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Adult female. — Length (skin), 162.56; wing, 66.55; tail, 72.90; ex- 

 posed culmen, 14.73; tarsus, 22.86; middle toe, 17.27.^ 

 Guatemala to Costa Rica (Pacific side). 



Chondestes ruficauda Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxvii, 1853, 918 (Nicaragua); 

 Notes Orn. Coll. Delattre, 1854, 18. 



Hasmophila ruficauda Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, Oct., 1860, 398 ( Rio Montagua, 

 Guatemala). — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 118 (Chuacus, Guatemala). — 

 Salvix, Ibis, 1870, 114(crit. nom.). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 

 9.— NrTTixG and Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 383 (Sucuyii, Nic- 

 aragua). — Salvin and Godjian, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 396, pi. 30, 

 fig. 2 (Choi, Chuacus, Montagua Valley, and Guastatoya to Gualan, Guate- 

 mala; Acajutla, Salvador; Sucuya, Nicaragua; Costa Rica). — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 724.— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac. Sci., 1896-97 

 (1899), 222 (Grenada, Nicaragua). 



IHncinophila'] ruficauda Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33 (Guate- 

 mala; Costa Rica). 



AimujjJiUa ruficauda Zeledos, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 112 (Mexico). 



lC'aJa)no»piza'\ ruficauda Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 111, no. 7671 (Nicaragua). 



\_Embernagra'\ ruficauda Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 91, no. 7345 (Guatemala). 



{f) Haemophila tolteca Muller, Syst. Verz. Wirli. Mex. ,50. 



(f) HaemophUa toltec MtJLLER, Reise Mex., iii, 1865, 584. 



[Emhernagra} tolteca Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 91, no. 7346. 



AIMOPHILA RUFICAUDA LAWRENCII (Salvin and Godman) . 

 TEHtTANTEPEC GROUND SPARROW. 



Similar to A. r. ruficauda ^ but larger; })lack stripes of pileum usu- 

 ally (?) more distinctl}' edged with brown, back more tinged with graj', 

 and tail usually slightly less rufescent. 



Adult male. —LQngih (skins), 175.26-190.50 (181.61); wing, 73.15- 

 79.50 (76.20); tail, 88.90-93.98 (90.17); exposed culmen, 14.48-16.26 

 (15.49); tarsus, 22.86-24.13(23.62); middle toe, 17.27-18.54 (18.03).^' 



Adult female.— \jQx\^i\i{B\imH), 172.72-187.96(179.07); wing, 70.10- 

 72.39(71.37); tail, 81.79-88.90 (85.60); exposed culmen, 14.99-16.51 

 (15.49); tarsus, 23.37-24.13(23.88); middle toe, 17.27-18.29 (17. 78).'' 



State of Oaxaca (Pacific side), southwestern Mexico (Juchitan; Santa 

 Efigenia; Tehuantepec; Chimalapa; Huilotepec). 



Hsemophila ruficauda {not CJiondestes ruficauda 'Bonaparte) Lawrence, Bull. U. S. 



Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 22 (Tehuantepec City, Santa Efigenia, and Juchitan, 



Oaxaca) . 

 HsemophUa laurencii Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, sig. 50, Aug., 



1886, 397 (Juchitan, Oaxaca; coll. Salvin and Godman). — Sharpe, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 723. 



* One specimen. "^ Five specimens. ^ Six specimens. 



