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red tips; under parts of body, with under tail-coverts, poppy red, the 

 feathers sometimes with indistinct terminal margins of pale pinkish; 

 middle wing-coverts dusky tipped with pinkish red; greater coverts 

 dusky edged with deeper and duller red; remiges and rectrices dusky 

 with narrow and indistin(-t grayish red edgings, these more distinct 

 on tertials; maxilla dusky horn color, mandible paler; iris orange;^ 

 legs and feet horn color; length (skins), 112-117 (115.8); wing, 58-63 

 (60.3); tail, 52-56.5 (54.8); exposed culmen, 8-9 (8.5); tarsus, 19-20 

 (19.3).^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but slightly duller in color, 

 with the red of a slightly more orange hue; length (skins), 111-120 

 (114); wing, 57-69 (57.8); tail, 53-56 (54.4); exposed culmen, 7-9 

 (8.1); tarsus, 18-19.5 (18.8).= 



Highlands of Guatemala (Chilasco, Totonicapam, Volcan de Fuego, 

 Solola, Todos Santos, Hacienda Chancol, Uspantan-Quitche, etc.) and 

 Chiapas (Pinabete, San Cristobal, etc.). 



Cardellina versicolor Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soo. Lond.,1863, 188, pi. 24, fig. 1 (Chi- 

 lasco, Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman); Ibis, 1866, 192 

 (highest districts of Guatemala). — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865. 265 

 (Totonicapam, Guatemala). 



ISelophaga versicolor] Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 244, no. 3533. 



[Ergaticus versicolor'] Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 11. 



Ergaliciis versicolor Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 165, 

 pi. 11, fig. 1 (Volcan de Fuego, Sololu, Totonicapam, and Chilasco, Guate- 

 mala).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 407.— Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 

 159 (central Chiapas). 



E[rgalicus] versicolor Ridgwav, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 531. 



Genus CERTHIDEA Gould. 



Cerlhidea Gould, Proc. Zool. Soo. Lond., pt. v, 1837, 7. (Type, C. olivacea Gould.) 

 Small long-legged, short-tailed, very plainly colored Mniotiltidse with 

 rather stout but acute bill; the tarsus much more than one-third as 

 long as wing and more than one-half as long as tail; coloration plain 

 olive, grayish brown or brownish grayabove, paler, sometimes nearlj 

 white, beneath, the thi-oat and a superciliary streak sometimes buffy or 

 rufescent. 



Bill rather small (exposed culmen less than two-thirds as long as tar- 

 sus, not longer than middle toe without claw, usually shorter), pointed, 

 deeper than broad at base; culmen distinctly ridged, nearly or quite 

 straight for basal half (more or less), the terminal portion very slightly 

 curved and the extreme base sometimes slightly convex; gonys straight 

 or very slightly convex, shorter than distance from nostril to tip of 

 maxilla; maxillary tomium with an indistinct notch near tip (sometimes 

 obvious only by very close inspection), its basal portion gradually curved 

 downward from a point beneath or slightly anterior to nostril. Nostril 



' Heyde and Lux, manuscript. '' Seven specimens. ' Five specimens. 



