ) ; Bull. U. S. Nat.' Mas.' 

 no. 4, 1876, 22 (do. ).— S.vlvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Ani., Aves, i, 1886, 

 395.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mug., xii, 188S. 726. 



[ILrmu})hi/a] guinlehmstl Sclatek and Halvix, Noni. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33. 



AIMOPHILA CARPALIS (Coues). 

 BENDIRES SPARROW. 



Similar to ^1. samlchrastl but much smaller, g-rayer above, with 

 back more narrowly streaked, and tail grayish brown instead of cinna- 

 mon. 



Adults (seo'cs rt///(t').— Pilcum streaked broadly with chestnut-rufous 

 or rusty (sometimes nearly imiform rusty) and narrowly with grayish, 

 the latter forming a more or less distinct median line; a broad super- 

 ciliary stripe and sides of head generally light g-rayish, the latter 

 relieved by a postocular streak of rusty and a rictal and a submalar 

 streak of blackish; upper pai-ts, including upper tail-coverts and 

 tail, brownish gray, or light grayish brown, the back and scapulars 

 streaked with blackish; lesser wing-coverts cinnamon-rufous; under 

 parts grayi.sh white. 



} ounr/.—UpiJev parts, incUiding pileum, light grayish brown, broadly 

 streaked with blackish; lesser wing-coverts dusky centrally, broadly 

 margined with pale brownish buff; under parts whitish, the chest and 

 sides streaked with dusky. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 127.00-135.89 (131.06); wing, 60.96- 

 66.04 (63.25); tail, 63.50-68.07 (65.28); exposed culmen, 10.16-10.67 



^ Seven specimens. 

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