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greenish; mider tail-coverts pale brownish buffy; under wing-coverts 

 pinkish buff, deeper toward edge of wing, the inner webs of remiges 

 rather broadly edged with the same; maxilla dull black, mandible 

 brownish (in dried skins) ; legs and feet light brownish (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 160-170 (165); wing, 69.5-75 (72.8); 

 tail, 64.5-70 (66.6); exposed culmen, 26-27 (26.5); tarsus, 17.5-18 

 (17.8); middle toe, 12.5.« 



Adultfemale.— Length (skins), 153-178 (167); wing, 68.5-75 (72.8); 

 tail, 63.5-71 (66.5); exposed culmen, 26-29.5 (27.3); tarsus, 17-19 

 (17.8); middle toe, 11.5-13 (12.4).'' 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Playa 

 Vicente; Valle Eeal; Uvero; Buena Vista; Santa Lucrecia) and 

 Tabasco (Teapa), southward through Guatemala (Choctum; Coban; 

 Chisec; Khamkal; sources of Rio de la Pasion; Savana Grande; 

 Volcan de Agua; Cubilguitz) and British Honduras (Cayo; Toledo 

 District) to Honduras (Santa Ana; Omoa; San Pedro Sula). 



Eylomanes momotula Lichtenstein, Abh. Konigl. Akad. Wissenscli. Berol. for 

 1838 (1839), 449, pi. 4 (Valle Real [Vera Cruz?], Mexico; coll. Berlin Mus.).— 

 Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 164.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 

 201 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 256 (monogr.); 1859, 387 (Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz); 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 263 (Mexico; Choctum, Guatemala).— Moore, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 54 (Omoa, Honduras). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 

 1860, 400(Choctum, Guatemala).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 

 562 (tierracalienteof Vera Cruz). — Boucard, Liste Ois. r^col. Guatemala, 1878, 

 26.— RiDGWAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 471 (Santa Ana, Honduras).— 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvii, 1892, 332 (Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz; 



a Three specimens. 

 6 Ten specimens. 



While the number of specimens examined is considerable, those which have the 

 sex determined are relativey few; consequently the measurements do not make a 

 satisfactory showing as to geographic variations in this respect. As to coloration, 

 specimens from the States of Vera Cruz and Tabasco, Mexico, are appreciably darker 

 or less yellowish green above than most examples from Guatemala, British Honduras, 

 and Honduras, but the difference seems to be too slight and too inconstant to justify 

 further subdivision. 



