BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 525 



white;" wings brown, conspicuously variegated with broad bands of 

 dusky, the interspaces between these dusky bands becoming buffj 

 white or dull white on outermost primaries; a conspicuous, sharply 

 defined superciliary stripe of white; lores and a broad postocular stripe 

 dark sooty or dull blackish; suborbital, malar, and lower half (or more) 

 of auricular regions, and under parts, white, slightly tinged with pale 

 brownish buff on flanks; a more or less distinct submalar streak of blacik; 

 chest (sometimes lower throat also), breast, sides, and abdomen more 

 or less densely spotted with black, the spots more or less roundish, 

 but varying to cordate or guttate form, those on sides of breast and 

 on sides sometimes transverse; flanks with the spots distinctly trans- 

 verse, sometimes forming regular broad bars; under tail-covei'ts 

 spotted or barred with black; thighs pale brown, narrowly barred 

 with darker brown or dusky; bill dusky horn color or blackish, 

 becoming abruptly paler on lower basal half (more or less) of mandible; 

 iris reddish brown;* legs and feet dark horn color in dried skins, dusky 

 ash color in life.* 



Adults inautiunii and enrhj lointer. — Similar to the spring and sum- 

 mer plumage but browner above, with the black and white markings 

 obscured by partial concealment; brown margins to feathers of pileum 

 broader, nearly concealing the blackish central spaces; nape uniform 

 brown; superciliary stripe and posterior under parts more buffy 

 white, especiallj' the latter. 



Young. — Essentially like adults, but pileum uniform sooty black; 

 paler markings of back, etc., light brown (wood brown or cinnamon) 

 instead of white; superciliary stripe obsolete from eye forward, the 

 blackish of forehead and crown coming down to upper eyelid and 

 lores; under parts duller whitish (more or less tinged with brownish 

 or grayish), the spots smaller, less sharply defined, less deeply black. 



Adidt ?Hafe.— Length (skins), 160-177 (171.1); wing, 72.5-77 (74.7); 

 tail, 67-71 (68.9); exposed culmen, 21-24 (23); tarsus, 22-25 (24.5); 

 middle toe, 16-18 (16. 9). '^ 



Adult female.— 'Length (skins), 160-165 (163); wing, 68-74 (71. 1); 

 tail, 61-68 (64.9); exposed culmen, 20-23 (22.4); tarsus, 22.5-25(24.1); 

 middle toe, 15.5-17 (16)." 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Puebla (Chietla), Morelos (Cuer- 

 navaca), Oaxaoa (Oaxaca; Dondominguello; CincoSenores; Cuicatlan; 

 Mitla; Cerro San Felipe), Guerrero (Chilpancingo; Tixtla; Omilteme), 

 and Jalisco (Sierra Nevada). 



Campylorhynchus jocosus Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 371 (Oaxaca, 

 Oaxaca, Mexico; coll. P. L.Sclater); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 17, pi. 3 (do. )■— 

 Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 106 (Oaxaca). — Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. 



1 Usually there are more or less distinct indications of one or two narrow white 

 bands or bars anterior to this. 

 f'F. Sumichrast, manuscript. 

 <= Ten specimens. 



