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Young. — ^Above deep browii (nearly mars brown), the wing coverts 

 more rufescent, nearly everywhere (except on primaries, etc.) broadly 

 barred with dusky, the back, however, sometimes uniform brown; 

 pileum lighter brown, becoming still paler on forehead, sometimes 

 narrowly barred or lunulated with dusky; sides of neck, foreneck, 

 chest, and sides tawny-brown (sayal brown) narrowly barred with 

 dusky; otherwise much as in adults. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 280-361 (311); v/ing, 144.5-161 

 (151.2); tail, 89-106 (95.3); exposed culmen, 14-15.5 (14.6); tarsus, 

 40-44 (41.2); middle toe, 29-33 (30.7).« 



Adult female.—Lengih (skins), 280-307 (293); wing, 140-157.5 

 (148.7); tail, 80.5-102.5 (91.2); exposed culmen, 13-16.5 (14.8); 

 tarsus, 39-44 (40.7); middle toe, 29.5-33.5 (31.2).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, m States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Coatepec; 

 Misantla; Cuesta de Misantla; Cordova; Potrero, near Cordova; 

 Orizaba; Mirador), Oaxaca (Latani; Totontepec; Mount Zempoal te- 

 pee), and Chiapas (Tumbala), and southward through Guatemala 

 (Rio de la Cuesta and El Rincon, San Marcos; San Martm, Atithln, 

 Savana Grande, Volcan de Fuego, and Choctum, Vera Paz; Sierra 

 delas Minas), and Honduras (Danli) to northern Nicaragua (Ocotal; 

 Janli; Matagalpa; Rio Coco; San Rafael del Norte; Peha Blanca). 



Peristera mexicana Gray, List Specimens of Birds Brit. Mus., part iii, 1844, 15 



(Mexico; nomen nudum.) 

 Peristera albifacies Gray, List Birds Brit. Mus., Columbse, 1856, 55 (Mexico; nomen 



nudum). 



The series examined indicates the probable expediancy of further subdivision of 

 this species. All the specimens from Guatemala and Nicaragua differ from those 

 from Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas in having the occiput and nape (except later- 

 ally) distinctly brown, as in 0. a. rubida, the brown darker than in the latter, however; 

 but the Guatemalan specimens are more deeply colored than those from Nicaragua. 

 A considerably larger series of specimens is necessary, however, to decide the question. 



