BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 



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white, tinged with yellow, the feathers slate-gray beneath the surface; 

 axillars and under wing-coverts mostly gray, sometimes tinged with 

 olive; bill black; legs and feet light brown (in dried skins); length 

 (skins), 141-152 (116); wing, 75.5-80 (77.4); tail, 70-73 (71.6); exposed 

 culmen, 12-13 (12.3); tarsus, 23-24.5 (23.9); middle toe, 13-14 (13.5).' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male in coloration, and not 

 always distinguishable, but averaging rather lighter slate color above, 

 with the back more strongly tinged with olive; lores and anterior 

 portion of suborbital and malar regions sometimes dull slate-gray, 

 instead of black; yellow crown-patch usually (?) rather smaller, with 

 the feathers, especially the more posterior ones, tipped with olive; 

 wing and tail shorter; length (skins), 140-152 (146.4); wing, 67-76 

 (71); tail, 64-69 (66.1); exposed culmen, 11.5-13 (12.4); tarsus, 22.6-24 

 (23.3); middle toe, 12.6-13.5 (13. 1).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; 

 Mirador; Motzorongo), Puebla (Acatlan), Oaxaca (Pluma; Tehuan- 

 tepec; Santa Efigenia), and Chiapas (Tuxtla); highlands of Guatemala 

 (Volcan de Agua; Volcan de Fuego; Alotenango; Savana Grande; 

 Barranca Honda), and southward to Nicaragua (Ometepe). 



E\uthlypis] lachrymosa Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 39, footnote (Lagunas, 

 Mexico; coll. Berlin Mus. ; ex. Sylvia lachrymosa 'LichtenBtein, laannscTipt). 



Euthlypis lachrymosa Sclateh, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 291 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz); 1859, 363 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 36 (Jalapa).— 

 Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 274 (Alotenango, Guatemala). — Sumichrast, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (temp. reg. Vera Cruz; habits) .—Nut- 

 ting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 392 (Ometepe, Nicaragua) . —Fbkeaei- 

 Pekez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 138 (Acatlan, Puebla). 



[Badleuterusl lachrymosa Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 314 (Lagunas). 



Setophagalachrym,osaTiAiRi>, Review Am. Birds, 1865,263 (Mexico; SavanaGrande, 

 Guatemala) . — Salvin, Ibis, 1878, 320, part (monogr. ). — Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 184, part pi. 11, fig. 2. — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., X, 1885, 430 (Jalapa and Cordova, Vera Cruz; Santa Efigenia, 

 Oaxaca; Volcan de Agua, Barranca-Hondo, and Alotenango, Guatemala) . 



ISetophaga'] lachrymosa Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 244, no. 3539. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 11. 



' Four specimens. 



" Seven specimens. 



Specimens from different localities average, respectively, as follows: 



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