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yellow) on abdomen, many of the feathers, from foreneck to abdo- 

 men, showing more or less distinct narrow shaft-streaks of dusky; 

 sides, flanks, and mider tail-coverts clear light yellowish green; 

 smaller mider wing-coverts clear light yellowish green (apple green) ; 

 under primary coverts and imder surface of remiges dull slate color 

 or dark mouse gray, the former sometimes narrowly margined distally 

 with pale dull yellowish; under surface of tail light yellowish olive 

 changing to deep olive-yellowish; bill horn brownish, paler terminally; 

 iris yellow or orange-yellow; naked orbital space dull white (in life) ; 

 legs and feet grayish dusky or dull blackish. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skuis), 211-245 (232); wing, 129-145.5 

 (136.6); tail, 99-117 (108.8); culmen, 16.5-20 (18.4); tarsus, 13-14.5 

 (13.9); outer anterior toe, 15.5-18 (17.1).'^ 



Adult female.—Length (skins), 212-263 (226); wing, 131-136.5 

 (134.2); tail, 102.5-118.5 (108.1); culmen, 16-5-19.5 (18.1); tarsus, 

 13-14.5 (13.8); outer anterior toe, 16.5-18.5 (17.5).'' 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Motzorongo; Potrero 

 near Cordova; Merida; Playa Vicente; Plan del Rio; Misantla; Vega 

 de Casadero; Sochiapa; La Antigua; San Lorenzo; Atoyac; Jalapa; 

 Omcalca; Cosamaloapam), Puebla (Rinconada), southern Tamaulipas 

 (AJta Mira; Tampico), Oaxaca (Guichicovi) , Tabasco (Frontera; 

 Teapa; San Juan Bautista), and Yucatan (Chichen-Itza; Merida; 

 Citilpech; Tekanto; Ticul; Labna; Izamal; Camp Mengel, Quintana 

 Roo; Holbox Island), and southward, through Guatemala (Cajabon; 

 Vera Paz; Peten; Los Amates, Yzabal), British Honduras (Belize 

 River; Orange Walk), Honduras (Santa Ana; Truxillo; Comayfi,gua; 

 Omoa; San Pedro; Rio Segovia) and Nicaragua (Rio Escondido; 



