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the State of Panama to Southern Mexico • the other, which is also found in Ecuador, 

 does not pass beyond Costa Rica. 



1. Auabazenops variegaticeps. 



Anabazenops variegaticeps, Scl. V. Z. S. 1856, p.. 289 "^j 1859, p. 382 %• Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xv. 

 p. 106 'j Scl. & SaLv. Ibis, 1860, p. 398 *j Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 106';. Frantz. 

 J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 304 " ; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.i. p. 555 ' y La Nat. v. p. 247 ' ; 

 Salr. P. Z. S.. 1870,, p. 192°; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 59 "j Sanchez, An. Mus. Nac. 

 Max. i. p. 97 " ; Kidgw. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 414 ". 



Supra rufo-brunnetis, pileo nigricante-olivaoeo, plumis singulis medialiter pallidioribus, superciliis a naribus et 

 macula infra oeulos cervinis, tectricibus auricnlaribus nigris albido intermixtis ; alis dorso pauIo rufescen- 

 tioribus, tectricibus majoribus ad apicem nigricantibus : subtus gutture sordide albo, plumis indistincte 

 fusco marginatis ; abdomine toto pallide brunneo, bypochondriis safcuratioribus ; cauda laete cinnamomea, 

 tectricibus subalaribus et remigibus intus ad basin cervinis : rostro paUide comeo, mandibula albida, 

 pedibus corylinis. Long, tota 6'0, alise 3'2, caudae rectF. med. 2'65, rectr. lat. 2*2, rostri a rictu 0-8, 

 tarsi 0'7.. (Desci. exempl. ex Jalapa, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico, Vera Cruz {Sanchez ^^), Hot region of Vera Cruz ^, Uvero ^ and Omealca ^ 

 {Sumichrast), Jalapa {de Oca), Cofre de Perote {M. Trujillo), Cordova {Salle ^), 

 Omilteme in Guerrero {Mrs. H. E. Smith), Villa Alta {M. Trujillo), Totontepec 

 {Boucard^y M, Trujillo), Choapam {Boucard^), Chimalapa {Sumichrast^); 

 Guatemala, Pie de la Cuesta in San Marcos, Santa Maria near Quezaltenango 

 ( W. B. Richardson), Barranco Hondo and Savana Grande between the Volcan de 

 Fuego and V. de Agua, Choctum \ and Kamkhal in Vera Paz {0. S. & F. D. G.^) ; 

 Costa Eica, Dota and Barranca {Carmiol % Rio Sucio (/. Cooper '^^), Candelaria 

 ( Boucard ^^) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui ^ and Bibalaz {Arce). 



We can detect no variation in this widely-spread species-, the range of which extends 

 from Southern Mexico to the State of Panama. In the former country it has long 

 been known as an inhabitant of the State of Vera Cruz, where it was discovered by 

 Salle near Cordova i, and where Sumichrast tells us it is found in the hot region ^- 

 This statement is no doubt correct so far as it goes, but A. variegaticeps has a con- 

 siderable vertical, as well as a horizontal range, for de Oca found it near Jalapa, 4000 

 feet above the sea, Trujillo at a still higher elevation on the slopes of the Cofre 

 de Perote, and Mrs. Smith's collection from Guerrero contained a specimen which was 

 shot in July near Omilteme at an elevation of 8000- feet in. the Sierra Madre del Sur. 

 In Guatemala, too, this species is found as low as 1200 feet, and as high as 6000 or 

 7000 feet above the sea.. 



Like most of the members of this family it is a denizen of forest districts, and is 

 probably resident wherever it occurs. 



Its nearest ally is A. temporalis of Ecuador, the differences being but slight, consisting 

 in the paler, less rufescent back of A. variegaticeps and the breast also less tinged with 

 that colour. 



