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outer web of lateral rectrix usually with a few irregular bars of pale 

 grayish brown near edge, the outer web of middle rectrices some- 

 times narrowly edged, or indistinctly barred along edge, with the 

 same; loral, suborbital, and auricular regions, chin, throat, foreneck, 

 and sides of neck uniform gray (about no. 6" or between that and 

 smoke gray) ; malar region bright poppy red, the feathers first black 

 then gray beneath surface; a large crescentic or semilunar patch of 

 black on chest; rest of under parts dull white medially, shading into 

 very pale pinkish gray or ecru drab laterally, each feather with a 

 subterminal cordate or roundish spot of black, these markings more 

 transverse or bar-like on flanks and under tail-coverts; under wing- 

 coverts pale grayish pink, those along margin of wing narrowly and 

 irregularly barred with black; inner webs of remiges (except outer- 

 most) pale buff-pink or sahnon-pink for basal half (approximately) 

 the terminal portion dusky, strongly glossed or suffused with orange- 

 pink or sahnon-pink, except along edges; under side of tail rufous- 

 orange broadly tipped with black, the lateral rectrices with a small 

 terminal spot of dull whitish or pale dull orange and sometimes with 

 a few narrow bars of the same alternating with much wider inter- 

 spaces of blackish along edge; bill dusky horn color (in dried skins); 

 legs and feet dusky grayish or horn color (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 259-329 (276); wing, 153-163 (157.9); tail, 95.5-115 (111.7); 

 culmen, 36-40.5 (38.2); tarsus, 28-30 (28.8); outer anterior toe, 

 22-24 (22.7).* 



Advlt female. — Similar to the adult male but red malar stripe 

 replaced by a similar area of cinnamon; length (skins), 265-300 

 (288); wing, 151-163 (154.7); tail, 104.5-113.5 (110.5); culmen, 

 34.5-38.5 (35.6); tarsus, 25-29 (27.7); outer anterior toe, 21-24 

 (21.8)." 



Highlands of Chiapas (San Crist6bal) and Guatemala (Cob&n to 

 Chis^c; Tactic; Cobdn; Hacienda Chanc61; Todos Santos; Volcan de 

 Santa Maria; Calderas and Pajdl Grande, Volcan de Fuego; Barranca 

 de los Chocoyas; Lake Atitl^n; near Tecpdm, 5,000-9,500 feet; 



" Ridgway's "Nomenclature of Colors," plate 2. 

 6 Sixteen specimens. 

 « Eight specimens. 



