4G8 NOTES ON BIRDS FROM HONDURAS RIDGWAY. 



Young male, transition plumage (No. 120295, Santa Ana, Honduras, 

 November (>, 1890; Erich VVittkugel) : Similar to the adult male, as 

 degcribed above, but outer surface of closed wings chietly bright rusty 

 chestnut under wing-coverts tawny-ochraceous, inner web of remiges 

 broadly edged with ochraceous-buff (occupying entire web of second- 

 aries, except at tii)s), and gray of under parts, especially posterior to 

 the breast, much intermixed and stained with pale bufiy. Under 

 mandible light colored. Length (skin), G.25; wing, 3.45; tail, 2.45; 

 exposed culmen, 0.62; tarsus, 0.80 ; middle toe, 0.45. 



Young male— first year? (No. 120290, U. S. Nat. Mus., San Pedro 

 Sula, Honduras, January 28, 189L; Erich Wittkugel): Pileum and 

 hind neck black, becouiing dull grayish dusky on forehead; back and 

 scapulars, grayish olive, mixed or stained with dull rusty brownish, 

 some of the feathers having dusky shafts ; rump and. upper tail-coverts 

 dull rusty cinnamon, slightly tinged with olive; rectrices clear tawny 

 cinnamon-rufous, some of them darker or browner, others with dusky 

 longitudinal blotches; wings chiefly cinnamon-rusty; their under 

 coverts, clear ochraceous-buff. Umler parts mixed olive-grayish and 

 buff, the former prevailing on sides of breast. Under mandible brownish 

 white. Length (skin), 0.30; wing, 3.35; tail, 2.55 ; exposed culmen, 0.05 ; 

 tarsus, 0.78 ; middle toe, 50. 



Adnltfemale (No. 120298, U. S. Nat. Mus., San Pedro Sula, Houtluras, 

 November 29,1890; Erich Wittkugel): Pileum smoky grayish black, 

 fading on forehead into dull grayish brown ("hair brown"); rest of 

 upper parts dull cinnamon-chestnut, brighter (almost cinnamon-rufous) 

 on greater wing-coverts, secondaries and tail, as well as around neck. 

 Lores light grayish ; malar region, deep butt' or clay color, gradually 

 becoming deeper and more rusty posteriorly until it merges into the 

 bright cinnamon-rusty of sides of neck. Chin, x^ale butt'; rest of uuder 

 parts deep tawny-butt' or clay-color, the under wing-coverts ochraceous- 

 butt'. Under mandible, dusky grayish (plumbeous in life?). Length 

 (skin), G.40; wing, 3.25; tail, 2.40 ; exposed culmen, 0.05; tarsus, 0.80; 

 middle toe, 0.50. 



I think there can be no question as to the distinctness of this bird 

 from 1*. a. latirostris, of which the National Museum possesses two adult 

 males and an adult female, from Ometepec, Nicaragua, collected by Mr. 

 C. (J. Nutting. The male of P. latirostris is much paler throughout, 

 having the distinctly gray back sharply defined against the black cap. 

 ami the white on the inner webs of the primaries very much more ex- 

 tended, there being a considerable white space on the basal portion of 

 the first <iuiIl,of which there is no trace in the two adult males of 7'. «. 

 hiipophaus. The short second primary is likewise considerably narrower 

 than in /'. a. latirostris. 



The adult female is very much darker than that of P. a. latlrostrisj 

 and has also a decidedly shorter wing and tail, but agrees so minutely 

 iu coloration with the female of the (juatenuilan form of P. aglaiw, that 



