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auriculars brownish; rectrices with their marking more definitely ar- 

 ranged in bars ; remiges more pointed. 



/Mz/ewaZ.— -Forehead, broad superciliaries, and lores pale cream buff; 

 center of crown dusky sepia anteriorly becoming bister to snuff brown 

 posteriorly and on the occiput ; interscapulars bright tawny-olive to Sayal 

 brown with narrow whitish shaft streaks which broaden out terminally 

 into triangular spots, the whitish shafts edged laterally with clove brown, 

 which extends out laterally as incomplete bars of the same; upper wing 

 coverts similar but with dusky clove brown shafts, the greater coverts 

 tipped with buffy white, edged with blackish proximally; scapulars and 

 secondaries bright tawny-olive to bright dark ochraceous-tawny heavily 

 mottled with clove brown and irregularly and incompletely barred with 

 pale cinnamon-buff; primaries as in adults but more pointed terminally; 

 back, lower back, rump, and upper tail coverts as in adult but indistinctly 

 but abundantly barred with Saccardo's umber ; all the rectrices snuff brown 

 barred with cinnamon, each of the cinnamon bars broadly edged on both 

 sides with blackish ; chin and upper throat pale cream buff but the feathers 

 with dusky shaft streaks ; lower throat, breast, abdomen, sides, and flanks 

 dark hair brown to pale sepia, the feathers with distally spreading 

 triangular terminal spots of white or cinnamon-buff, terminally edged 

 with blackish. 



Natal down. — Apparently unknown. 



Adult male.— Wing 138-155 (146.2); tail 113-149 (131.6); culmen 

 from base 18.7-20.8 (19.7) ; tarsus 48.8-54 (51.7) ; middle toe without 

 claw 36.2-50 (40.5 mm.).« 



Adult female.— Wing 129.9-142.6 (134.8) ; tail 107.8-124.1 (118.6) ; 

 culmen from base 17.6-19.2 (18.4) ; tarsus 49.0-55.5 (50.9) ; middle toe 

 without claw 35-47.7 (40.0 mm.).^^ 



Range. — Resident in second growth and brushy places from the upper 

 limits of the Arid Lower Tropical Zone to over 9,000 feet in the Humid 

 Upper Tropical Zone, from the Pacific Cordillera of Guatemala (Sierra 

 Santa Elena, Panajachel, and Solola), the higher mountains throughout 

 El Salvador (Volcan de San Miguel, Volcan de Santa Ana, Mount 

 Cacaguatique, Los Esesmiles, San Jose del Sacare), and Honduras 

 (Tegucigalpa; Alto Contoral; Cerro Contoral; Santa Barbara; Yaro, 

 Santa Marta; Rancho Quemada, La Libertad Copan) to northern 

 Nicaragua (Jalapa).*® 



" Twenty specimens from Honduras, Nicaragua, and the Pacific slopes of 

 Guatemala. 



" Twelve specimens from Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. 



■" Birds from the Pacific Cordillera of Guatemala and from El Salvador are 

 intermediate between this form and the nominate race. I have seen specimens from 

 the former area that are clearly nicaraguae and others from El Salvador that are 

 just as clearly leucophrys. Inasmuch as the bulk are nearer to nicaraguae I put 

 them all in this form. 



