746 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Toung.first j)lumage.— KhoYQ, including pileum, plain olive, becom- 

 ing olive-greenish on edges of remiges and rectrices ; middle and greater 

 wing-coverts tipped with brownish buff, forming two rather distinct 

 narrow bands across wing; sides of head plain olive, relieved by a 

 buffy whitish supra-auricular streak, the lores more dusky; malar 

 region, chin, throat, median portion of lower breast, abdomen, and 

 under tail-coverts, pale dull buffy; chest, sides of breast, and sides 

 plain pale buffy olive, the posterior portion of sides, and flanks, more 

 decidedly buffy. 



Admit inale.—L&Tigth (skins), 115-118 (116.7); wing, 51-53 (52); tail, 

 63-57 (55.2); exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.6); tarsus, 20-22 (20.9).' 



Admit female.-'LQngth. (skins), 110-123 (118.2); wing, 48-51 (49.6); 

 tail, 52-58 (64.4); exposed culmen, 10-11 (10.6); tarsus, 18-22 (20.3)." 



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

 Mirador; Orizaba; Jico; Pasa Nueva), Puebla (Huachinango), Oaxaca 

 (La Parada; Cinco Senores; Tuxtepec; near Toton tepee), and Chiapas 

 (Ocuilapa, August 27; Guichicovi, September); Guatemala (in winter 

 only?). 



Sdophaga rufifrons SwAitfSON, Anim. in Menag., 1838, 294 (Mexico). 



S[etophaga] ruffrons Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1846, 265. 



ISeloplmga] rufifrom Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 245, no. 3554. 



\_Bmkuterus] rufifrona Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 314. 



Basileuterus rufifrons Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 291 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz); 1858, 299 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1865, 284 (monogr.); Cat. Am. Birds, 

 1862, 35 (Mexico).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 296, footiiote; 

 Review Am. Birds, 1865, 248, part (Jalapa and Mirador, Vera Cruz).— 

 SuMiCHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (temp. reg. Vera Cruz).— 

 Lawrence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 16 (Guichicovi, Chiapas, 

 Sept.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 175, part 

 (Jalapa, Mirador, Orizaba, La Parada, Cinco Seiiores, Guichicovi, etc.).— 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 397, part (Jalapa; Cinco Seiiores).— 

 Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xv, 1892, 119, in text (crit.; Mirador; 

 Orizaba; Guichicovi).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 25 

 (Jalapa). 



[^Basileuiei-its} rufifrons Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 10, part. 



Blasileuterus] rufifrons Ridgwav, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 532, part (Mirador; 

 Orizaba). 



Basileuterus delattrii (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 

 250 (Orizaba). 



BASILEUTERUS RUFIFRONS JOUYI Ridgway. 



JOTJY'S WAEBIER. 



Similar to B. r. rufifrons, but back, scapulars, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts dull grayish olive, passing gradually into the but slightly 

 different brownish gray of hindneck and sides of neck, instead of 

 olive-green abruptly contrasted with the nearly pure gray of hindneck 



' Four specimens. ^ Five specimens. 



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