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somewhat oblique black bands varying in width from about 10-30 

 mm.; the relative width of the light and dark bars varying with the 

 individual, but with the subterminal black band always broader than 

 any of the others; sides of head like crown, but with relatively less 

 blackish; chin and upper throat whitish to pale tawny to cinnamon- 

 buff with fine dusky shaft lines; lower throat, breast, and abdomen, 

 sides, and flanks more heavily washed with avellaneous to pale 

 ochraceous-tawny and with broad tear-shaped, blackish or dark 

 fuscous shaft streaks, these streaks largest and most conspicuous on 

 the sides of the lower throat, sides, and flanks; thighs barred with 

 fuscous or blackish; under tail coverts also barred but less abundantly 

 than the thighs; under wing coverts huffy to tawny- white streaked 

 with fuscous; cere and base of bill olive yellow to greenish yellow; 

 tip of bill plumbeous black; iris brown; tarsi and toes dull greenish- 

 yellow; claws plumbeous-black. 



Natal down. — Dense and woolly, "nearly white on head and breast, 

 passing into grayish posteriorly upon the head, throat, sides of breast, 

 tibiae and back." (Mearns) 



Adult male.~W\ng 337-400 (367.1); tail 192-228 (206.4); culmen 

 from cere 24-29 (26.3); tarsus 80-95 (87.3); middle toe without claw 

 36-47.1 (42.0); middle claw 19-24 (21.4 mm.). " 



Adult jemale.—Wmg 355-400 (381.5); tail 203-244 (222.3); culmen 

 from cere 25-33 (27.9); tarsus 74-107 (92.9); middle toe without 

 claw 38-48 (42.2); middle claw 19.1-25 (21.8 mm.). ^^ 



Range. — Resident from southern Arizona (Fort Huachuca, Agua 

 Fria, Tonto Creek, Santa Catalina Mountains, south of Gila River, 

 Bowie, Lowell, Fossil Creek, Tombstone, Rio Verde, Pima County), 

 southern New Mexico (San Luis Mountains; Gila River, east of Cliff; 

 near Silver City), and the Rio Grande Valley of Te.xas (Starr and 

 Cameron Counties) south throughout Mexico (records from Sonora, 

 Chihuahua, Tamaulipas, Sinaloa, Nuevo Le6n, Nayarit, Veracruz, 

 Colima, Puebla, Jalapa, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tehuantepec, and 

 Yucatan (including Cozumel Island)), British Honduras (Belize), 

 Guatemala (many localities), Honduras (Omoa), Nicaragua (Rio 

 Escondido; Greytown), El Salvador (except the mangrove swamps 

 on the coast; Lake Olomega, Rio Goascoran, Mount Cacaguatique, 

 San Salvador, Hacienda Zapotitan Volcan de San Salvador, Rio San 

 Miguel, San Jose del Sacare, Lake Guija, Miraflores) ; and Costa Rica 

 (many localities), Panama (Chitra, Anc6n, Bugaba, Veraguas, 

 Perme) and to the coastal areas of northern Colombia. 



Type locality. — Mexico. 



•' Twenty-nine specimens from Texas, Mexico. Costa Rica, and Panama. 

 '8 Thirty specimens from Texas, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, 

 Costa Rica, and Panama. 



