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under tail-coverts with larger and more transverse spots of black; bill 

 dusky horn color, abruptly paler on lower basal half (or more) of 

 mandible; legs and feet light brown (in dried skins). 



Yoim.tj. — Very different in coloration from adults; pileum uniform 

 slaty black; back and scapulars broadly streaked with dull slaty blackish 

 and pale buffy brown, but without other markings; upper tail-coverts 

 plain brown (between wood brown and prouts brown); broad super- 

 ciliar J stripe brownish buff or pale wood brown ; broad postocular 

 stripe dull black or slate-black; under parts wholly immaculate, 

 including even flanks and under tail-coverts, the buff of posterior por- 

 tions duller than in adults. 



Adult male— Length, (skins), 165-180 (172.9); wing, 70-74 (72.5); 

 tail, 66-74 (70); exposed culmen, 18-21 (19.6); tarsus, 23-25 (24.2); 

 middle toe, 16-18 (17).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 156-175 (166.3); wing, 69.5-74 (70.5); 

 tail, 65-71 (68.3); exposed culmen, 17-21 (19.3); tarsus, 22-26 (23.8); 

 middle toe, 15.5-18 (16.9). « 



West-central Mexico, in States of Jalisco (Sierra Nevada; Tonila; 

 Bolanos; Volcan de Colima), northern Michoacan (Uruapan), Durango 

 (Chacala), Sinaloa (Plomosas), Sonora (western slope of Sierra Madre), 

 Chihuahua (Mina Abundancia; El Carmen; near Batopilas; Bravo), 

 and Queretaro (Jalpan), and Territorj'' of Tepic (San Blasito). 



Campylorhynchus gularis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 462 (Mexico; 

 coll. P. L. Sclater); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 17.— Baird, Review Am. Birds, 

 1864, 109. — Salvin and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 66.— Shaepe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 194, pi. 12, fig. 2.— Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 

 1889, 235. 

 [Campylorhynchus'] gularis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 192, no. 2653. — Sclater and 



Salvin, Nom. Av. JSTeotr., 1873, 5. 

 Seleodytes gularis Nelson, Auk, xv, Apr., 1898, 160 (s. Sinaloa; Nayarit Mts., 



Tepic; crit. ). 

 Clampylorhynchusl gularis Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1889, 235, in text (w. slope 



of Sierra Madre, Sonora). 

 Heleodytes ocddentalis Nelson, Auk, xiv, Jan., 1897, 69 (Sierra Nevada de Oolima, 



Jalisco; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 Heleodytes stHdulus Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii. May 29, 1899, 30 (Sierra 

 de Choix, n. e. Sinaloa; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.) . 



• Genus PHEUGOPEDIUS Cabanis. 



Pheugopedius ^ Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 79. (Type, SjiJteiiuni. corayw^ 

 Lichtenstein, = Thryothorus genibarbis Swainson. ) 



Medium sized Troglodytidae (wing 55-70 mm.) with lateral toes 

 equal, the inner united more to middle toe than to hallux, tail gradu- 

 ated for one-third its length or more, ninth primary much shorter than 



« Ten specimens. 



iiFrom " cpavyao, fliichten; KeSiov, offenes L^nd," 



"Not Tardus coraya Gmelin. 



