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yellowish olive; lesser wing-coverts dusky, broadly tipped or margined 

 with saffron yellowish; middle coverts dusky at base, broadly tipped 

 with white or yellow; rest of wings dark grayish brown with paler 

 edgings, these white, or nearly so, on greater coverts; tail yellowish 

 olive. 



Toung {first phimage). —Rea.d, neck, and under parts (including 

 throat, etc.) yellow, the color duller on pileum and hindneck; back 

 and scapulars olive; rump and upper tail-coverts dull yellow (gallstone 

 or dull saffron), like pileum and hindneck; wings and tail as in the 

 immature plumage, described above, but greater coverts broadly 

 tipped (on outer webs) with dull yellowish white, secondaries broadly 

 edged with white, primaries more broadly edged with pale gray (pass- 

 ing into white terminally) and with a white patch at base. 



Adult male.— Tuength (skins), 228.6-279.4 (247.9); wing, 116.1-142.2 

 (125); tail, 101.1-117.3 (107.4); culmen, from base, 26.2-30.2 (27.9); 

 depth of bill at base, 12.2-14.5(13.2); tarsus, 29.7-32.5 (31.2); middle 

 toe, 20.3-23.9 (22.4).^ 



Adult female.— hengih (skins), 218.4-251.5 (238.8): wing, 108-126.2 

 (113.8); tail, 91.7-114.8 (101.1); culmen, from base, 24.6-27.7 (26.4); 

 depth of bill at base, 11.9-13.7 (13); tarsus, 28.5-30.7 (30); middle toe, 

 17.8-22.4 (21.1).^ 



Southwestern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Putla, Barrio, Chihuitan, 

 Juchitan, Santa Efigenia, Tehuantepec, Huilotepec, Juchitan, Chima- 

 lapa, etc.) and Chiapas (Tonala, Huehuetan), and southward through 

 Guatemala (Vera Paz, San Geronimo, Retalhuleu, Savana Grande, San 

 Pedro Martir, Zacapa, etc.), Salvador (Acajutla), and Honduras (Coma- 

 yagua), to Nicaragua (San Juan); British Honduras (Corosal)?. 



Pslarocolim} gidaris Waglee, Isis, 1829, 764 (Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; ex Lichten- 

 stein, manuscript). 



7c(erus jfi/iam LiCHTENSTEiN, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 1 ("Mexico") ; Journ. 

 fur Orn., 1863, 56.— Des Murs, Icon. Orn., 1845-46, pi. 9.— Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 358 (Comayagua, Honduras); Ibis, 1883, 371, part 

 (s. Mexico, Yucatan, British Honduras, Guatemala); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xi, 1886, 384, part (Tonala, Chiapas; Putla and Tehuantepec, Oaxaca; Savana 

 Grande and San Pedro Martir, Guatemala; Corosal, British Honduras?). — 

 Sclater and. Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 19 (Vera Paz, Guatemala; Comayagua, 

 Honduras). — Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 468 (Guatemala) ; 1860, 195 (San Geronimo, 

 Guatemala).— (?) Taylor, Ibis, 1861, 111 (Honduras).— Owen, Ibis, 1861, 

 62, pi. 2, fig. 5 (San Geronimo, Guatemala; descr. and colored fig. of eggs). — 

 Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1867, 49, part (San Geronimo, Guatemala; 

 San Salvador; San Juan, Nicaragua). — Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 no. 4, 1876, 23 (Barrio, Chihuitan, Juchitan, and Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1887, 475, part (Putla, Bar- 

 rio, Chihuitan, Juchitan, and Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca; Tonala, Chiapas; 

 Corosal, British Honduras?; Vera Paz, San Geronimo, Retalhuleu, Savana 

 Grande, San Pedro Martir, and Zacapa, Guatemala; Acahutla, Salvador; 

 Comayagua, Honduras; Nicaragua). 



'Ten specimens. ''Six specimens. 



