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Juvenal male.^^ — Similar to the adult female but buffier below. 



Juvenal female. — Similar to the adult female slightly lighter and buffier 

 below, and with wider pale shaft stripes on the inner secondaries; "bill, 

 blackish horn color ; mandible and maxillary rami, pale, light blue ; tarsi 

 and feet, bluish horn color; iris, dark brown" (van Rossem). 



Adult male.— Wing 114-130 (123.2); tail 48-57.5 (53.0); culmen 

 from base 15.1-17.5 (16.1) ; tarsus 30.4-33.2 (32.1) ; middle toe without 

 claw 21.0-24.3 (22.5 mm.).«i 



Adult jemale.—Wmg 110.5-119.5 (115.7); tail 45-55.5 (48.8); cul- 

 men from base 15.1-16.7 (15.6); tarsus 28.9-32.0 (30.9); middle toe 

 without claw 20.4-23.6 (22.0 mm.).«- 



Range. — Resident in the upperparts of the pine forests of the Arid 

 Upper Tropical Zone from southern Mexico (eastern Oaxaca — Santa 

 Efigenia ; Tapanatepec ; and Chiapas — Teopisca) south in the highlands 

 at elevations of from 5,000 to 7,000 feet to the drier parts of the central 

 highlands of Guatemala east of the Pacific divide, to the Cordillera of 

 El Salvador, to lionduras (Hatillo, Jalapa, Danli, Cantoral, Alto Cantoral, 

 Ceguaca, Tegucigalpa, etc.), and to northern Nicaragua (San Rafael 

 del Norte). 



Type locality. — Guatemala. 



Orty.v ocellatiis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1836 (1837), 75 (locality unknown 

 [= Guatemala] ; coll. Zool. Soc. London). 



Cyrtonyx ocellatus Gould, Monogr. Odontoph., pt. 2, 1846, pi. 8 and text. — Sclater 

 and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 226 (Guatemala).— Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., pt. 5, 

 Gallinje, 1867, 74.— Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 1893, 428 

 (Quezaltenango, Duenas, and Toliman, Guatemala) ; Handb. Game Birds, ii, 

 1897, 149 (moncgr.). — Beristain and Laurencio, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. 

 "Antonio Alzate," vii, Nos. 7-8, 1894, 219 (Mexico; Chiapas and Tabasco). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, iii, 1903, 307 (Santa Efigenia, 

 Oaxaca; Quezaltenango, Duenas, and Toliman at 5,000 feet, Guatemala; Danli, 

 Jalapa, n. Honduras).— Dearborn, Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist. No. 125, 1907, 

 77 (Lake Atitlan to Tecpam, Guatemala, 7,000 feet).— Bangs and Peters, Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. Zool., Ixvlii, 1928, 387 (Tapanatepec, Oaxaca, Mexico).— Stone, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, Ixxxiv, 1932, 302 (Honduras; Danli).— 

 Griscom, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., Ixiv, 1932, 107 (distr. ; Guatemala; 

 Antigua, Nebaj, San Antonio, Panajachel, and San Lucas). — Hellmayr and 

 CoNOVER, Cat. Birds Amer., i, No. 1, 1942, 287 (syn. ; distr.). 



[Cyrtonyx] ocellatus Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 272, No. 9775.— Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 137.— Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 46. 



""Only Juvenal males seen are in a very late stage of the post-juvenal molt and 

 consequently give merely glimpses of the juvenal plumage. The sexes are probably 

 alike in juvenal plumage. 



" Fifteen specimens from Qiiapas, Oaxaca, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, 

 and Honduras. 



*' Nine specimens from Chiapas, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. 



