BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 529 



ih Auricular region immaculate white, except upper margin; breast barred 

 with white. (Interior of Colombia.) 



Pheugopedius fasoiato-ventris fasciato-ventris, adults (extralimital«^ 

 dd. Auricular region not immaculate white; breast plain black or dusky. 



e. Auricular region entirely black or dusky (sometimes finely streaked with 

 ■ whitish; flanks distinctly barred; brown of back, etc., lighter, duller; 



tail black, barred with pale brown. (Isthmus of Panama. ) 



Pheugopedius fasoiato-ventris albigularis, adults (p. 531) 

 ee. Auricular region partly white, flanks not distinctly, if at all, barred; 

 brown of back, etc., darker and more castaneous; tail chestnut, 

 barred with black. (Veragua, Chiriqui, and Costa Rica.) 



Pheugopedius fasciato-ventris melanogaster, adults (p. 532) 

 cc. Under parts of body plain brown. (Young.)'' 

 66. Under parts of body neither black, dusky, nor brown, 

 c. Throat streaked, spotted, or barred with black, or else the chest spotted. 

 d. Chest tawny; throat white, barred with black, or black spotted with white; 

 chest npt spotted, or else the ground-color tawny. 

 e. Chest plain tawny. 

 /. Throat black, spotted with white; abdomen pale tawny or buffy. 

 (Isthmus of Panama to Costa Rica. ) 



Pheugopedius hyperythrus, adults (p. 533) 

 ff. Throat barred with black and white; abdomen white. (Guiana, 

 Venezuela, Trinidad, and Tobago.) 



Pheugopedius rutilus, adults (extralimital)'' 

 ee. Chest spotted with black. (Province of Santa Marta, Colombia.) 



Pheugopedius laetus, adults (extralimital'') 

 dd. Chest white, spotted or variously marked with white or dusky. {Pheugo- 

 pedius maculipecius. ) 

 e. Darker and browner, the back olive-brown or russet-brown, the flanks 

 raw umber to russet. 

 /. Paler, the back more olive-brown, the flanks raw umber; chest, etc., 

 with black spots smaller; slightly smaller (adult male averaging wing 

 58.1, tail 47.7, exposed culmen 16.6, tarsus 22.1; adult female, wing 

 54. 6, tail 46. 9, exposed culmen 16. ) ( Southern Tamaulipas to Oaxaca. ) 

 Pheugopedius maculipectus maeulipectus (p. 534) 

 ff. Darker, the back more russet-brown, the flanks russet; chest, etc., with 

 black spots heavier; slightly larger (adult male averaging wing 60.9, 

 tail 48.9, exposed culmen 17.4; adult female, wing 56.6, tail 46.5, 

 exposed culmen 16.8). (Eastern Oaxaca, Tabasco, and Chiapas to 

 Honduras.) Pheugopedius maculipectus umbrinus (p. 535) 



a Thryothorus fasciato-ventris Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., viii, 1845, 337 (Bogota, Colom- 

 bia; type now in coll. Bost. Soc. N. ti.).— Thryothorus fasciativentrh Sclater and Sal- 

 vin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 493 (Remedies and Neche, Colombia); Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 90, part (Colombia); Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 229, pi. 14, fig. 1 {Bogota,) .—Pheugopedius fasciato-ventris 

 Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 134, part (Bogota). 



!> Only that of P. f. albigularis seen by me. 



cThryothorus rutilus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xxxiv, 1819, 55 (South 

 America; coll. Paris Mus.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 238.— Pheugo- 

 pedius rutilus Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 135, part.— TC/iri/oi/ioras] rulilans 

 Swainson, Ornithological Drawings, pt. 2, 1834, pi. Ih.— Troglodytes rulilans Uotaud, 

 Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 173. 



ii Thryothorus lietus Bsings, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, Aug. 10, 1898, 160 (Puebla 

 Vieja, Santa Marta, Colombia, 8,000 ft. alt.; coll. E. A. and 0. Bangs). 



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