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with streaks or cuneate spots of blackish. Otherwise much like 

 adults. 



Adult //iffZf. ^Length (skius), about 170.18-190.50 (177.04); wing, 

 69.85-76.71 (73.66); tail, 67. 31-82. SO (76.20); exposed culmen, 16.00- 

 17.27 (16.51); depth of bill at base, 10.41-12.45 (11.18); tarsus, 25.65- 

 27.94 (26.42); middle, toe, 19.05-20.32 (19.56).' 



Adult femaL-.—\^vci^A\.'i%-rim (72.90); tail, 76.20-77.72 (77.22); 

 exposed culmen. 15.24-16.00 (15.75); tarsus, 25.40-26.67 (26.16); mid- 

 dle toe, 18.29-20.07 (19..30).' 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz, Puebla, Mexico, San 

 Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, Morelos, Oaxaca, and Chiapas, and southwai'd 

 through highlands (pine region) of Guatemala, Salvador, and Honduras 

 to the Segovia River. 



P'qj'do rafescens Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. a., i, 1827, 434 (Temascaltepec, Mexico). 



P.{;ipilo] rufescens Bon.\parte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 487. 



AimopJiUa rii/t'.srexs Swainsox, Anim. in Menag., IS.jS, 313. — Sujiichrast, Mem. 

 Bost. Soc. X. H., i, 1869, 551 (temperate region. Vera Cruz). — Fekrari-Perez, 

 Proo. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 145 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Eidqway, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 5S7 (Segovia R., Honduras; crit.) . — Stone, Proc. Ac 

 Nat. Soi.Phila., 1890, 212 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz). —Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. 

 N. H. , X, 1898, 29 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; habits; song). 



A.limophiki] rufescmw Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 486. 



H.liiemophila] rufescens Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 132 (Mexico). 



Hiemophila ri-ifescens Scl.\ter, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858,98 (s. Mexico); 1859, 

 365 (Jalapa), 380 (Juquila and Villa Alta, Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 118 

 (Dueiias and Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala; Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Oaxaca). — 

 Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 18.59, 18 (Guatemala); 1860, 34 (Duenas, Guate- 

 mala). — DuGES, La Naturaleza, 1,1868,140 (Guanajuato). — Lawrence, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 22 (Guichicovi, Tehuantepec). — Salvix and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 394, pi. 29, fig. 2 ( Quezaltenango, Carrizal, 

 San Geronimo, and pine-ridge of Peten, Guatemala, etc. ) — Sharpe, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 725. — Lantz, Trans. Kansas Ac.Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 

 222 (Coatepec, Vera Cruz). 



' Eleven specimens. 

 ^ Four specimens. 



Specimens from Mexico compare in average measurements with those from Guate- 

 mala and Honduras, as follows: 



The specimens from Honduras are in much-worn plumage, and therefore the 

 measurements of wing and tail are not satisfactory for comparison. 



