BIRDS OF KOKTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 587 



flecked or barred with dusky; sides and flanks bufl'y brown barred 

 with dusky, sometimes with paler bars also; under tail-coverts pale 

 buffy brown, tipped with white and barred with dusky; maxilla dark 

 brown or brownish black, with paler tomia; mandible paler brown, still 

 paler basally; legs and feet clear (usually light) horn brownish (in 

 dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults but under parts more uniform, with sides 

 and flanks very indistinctly, if at all, barred, the under tail-coverts 

 very narrowly and faintly barred, and feathers of breast usually nar- 

 rowly margined with dusky. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 105-116 (110); wing, 60-53 (51.2); tail, 

 40-44 (42.2); exposed culmen, 11.5-14 (12.6); tarsus, 18.5-20 (19.4); 

 middle toe, 12-14 (13. 2). « 



Ad^dt female.— Liength (skins), 110-121 (113); wing, 49-52 (50.5); 

 tail, 41-44 (42.5); exposed culmen, 12-13 (12.8); tarsus, 18-20 (18.9); 

 middle toe, 12.5-13 (12.9).* 



Southern and central portions of Mexican plateau, from States of San 

 Luis Potosi (near Jesus Maria), Hidalgo (Keal del Monte; Apixaco), 

 Mexico (City of Mexico; Amecameca; Popocatapetl; Salazar), and 

 Zacatecas (Plateado; Monte Escobedo), southward through States of 

 Vera Cruz, Puebla, Morelos, Tlaxcala, and Michoacan to Oaxaca (La 

 Parada; Cinco Senores; near Oaxaca City) and Guerrero (Chilpan- 

 eingo; Omilteme). 



Troglodytes hyeinalis (not T. hiemcdis Vieillot) Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1856, 290 (El .Jacale, near Cordova, V"era Cruz, Mexico). 



(t) Troglodytes didon'! Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 363 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz). 



Troglodytes brunneicolUs Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 297 (La Parada, 

 Oaxaca; s. w. Mexico; coll. A. SalK); 1859, 372 (Cinco Sefiores, Oaxaca); 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 23 (Cinco Senores; Jalapa). — Baied, Review Am. 

 Birds, 1864, 144 (La Parada; Orizaba, Vera Cruz). — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Exotic Orn., pt. iii, 1867, 46, pi. 23, fig. 2.— Sumicheast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., i, 1869, 545 (alpine reg., Orizaba, 1,500-2,500 meters alt.).— Salvin 

 and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 103, part (La Parada and 

 Cinco Senores, Oaxaca; El Jacale, Jalapa, and alpine reg.. Vera Cruz). — 

 Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 261.— Feeeari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., ix, 1886, 136 (Teziutlan, Puebla).— Cox, Auk, xii, 1895, 358 (Mount 

 Orizaba, Vera Cruz, 11,000 ft.).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 

 39 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 8,000 ft.). 



[Troglodytes'] brunneicolUs Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1864, 138 (diagnosis). — 

 Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 191, no. 2613. — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, 7, part. 



T\roglodyles'] brunneicolUs Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1862, 18 (La Parada, 

 Oaxaca). — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 554. 



Troglodytes brunneicolUs brunneicolUs Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, 

 no. 1354, Jan. 23, 1904, 200 (crit.). 



Hylematlirous brunneicolUs Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 406. 



a Ten specimens. s Six specimens. 



