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Adult female.~-L>Qngth (skins), 189-198 (190); wing, 85-87 (86); tail, 

 84-91 (88); exposed culrnen, 22-24 (22.7); tarsus, 27-28 (27.5); middle 

 toe, 17-18 (17.5).'' 



Extreme southeastern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Guichicovi) and 



Tabasco (Frontera; Teapa), and adjacent portion of eastern Guatemala.'' 



Campylorhyrichus zomitm (not Picolaptes zonatus Lafresnaye) Lawrence, Bull. 



U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 13 (Guichicovi, Oaxaca). 

 C[ampylorhynch.ug] zonatus Salvin and Godjian, Ibis, 1889, 235, part, in text 



(Teapa, Tabasco). 

 Heleodytes zonatus restrictus Nelson. Auk, xviii, ,Tan., 1901, 49 (Frontera, Tabasco; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Uns.) . 



HELEODYTES MEGALOPTERUS (Lafresnaye). 

 HtriTZILAC CAOTITS WREN. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileuni and nape dull black or dusky, the 

 feathers margined terminally or tipped with pale grayish brown or 

 buflfy brown (broccoli brown, pale drab, or pale hair brown), producing 

 distinct streaks or squamate markings ;'^^ hindneck broadly streaked 

 with black and white; back, scapulars, and upper rump broadly banded 

 with dull black and pale grayish buff or dull whitish; lower rump and 

 upper tail-coverts pale buffy graj-ish brown, more narrowly banded 

 or barred with blackish; middle pair of rectrices with inner web gray, 

 more or less banded or transversely spotted (often indistinctly) toward 

 base or margin with blackish ; outer web of middle rectrices and both 

 webs of all other rectrices black, broadly banded with white, this 

 not reaching the shaft, and more or less tinged with pale grayish 

 brown, especially on inner rectrices; wings blackish, broadly barred 

 or banded with dull white; a superciliary stripe of dull buffy white; 

 a narrow postocular streak of blackish; lores grayish; suborbital, 

 malar, and auricular regions white or pale buffy, narrowly streaked 

 with dusky; under parts dull white, more or less strongly tinged 

 with brownish buff posteriorly, the throat, chest, breast, and abdomen 

 marked with large, mostly roundish, spots of dull black or dusky, the 

 flanks broadly barred or banded with the same, the under tail-coverts 

 broadly barred or spotted; maxilla black or dusky, with paler tomia; 



a Four specimens. 



* There is a typical specimen, said to be from Guatemala (it has the usual "make" 

 of skins from that country), but withont definite locality, in the collection of the 

 American Museum of Natural History. 



«In fresh autumnal or early winter plumage the pale buffy, grayish brown color is 

 more extended, the black showing as partly concealed central spots or broad streaks; 

 in worn spring or summer plumage this paler color is much reduced in extent, and 

 the general effect more streaked. In addition to the terminal or external margin of 

 pale brownish the feathers often have a concealed spot or bar of the same color. It 

 may be further remarked that the color is more grayish anteriorly (on the forehead), 

 more buffy posteriorly (on the nape). 



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