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than the black interspaces; lower rump and upper tail-coverts white, 

 usually immaculate but sometimes with a greater or less number of 

 narrow sagittate markings of black, the longer upper tail-coverts 

 more often with a narrow shaft-streak of black; wings black, the 

 coverts narrowl}^ barred with white, the secondaries more broadly 

 barred with the same; the primaries blotched on sub-basal portion 

 with white, the inner quills margined terminally with the same; tail 

 black, the inner web of middle pair of rectrices largely (usually 

 mostly) white, with a greater or less number of broad bars or trans- 

 verse spots of black, the outer web with a wedge-shaped streak of 

 white on proximal portion, next to shaft; auricular region, sides of 

 neck, chest, breast, and sides, plain light yellowish drab-grayish," 

 fading into paler (sometimes dull whitish) on upper tlu-oat, chin, 

 and malar region and passing into saffron yellow on center of abdo- 

 men; flanks and under tail-coverts white, stained or washed, more 

 or less, with yellowish, and rather broadly barred with black, the bars 

 more or less V-shaped on under tail-coverts; bill dull black or slate- 

 black; iris reddish;^ legs and feet greenish gray ^ in life; length (skins), 

 218-250 (233); wing, 132-144 (138.9); tail, 74-85 (80.5); culmen, 28.5- 

 33 (31); tarsus, 22.5-25 (23.8); outer anterior toe, 20.5-22.5 (21.2). « 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but without any red on, 

 crown, which shades from dull buffy white (like forehead) anteriorly 

 to smoke gray on occiput, the nape chrome yellow to cadmium orange, 

 and yellow of abdomen paler and more restricted; length (skins), 

 206-237 (223); wing, 129-138 (133.1); tail, 72.5-80 (76.5); cuhnen, 

 25-31 (27.2); tarsus, 21-23.5 (22.3); outer anterior toe, 18-20.5 

 (19.4).^ 



Southern Mexico, in State of Oaxaca (San Bartolome; Tehuante- 

 pec; San Geronimo; Santa Efigenia; Chicapa; Chimalapa; Chihuitan; 

 Huilotepec; Juchitan; Santo Domingo; Sierra de Santo Domingo) 

 and western Chiapas (Tonala). 



o The color is paler (light buffy grayish) in summer or worn plumage, darker (deep 

 yellowish drab-gray to yellowish broccoli brown) in fresh plumage. 

 & Sumichrast, manuscript, 

 c Twelve specimens. 

 d Ten specimens. 



