BIRDS OJ* KOKTS ABfD MIDDLE AMEEIOA. 667 



MICROCERCULUS PHILOMELA (Salvin). 

 NieHTINGALE WREN. 



Young ? — Above deep sooty brown or sepia, brighter (dark mummy 

 brown) on back and scapulars, the feathers narrowly margined with 

 dusky, producing a rather distinct squamate appearance, these dusky 

 margins becoming less distinct (sometimes obsolete) on lower rump 

 and upper tail-coverts; tail uniform dark sooty brown or brownish 

 black; lesser and middle wing-coverts dark sooty brown or dusky, 

 with a broad subterminal crescentic bar of lighter brown, this paler 

 on the middle coverts, on some of which the color lightens medially 

 into a rather distinct small spot near tip of shaft; greater coverts 

 dusky, broadly edged with sepia brown, each with a small subtermi- 

 nal median spot of whitish or pale brownish buff; remiges dark sooty 

 brown or dusky, the secondaries very indistinctly edged with some- 

 what lighter sooty, the longer primaries indistinctly edged (in part at 

 least) with a more grayish hue; sides of head, chin, and throat dull 

 brownish gray, each feather of throat margined with sooty brown and 

 with a partly concealed central or basal spot of the same; chest, breast, 

 and upper abdomen similar, but with the sooty brown margin and 

 central space broader and darker; sides, flanks, under tail-coverts, and 

 thighs sepia or bistre brown, more or less distinctly but irregularly 

 barred with dusky, especially on flanks; bill blackish, the mandible 

 more brownish basally; legs and feet dusky brown (in dried skins); 

 length (skins), 99-103.5 (10i:2); wing, 55-57.5 (56.2); exposed culmen, 

 17.6-18 (17.7); tarsus, 20-21 (20.5); middle toe, 15-15.5 (15.2).« 



If I am right in supposing the birds described above to be in imma- 

 ture plumage, the adults of this form, like those of M. daulias and 

 M. luscinia, are probably plain brown above and with more gray on 

 the under parts. 



Highlands of Guatemala (Choctum; Chisec; forests above Lanquin; 

 forests between Cajabon and San Luis). 



Cyphorhinus Philomela Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 202 (Vera Paz, Gua- 

 temala; coll. O. Salvin); Ibis, 1861, 352 (Choctum, Guatemala). — Sclater, 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, Suppl. no. 120 (Chisec, Guatemala). 



ICyphorhinus] philomela Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 193, no. 2663. 



Microcerculus philomela Baikd, Eeview Am. Birds, Aug., 1864, 114 part (Vera 

 Paz). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1880, 76, pi. 5, fig. 3 

 (Choctum, forests above Lanquin, and forests between Cahabon and San 

 Luis, Guatemala). — Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vi, 1881, 297 (Vera Paz, 

 Guatemala) . 



[Microcerculus] philomela Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 6. 



a Two specimens, neither of them with sex determined. 



