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broadly tipped with white ; ' under parts of body vermilion red, the sides 

 and flanks partly slate-gray; under tail-coverts blackish slate or slate- 

 black, broadly tipped with white; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 white; bill, legs, and feet blacker brownish black; iris brown; length 

 (skins), 130-134 (131); wing, 62.5-65 (63.5); tail, 69-72 (70.4); exposed 

 culmen, 8-9 (8.4); tarsus, 18-19 (18.2).' 



Adult f, -male. — Similar to the adult male, but forehead and anterior 

 portion of crown slate color, each feather with a central spot of black; 

 throat, etc., duller black or blackish slate; red of under parts slightly 

 paler, more pinkish; length (skins), 126-134 (133); wing, 61-65 

 (62.9); tail, 68-72 (70.2); exposed culmen, 7.5-8.5 (8); tarsus, 18.5-19 

 (18.9).' 



Young, fr.tt plumage. — Above, including entire pileum, uniform 

 sooty slate-color; under parts similar but paler, the median portion of 

 chest, breast, and abdomen dull chestnut, fading irtto pale cinnamon or 

 cinnamon-buff on center of abdomen; wings and tail as in adults, but 

 middle and greater wing-coverts indistinctly tipped with brownish. 



Highlands of Mexico, in States of Oaxaca, Vera Cruz, Mexico, 

 Puebla, Zacatecas, Sinaloa. Chihuahua (Jesus Maria), etc. 



Selophaga luiniatti Svvainson, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 368 ( Valladolid, 

 Mexico); Ihih, 1834, 784; Anim. in Menag., 1838, 293.— Sclatek, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1856, 292 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1858,299 ( La Parada, Oaxaca) ; 

 1859, 363 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 374 (Cinco Senores and Totontepec, Oaxaca); 

 1864, 173 (Valley of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 37 (Mexico).— Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 299; ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am. ), pi. 77, fig. 1; 

 Cat. N.Am. Birds, 1859, no. 219; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 259 (n. e Mexico; 

 Jalapa; Orizaba) . — Sumicmrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. , i, 1869, 546 (temperate 

 and alpine regions, Orizaba). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N.Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 322, part (Mexico).— Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 

 1874, 270 (Sierra Madre near Mazatlan; habits) ; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mas., no. 

 4, 1876, 16 (Sierra Madre near Zapotitlan). — Salvin, Ibis, 1878, 308, part 

 (Mexico; monogr.). — Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 335 (synonymy).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 181, part (Mexican 

 localities). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 130.— Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 418 (near City of Mexico; La Parada, Oaxaca; 

 Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 137 

 (Puebla). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 689.— 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H. , x, 1898, 40 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 8,000 ft. ). 



Sletoplmga] miniaia Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1846, 265. — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. 

 ■Birds, 1887, 530. 



ISetophaga] ni irdnta Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 240, no. 3524. — Sclatisr and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 10, part (Mexico). 



Muscicapa larmtti Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 2 (Mexico); see 

 Journ. fur Orn., 1863, 58. 



'This white occupies about the terminal half of the outer web on the outermost 

 rectrix, and extends for 20 to 30 mm. from tip on inner web; the white on the third 

 rectrix varies from 10 to 15 mm. in length; occasionally there is a small white i^pot 

 at tip of the fourth rectrix. 



" Five specimens. ' Four Hiiecimens. 



