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outer web of lateral rectrix usually mth a few irregular bars of pale 

 grayish brown near edge, the outer web of middle rectrices some- 

 times narrowly edged, or indistinctly barred along edge, with the 

 same; loral, suborbital, and auricular regions, chin, throat, foreneck, 

 and sides of neck uniform gray (about no. 6" or between that and 

 smoke gray) ; malar region bright poppy red, the feathers first black 

 then gray beneath surface; a large crescentic or semilunar patch of 

 black on chest; rest of under parts dull white medially, shading into 

 very pale pinkish gray or ecru drab laterally, each feather with a 

 subterminal cordate or roundish spot of black, these markings more 

 transverse or bar-like on flanks and under tail-coverts; under wing- 

 coverts pale grayish pink, those along margin of wing narrowly and 

 irregularly barred with black; inner webs of remiges (except outer- 

 most) pale buff-pink or salmon-pink for basal half (approximately) 

 the terminal portion dusky, strongly glossed or suffused with orange- 

 pink or salmon-pink, except along edges; under side of tail rufous- 

 orange broadly tipped with black, the lateral rectrices with a small 

 terminal spot of dull whitish or pale dull orange and sometimes with 

 a few narrow bars of the same alternating with much wider inter- 

 spaces of blackish along edge; bill dusky horn color (in dried skins); 

 legs and feet dusky grayish or horn color (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 259-329 (276); wing, 153-163 (157.9); tail, 95.5-115 (111.7); 

 cuhnen, 36-40.5 (38.2); tarsus, 28-30 (28.8); outer anterior toe, 

 22-24 (22.7).^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but red malar stripe 

 replaced by a similar area of cinnamon; length (skins), 265-300 

 (288); wing, 151-163 (154.7); tail, 104.5-113.5 (110.5); culmen, 

 34.5-38.5 (35.6); tarsus, 25-29 (27.7); outer anterior toe, 21-24 

 (21.8). *= 



Highlands of Chiapas (San Cristobal) and Guatemala (Cobdn to 

 Chisec; Tactic; Coban; Hacienda Chancol; Todos Santos; Volcan de 

 Santa Maria; (ialderas and Pajal Grande, Volcan de Fuego; Barranca 

 de los Chocoyas; Lake Atitlan; near Tecpam, 5,000-9,500 feet; 



a Ridgway's "Nomenclatxxre of Colors," plate 2. 

 b Sixteen specimens. 

 c Eight specimens. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Outer 

 ante- 

 rior toe. 



MALES. 



Nine adult males from Guatemala 



Seven adult males from Chiapas (San Cristobal) 



FEMALES. 



Seven adult females from Guatemala 



One adult female from Chiapas (San Cristobal). 



157 

 159.1 



153.5 

 163 



110. 

 112. 



110.3 

 112 



37.9 

 38.2 



35.6 

 34.5 



28.8 

 28.9 



27.7 

 27.5 



22.7 

 22.8 



21.7 

 22 



