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by its more rufous dorsal surface, which is entirely of a warm rufous 
brown. The superciliary line and the rest of the sides of the head are 
marked as in the other species. The sides of the neck and breast are 
ashy, and the flanks and under tail-coverts are fulvous brown, brighter 
than in the other forms. The rest of the lower parts are white. The 
wings and tail are longer, the bill is about the same. 
A specimen of Hemzura taken by us at Acapulco is indistinguish- 
able from Yucatan specimens, representing dbrachyura, so the 
present species is probably not widely spread along the west 
coast of Mexico. 
Henicorhina mexicana, new species. Merxican Woop 
WREN. 
Type, No. 143007, U. S. Nat. Museum, Dept. Agric. coll., g, Jico, Vera 
Cruz, Mexico, June 24, 1893. Collected by E. W. Nelson (Orig. No. 1272). 
Distribution. — Both coasts of Mexico north of the Isthmus of Tehuante- 
pec, in the heavy forests of the mountain slopes of the ‘tierra templada.’ 
There are specimens in the collection from the Sierra Madre near Chil- 
pancingo, Guerrero; Mt. Zempoaltepec, Oaxaca, and Jico in Vera Cruz. 
Description of tyfe.—Entire top of head, neck and back with upper 
tail-coverts rusty rufous, a little duller on the head but showing no 
marked contrast between that and back; exposed parts of folded wings 
and tail similar to back and crossed by fine blackish bars; lores dark 
grayish; superciliary stripe white with fine black edgings to feathers; 
postocular stripe blackish; feathers of ear-coverts and sides of throat and 
neck with white shaft-lines and black borders, producing a bright black 
and white striped pattern; chin and throat whitish; breast dark ashy; 
flanks, abdomen and under tail-coverts dark rufous. 
The ashy-breasted Wrens of this genus, in Mexico and Guate- 
mala, have been constantly referred to certain South American 
species. In Baird’s ‘Review of American Birds’ he gives 
fleterorhina griseicollis as questionably from Guatemala to Mexico. 
Salvin and Godman in the ‘ Biologia Centrali-Americana,’ Vol. I, 
p- 8c, unite all the Mexican and Central American birds of this 
style under Henicorhina leucophrys Toch. Having a considerable 
series of these birds before me from numerous Mexican localities, 
in addition to the U. S. National Museum series from Central 
America, I find no difficulty in recognizing three distinct forms 
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