BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA 575 



chrome yellow; maxilla horn blue; mandible light yellow; tarsi and 

 toes greenish yellow; claws plumbeous. 



Juvenal (sexes alike). — Very variable; forehead, crown, occiput, 

 nape, scapulars, interscapulars, back, rump, upper tail coverts, upper 

 wing coverts, and remiges fuscous to dull, dark sepia, a whitish to 

 pale buff nuchal collar formed by a series of large spots across the 

 nape, sometimes continuous and conspicuous, sometimes broken and 

 nearly concealed ; scapulars, and enth-e wings sometimes uniform dark 

 brown, sometimes indistinctly barred or transversely spotted with 

 paler, more cinnamomeous brown, these marks, when present, usually 

 most pronounced on the inner remiges; upper tail coverts spotted 

 with white; tail fuscous black to black, tipped with white and crossed 

 by four or five equally spaced, narrow bars of the same, the bars not 

 becoming appreciably grayer on the outer webs of the more lateral 

 rectices, and extending to the outer webs of even the outermost pair; 

 cheeks and auriculars dark sepia; chin and upper throat white, this 

 color extending upward behind the auriculars in the form of a half 

 crescent; remainder of underparts pale buff to warm buff, either 

 immaculate, or barred on the breast, upper abdomen, sides, flanlvs, 

 and thighs, and, occasionally the under tail coverts as well, with dark 

 fuscous, these bars, when present somewhat broader and m^uch more 

 Avidely spaced than the ventral bars in the adults; as a rule when the 

 underparts are immaculate, the upperparts are free from cinnamome- 

 ous bars or spots as well; iris greenish yellow; orbits, lores, and cere 

 yellowish; maxilla bluish; mandible lighter bluish, basally yellowish; 

 tarsi and toes light yellowish green. 



Natal down. — Not known. 



Adult male.— Wing 165-178 (169.1); tail 160-187 (176.1); cuhnen 

 from cere 14-15 (14.5); tarsus 56-58 (57.1); middle toe without claw 

 28-31 (28.7 mm.).«* 



Adult female. —Wing 176-180; tail 180-186; cuhnen from cere 15-16; 

 tarsus 53-58; middle toe without claw 30-30 mm.®^ 



Range. — Resident in tropical forests from southern ^Mexico (Vera- 

 cruz — Jalapa, Orizaba, Cuesta de Misantla, Uvero, and Cordoba; 

 Campeche — La Tuxpeiia) ; Guatemala (Vera Paz, Coba, Los Amates, 

 Choctum, and Laguna del Sotz, Peten); British Honduras (Cayo); 

 Honduras (Ceiba, Contoral, Alto Contoral, Yaruca, and near Manatee 

 Lagoon) ; to El Salvador (Mount Cacaguatique) and to Nicaragua 

 (Rio Escondido, Matagalpa, La Libertad, Santo Domingo, Rio Coco, 

 Lake Managua). 



Type locality. — Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico. 



'^ Six specimens from Mexico and Honduras. 

 '^ Two specimens from Honduras, 



