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terminally banded with pale buffy to almost white and with blackish 

 blotches between the tips and the subterminal bands; median rectrices 

 with a fairly narrow chestnut shaft streak paling laterally into buffy dark 

 vermiculated and speckled with chaetura drab, and crossed by six to 

 eight wavy whitish bars, each of which is broadly edged proximally and 

 narrowly edged distally with blackish ; the width of the chestnut median 

 area increases laterally on each pair of rectrices, with consequent re- 

 duction of the drab and blackish areas, until on the outermost ones the 

 entire feathers are chestnut, incompletely banded with chaetura drab; 

 lores like the forehead; upper cheeks and auriculars similar also; sides 

 of neck like the hindneck ; chin and throat mouse gray with a slate tinge ; 

 breast and upper abdomen amber brown to bright cinnamon, paling 

 posteriorly to cinnamon-buff; feathers of sides cinnamon edged with 

 grayish drab, splotched with black and white; flanks and under tail 

 coverts buffy brown to olive-brown edged with buffy to cinnamon and 

 with large subterminal blotches of black and with blackish freckling on 

 the more basal brownish parts; thighs olive-brown; under wing coverts 

 dark olive-brown freckled with russet; bare skin around eye, bill, tarsi, 

 and toes red. 



Juvenal. — Similar to the adult, but the upper abdomen pale buffy whit- 

 ish narrowly barred with drab ; middle of breast pale cinnamon narrowly 

 barred with drab; secondaries as in adult but with much less external 

 buffy mottling, the edges more cinnamomeous, darker and duller. 



Downy young. — Forehead and superciliaries broadly antimony yellow 

 becoming suffused posteriorly with buckthorn brown; middle of crown 

 and occiput dark auburn ; scapular area cinnamon-buffy to pinkish cinna- 

 mon; spinal tract very broadly auburn, fading laterally to pale Mikado 

 brown and pinkish cinnamon ; wings and thighs auburn obscurely mottled 

 with dusky ; chin, throat, breast, abdomen, and sides between cream color 

 and Naples yellow, washed on the breast with pale ochraceous ; cheeks 

 pale buckthorn brown. 



Adult male.— Wing 147-166 (154.8); tail 117-121 (118.9); culmen 

 from the base 20.4-22.5 (21.6) ; tarsus 49.1-54 (51.8) ; middle toe with- 

 out claw 42.0-45.6 (43.2 mm.).^^ 



Adult female.—Wmg 148-152 (150); tail 110-119 (114); culmen 

 from base 20.0-21.7 (20.6) ; tarsus 44.5-47.4 (46.6) ; middle toe without 

 claw 37.4-41 (38.8 mm.).^^ 



Range. — ^Resident in the mountain forests of the State of Veracruz, 

 Mexico (Jalapa, Orizaba, Jico). 



Type locality. — Jalapa, Veracruz. 



^ Seven specimens from Jico, Veracruz. 



" Four specimens from Jico, Orizaba, and Jalapa, Veracruz. 



