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and rounded, the third and fourth quills being longest, the fifth is longer than the 

 second, which nearly equals the sixth ; the first is a little longer than the longest 

 secondaries. The tail is long and much rounded, the feathers being rather narrow. 

 The tarsi are strong, the toes rather short, the middle toe and claw being a little 

 shorter than the tarsus. 



A. Caput stria verticali obvia, swperciliis elongatis. 



a. Stria verticali fusca aut fusca nigro variegata. 



a'. Stria utrinque rictali nigra. 



1. HsBmophila rufescens. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 2.) 



Pipilo rufescens, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 434 ^; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 486 ^ 



Aimophila rufescens, Sw. An. in Menag. p. 313 ' ; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 551 *. 



Hcmophila rufescens. Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 132 ' ; Sol. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 98 ^ 1859, pp. 365 '', 380 'j 



Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 18 ' ; 1860, p. 34" ; Duges, La Nat. i. p. 140 " ; Lawr. Bull. 



U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 22 ". 

 Embernagra pyrgitoides, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 97 ". 

 Geospisopsis melanotis, Bp. Compt. Rend. xlii. p. 955 " ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 306^'. 



Supra castaneo-brunnea, dorso medio indistincte fusco guttato, capite summo castaneo utrinque nigro Umbato, 

 stria verticali rufo-grisea, superciliis et capitis lateribus grisescentibus, oculorum ambitu et striga post- 

 oculari nigris, ciliis ipsis albis ; subtus albida, pectore et lateribus ochraceo-griseo lavatis, stria utrinque 

 rictali nigra, ; rostri maxilla nigra, mandibula pallida, pedibus cameis. Long, tota 6'7, alee 2'8, caudae 

 3-0, rostri a rictu 0'8, tarsi 1-0. (Descr. exempl. ex Orizaba, Mexico. Mus. uostr.). 



2 mari simUis. 



Juv. Capite summo indistincte striate, capitis lateribus obscure ochraceis fusco striatis, corpore subfcus flavido, 

 pectore fusco guttulato. (Descr. av. juv. ex Duenas, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico ^ ^ ^^ (SalU ^^), Temiscaltepec (Bullock ^), Guanajuato (Duges ^^), temperate 

 region of Vera Cruz, Orizaba (Sumichrast ^), Jalapa (de Oca '', Hoge), JuquUa, 

 Villa Alta (Boucard ^), Guichicovi (Sumichrast ^^) ; Guatemala (Skinner ^), 

 Duenas (0. S. i*'), Quezaltenango, Carrizal, San Geronimo, pine-ridge of Poctun 

 (0. S. & F. J). G.). 



A specimen from Orizaba, Southern Mexico, agrees accurately with Swainson's type 

 now before us ; another from Jalapa has the back more distinctly striped with wider 

 and darker streaks of blackish brown, the breast, too, is rather greyer. Specimens from 

 the Guatemala highlands (Duenas, &c.) are rather larger than the type (wing fully 



3 inches); but a male from the pine-ridge of Poctun, southward of Peten, diverges most 

 in having a very short wing (2-55 inches) and the mandible the same horny black as the 

 maxilla. We have only one example from the last-named locality, so that we are not 

 in a position to speak generally of the Hcemophila of that somewhat peculiar region, 

 one that belongs to some extent to the district of Yucatan rather than to Mexico 

 proper or Guatemala, 



Eoemophila rufescens was described by Swainson from a specimen obtained by 



