BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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rior primaries notched or serrated with brownish white or very pale 

 brownish buff; middle and greater wing-coverts with a terminal spot 

 of whitish or pale brownish buff; a conspicuous superciliary stripe of 

 ochraceous-buff; a deep brown postocular streak; auricular region 

 (except upper margin), suborbital, and malar regions, chin, throat, 

 and chest, ochraceous-buff, deepening on sides of throat and chest 

 into tawny or tawny-ochraceous; breast and abdomen buff or pale 

 ochraceous-buff; sides and flanks light brown (nearly raw umber) 

 heavily barred with blackish, and pale brownish buff'y (the latter on 

 tips of feathers); under tail-coverts whitish, tinged with brown and 

 irregularly barred with black; maxilla blackish with paler tomia; 

 mandible blackish or dusky terminally, pale basally; legs and feet deep 

 or dark horn color (in dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but back, scapulars, sides, and flanks less 

 distinctly barred, and feathers of breast narrowly margined with 

 dusky. 



Adult male. — Length (skin), 100; wing, 50; tail, 35; exposed cul- 

 men, 11.5; tarsus, 18.5; middle toe, 14." 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 98; wing, 47; tail, 33; exposed cul- 

 men, 13; tarsus, 16; middle toe, 13.* 



Highlands of Guatemala (Volcan de Fuego; Volcan de Santa Maria, 

 near Quezaltenango) and Chiapas (San Cristobal). 



Troglodytes brunneicollia (not of Sclater, 1858) Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 273 



(Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 



Aves, i, 1880, 103, part (Volcan de Fuego). 

 {^Troglodytes] brunneicollis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 7, part 



(Guatemala). 

 {Troglodytes brunneicollis.] Subsp. a. Troglodytes rufodlialus Sharpe, Cat. Birds 



Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 262 (Chiroatemon forest, Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala, 



alt. 10,000 ft.; coll. Salvin and Godman). 

 Troglodytes rufociliatus Keichenow and Schalow, Journ. fiir. Orn., 1884, 430 



(reprint of orig. descr. ). — Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxvii, 1904, 



200 (crit.). 

 T[roglodytes] rujocilialus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 554. 



«One specimen, from Quezaltenango, in coll. G. S.Miller. 



SOne specimen, Jrom San Cristobal, Chiapas. Another specimen, not sexed, but 

 probably a male, and one from Volcan de Santa Maria, Guatemala, measure, respec- 

 tively, as follows. 



