76. H-EMOPHILA. 725 



5. Hsemophila rufescens. 



Pipilo rufescens, Swains. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 434 (1827) ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 487 (1850). 



Aimophila rufescens, Sivains. An. in Menag. p. 313 (1837) ; Bp. 

 Consp. i. p. 486 (1850) ; Sumichr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N H. i. p. 551 

 (1869). 



Embernagra pyrgitoides, Lap-. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 97. 



Hseniopliila rufescens, Cab. Mm. Hein. Th. i. p. 132 (1850) ; Scl. 

 P. Z. S. 1858, p. 98, 1859, pp. 365, 380 ; id. | Salv. Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 18, 1860, p. 34; Scl. Cat. Amer. B. p. 118 (1802); Ihtgh», La 

 Nat. p. 140 (1868) ; Scl. # Salv. Nomencl. An. Neotr. p. 33 (1873) ; 

 Later. Bull." U.S. Nat. Mus. iv. p. 22 (1876) ; Salvi/i $ Godmau, 

 Biol. Centr.-Amer., Ave*, i. p. 395, pi. xxix. tig. 2 (1886). 



Geospizopsis melanotis, Bp. C. P. xlii. p. 955 (1856) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 

 1856, p. 306. 



Embernagra rufescens, Gray, Hand-l. B. ii. p. 91, no. 7343 (1870). 



Adult. General colour above rufous-brown, rather clearer brown 

 on the lower back and rump, which are nearly uniform ; the mantle 

 and upper back mesially streaked with black ; lesser and median 

 coverts like the back, with pale fulvous edges to the tips ; greater 

 coverts more decidedly rufous, paler brown on the edges and tips ; 

 bastard-wing blackish with hoary grey edges ; primary-coverts 

 dusky brown, externally rufous ; quills dusky brown, edged with 

 rufous, the secondaries externally chestnut, the innermost secon- 

 daries with pale tips ; upper tail-coverts like the back, fringed 

 with fulvous at the ends ; tail-feathers rufous, rather browner on 

 the inner web : crown of head deep chestnut, forming two lateral 

 bands, divided by an ashy streak down the centre of the crown, 

 which widens out into a broad ashy band on the hind neck, on the 

 sides of which the chestnut bands are continued from the crown and 

 are streaked with black ; lores whitish, continued into a distinct 

 ashy eyebrow, which is separated from the chestnut crown by a 

 line of black ; eyelid white, with a dusky spot in front of the eye ; 

 ear-coverts and sides of face dull ashy with an ochreous tinge ; the 

 feathers below the eye and a line along the upper edge of the ear- 

 coverts black ; cheeks and throat pale ochreous, separated by a 

 broad malar line of black ; sides of neck ashy ; abdomen pure 

 white ; fore neck and breast pale ochreous, deepening into rich 

 ochreous brown on the sides of the body, flanks, and under tail- 

 coverts ; thighs brown externally, ashy brown internally ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries ashy whitish, washed with ochre ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy along the inner edge. Total length 6*4 inches, 

 culmen 0-7, wing 2-9, tail 2-9, tarsus 1. 



There is considerable variation in size in this species, males 

 having the wing from 2*6-3 inches. The sexes are alike in 

 colour. The nesting plumage appears to be rather darker, the 

 mesial streak on the crown becomes almost obsolete, and the under 

 surface of the body is more ashy and less ochreous. 



Young. Darker than the adult, with the crown blackish, without 

 much rufous and thickly streaked with black ; the eyebrow, sides of 

 face, and under surface of body washed with olive-yellow, more 



