MEXICAN SCLERURUS 



4. Sclerurus mexicanus anomalus 

 Bangs and Barb our 

 Mexican Sclerurus 



Sclerurus mexicanus mexicanus RIDGWAY, Birds of N. 

 and M. Amer., V, p. 166, 1911; STONE, Proc. Phila. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci., 1918, p. 262. 



Sexes alike. Length about 155 mm. (6.10 

 in.); tail 56 mm. (2.20 in.). Above deep warm 



FIG. 48. Sclerurus mexicanus anomalus 

 (Nat. Size) 



brown, with rump and tail coverts reddish 

 chestnut; tail very dark brown; throat and 

 chest bright tawny rufous, the chin paler; re- 

 maining under parts dark brown. Tail short 

 with feathers broad and rounded terminally, 

 the shafts stiff but not protruding; bill long and 

 slender, curved and notched near tip. 



Solitary and terrestrial in habits. Frequents 

 the deep forest. To be distinguished from the 

 following species 5. g. guatemalensis by its bright 

 reddish chestnut throat and chest. 

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