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with .streaks or cuneate spots of l)lackisb. Otherwi.se much like 

 adult.s. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), about 1T<». 18-190.50 (177. 04); wing, 

 69.85-76.71 (73.66): tail, 67. 31-82. so (76.20); exposed culmen, 16.00- 

 17.27 (16.51); depth of bill at base, 10.41-12. 45 (11.18); tarsus, 25.65- 

 27.94 (26.42); middle toe, 19.05-20.32 (19.56).^ 



Adult feniaU-.~V^'mv^ril.S>i-T?,.m (72.90); tail, 76.20-77.72 (77.22); 

 exposed culmen. 15.24-16.00 (15.75); tarsus. 25.40-26.67 (26.16); mid- 

 dle toe. 18.29-20.07 (19.30).' 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz, Puebla, Mexico. San 

 Lui.s Potosi, Guanajuato, Morelos, Oaxaca, and Chiapas, and southward 

 through highlands (pine region) of Guatemala, Salvador, and Honduras 

 to the Segovia River. 



Pipilo rufescens Sw.\inson, Philos. Mag., n. s., i, 1827, 434 ( Teniascaltepec, ^lexico). 



P. I'lpilo'] rufcHceus Bon-^parte, Con.sp. Av., i, 1850, 487. 



AimopliUa rufescens Swaixson, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 313. — Sumichrast, Mem. 

 Bo8t. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 551 (temperate region, Vera Cruz). — Ferrari-Perez, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 145 (Jalajja, Vera Cruz). — Ridgway, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 587 (Segovia E,., Honduras; crit.) . — Stoxe, Proc. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci.Phila., 1890, 212 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz).— Chapmax, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 N. H. , X, 1898, 29 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; habits; song). 



A.[;i)nophUa'] rufescens Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 486. 



H.[aemoph'ila] rufescens Cabaxis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 132 (Mexico). 



Hiemophila rufescens Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858,98 (s. Mexico); 18.59, 

 365 (Jalapa), 380 ( Juquila and Villa Alta, Oaxaca) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 118 

 (Dueiias and Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala; r)riza1)a. Vera Cruz; Oaxaca). — 

 Sclater and Salvix, Ibis, 1859, 18 (Guatemala); 1860, 34 (Dueiias, Guate- 

 mala). — DuGES, La Naturaleza, 1,1868,140 (Guanajuato). — Lawrexce, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 22 (Guichicovi,^Tehuan tepee). — Salvix and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am. , Aves, i, 1886, 394, pi. 29, fig. 2 ( Quezaltenango, Carrizal, . 

 San Geronimo, and ijine-ridge of Peten, Guatemala, etc. )— Sharps, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 725. — Laxtz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 

 222 (Coatepec, Vera Cruz). 



' Eleven specimens. 

 ^ Four specimens. 



Sjaecimens from Mexico compare in average measurements with those from Guate- 

 mala and Honduras, as follows: 



I 



The specimens from Honduras are in much-worn plumage, and therefore the 

 measurements of wing and tail are not satisfactory for comparison. 



