724 FRINGlLLm®. 



Adult (type of species). Similar to H. ruficauda, but having the 

 ear-coverts entirely black, the lateral bands on the crown also deep 

 black. Total length 7'3 inches, culrnen 0*7, wing 3, tail 3*4, 

 tarsus 0*9. 



Hub. Western Mexico. 



a. Ad. sk. Jnckitan, Tekuantepec, April 13, Salvin-Godruan Coll. 

 1870 (F. Sumichrast). (Type of species.) 



4. Hsemophila ruficauda. 



Chondestes ruficauda, Bp. C. R. xxxvii. p. 918 (1854). 

 ? Haemophila tolteca, Mull. Syst. Verz. Wirb. Mex. p. 50. 

 Haeinophila ruficauda, Scl. Sf Salv. His, 18G0, p. 898 ; Scl. Cat. 



Amer. B. p. 118 (1862) ; Salvin, Ibis, 1870, p. 114 ; Scl fy Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 33 (1873) ; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. 



iv. p. 22 (1876); Nutting §• Ridgw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. 



p. 383 (1884) ; Salvin fy Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am.er., Aves, i. 



p. 396, tab. xxx. fig. 2 (1886). 

 Calamospiza ruficauda, Gray, Mand-l. B. ii. p. Ill, no. 7671 (1870). 

 Ernbernagra ruficauda, Gray, t. c. p. 91, no. 7345 (1870). 

 Embernagra tolteca, Gray, t. c. p. 91, no. 7346 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above bight brown, washed with ashy on 

 the mantle and upper back, which are streaked with black ; the 

 lower back and rump more uniform and paler brown ; scapulars 

 chestnut, with black shaft-streaks : lesser wing-coverts light chestnut ; 

 median coverts black, externally chestnut, and edged with white at 

 the ends ; greater coverts blackish, externally ashy or pale rufous, 

 inclining to whitish near the ends of the feathers ; bastard-wing 

 and primary-coverts blackish, edged with rufous ; primary-coverts 

 blackish, edged with rufous; quills blackish, edged with ashy 

 brown, the secondaries with rufous, whiter round the margins 

 of the innermost ; upper tail-coverts pale rufous, with whitish 

 fringes ; tail-feathers dusky brown, with rufous margins and pale 

 tips, the two centre ones almost entirely pale rufous with dusky 

 centres ; crown of head black along the sides, washed with rufous, 

 the centre of the crown with a broad white streak to the nape ; 

 lores and a broad eyebrow creamy wbite, as well as the feathers 

 round the eye; feathers in front of the latter and ear-coverts 

 black, the latter with a central patch of pale ashy brown, and 

 mottled with fulvous on the hinder margin ; cheeks and throat 

 pure white ; sides of neck ashy brown ; fore neck entirely ashy 

 grey ; breast and abdomen white ; sides of body, flanks, and under 

 tail-coverts pale sandy brown ; thighs sandy brown, rufous ex- 

 ternally ; under wing-coverts and axillarics pale sandy buff ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy rufous along the inner edge. Total length 

 7 inches, culmen 0*65, wing 2-95, tail 3*1, tarsus 0'9. 



Hub. Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. 



a. Ad. sk. Choacus, Guatemala, Feb. 24, 1860 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(0. S.). 



b. Ad. sk. Choacus (O. S.). Sclater Coll. 



c. 5 a d- sk. Costa Rica (J. Carmiol). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



