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auricular, and malar regions dull olive-grayish, the chin and throat 

 similar, but paler; chest and anterior portion of sides light yellowish 

 ochraceous-brown, becoming pale olive on flanks; median portion of 

 breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pale olive-yellowish; under 

 wing-coverts, axillars, and edges of inner webs of remiges sulphur or 

 primrose yellow; maxilla brown, darker basally; mandible paler 

 brown; legs and feet pale brownish (in dried skins). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 103-106 (104.7); wing, 55-61(57.8); 

 tail, 43-48 (44.7); exposed culmen, 12-13 (12.3); tarsus, 17.5-18 (17.8); 

 middle toe, 10. '^ 



Adult female.— Liength (skins), 110-117 (113.5); wing, 60; tail, 46; 

 exposed culmen, 13; tarsus, 18; middle toe, 10.* 



Southern Mexico, in States of Mexico (Valley of Mexico)?, Oaxaca 

 (Playa Vicente), Tabasco (Teapa), and Campeche (Apazote), and 

 southward through Guatemala to northern Honduras (Rio de las 

 Piedras). 



Hylophilus ochraceieeps Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 375 (Playa Vicente, 

 Oaxaca, s. w. Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 44, pi. 44, 

 fig. 5 (Playa Vicente; Choctum, Guatemala); Ibis, 1881, 306, part (Oaxaca; 

 Guatemala). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 397 (Choctum). — Baikd, 

 Review Am. Birds, 1866, 376, part (Oaxaca?). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 207, part. — Gadow, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., viii, 

 1883, 310, part.— Cherrie, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xiv, 1891, 521, part 

 (Mexico; crit. ). 



[Sylophilus] ochraceieeps Sclater and Salvin, NomT Av. Neotr., 1873, 12, part. 



II[ylopMlii,s'] ochraceieeps Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 479, part. 



PACHYSYLVIA OCHRACEICEPS PALLIDIPECTUS Ridgway. « 

 PALE-BREASTED PACHYSYLVIA. 



Similar to P. o. ochraceieeps, but upper parts slightly more oliva- 

 ceous, chest and sides much paler — pale yellowish or buffy olive, 

 instead of ochreous-brown, and under wing-coverts paler yellow (pale 

 primrose). 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 100-117 (107.2); wing, 57-59 (57.5); 

 tail, 40-43 (41.6); exposed culmen, 12-13 (12.7); tarsus, 17.5-18 (17.9); 

 middle toe, 10. <« 



Adult femxile. — Length (skin), 104; wing, 54; tail, 48; exposed cul- 

 men, 13; tarsus, 16.5; middle toe, 10.^ 



Southern Honduras (Segovia River) to Chiriqui. 



Hylophilus ochraceieeps (not of Sclater, 1859) Sclater, Ibis, 1881, 306, part 

 (monogr. ). — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1866, 376, part (Angostura, Costa 

 Rica). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 97 (Angostura, Costa Rica; 



« Three specimens. 

 & Two specimens. 



"Type, no. 47396, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus., adult male, Angostura, Costa Rica, July 8, 

 1867 ; J. Carmiol. "Iris yellow. ' ' 

 <i Five specimens. 

 « One specimen. 



