BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 45 
Thamnophilus doliatus mexicanus (not of Allen) Coarman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., 
viii, 1896, 284 (Chichen-Itza, Yucatan; song).—Corz, Bull. Mus. Comp. 
Zool., 1, 1906, 131 (Chichen-Itza). 
Thamnophilus doliatus yucatanensis Ripaway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxi, Oct. 
20, 1908, 193 (Tem4x, Yucatan; coll. U.S. Nat. Mus.). 
[Thamnophilus] doliatus ScLateR and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 70, part.— 
Saarpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 15, part. 
THAMNOPHILUS MULTISTRIATUS Lafresnaye. 
BARRED-CRESTED ANTSHRIKE. 
Adult male.—Above black, rather narrowly barred with white, the 
bars on tips of feathers of pileum and hindneck sometimes partaking 
of the form of spots (a pair on tip of each feather, separated by a rather 
broad median space of black) ; sides of head, chin, and throat streaked 
with black and white, the streaks broadest on throat, narrower and 
confused or intermixed with bars on auricular and suborbital regions; 
under parts of body and under tail-coverts conspicuously barred with 
black and white, the bars of the two colors approximately equal in 
width, or the white ones wider, at least on the abdomen; maxilla 
brownish black, the tomium pale horn color (bluish gray in life?) ; 
mandible light horn color, passing into pale yellowish terminally 
(bluish gray in life?); legs and feet dusky (bluish gray in life?); 
length (skins), 148-156 (153); wing, 70-75 (72.5); tail, 61-66.5 
(63.7); culmen, 18-20 (18.4); tarsus, 22.5-25 (23.9); middle toe, 
14.5-16.5 (15.1).¢ 
Adult female—Above plain bright cinnamon-rufous or rufous- 
chestnut, somewhat interrupted on hindneck, the back and rump 
sometimes duller or more tawny and with faint indications of darker 
bars; sides of head and neck (including sides of hindneck), together 
with chin and throat, conspicuously streaked with black and white; 
rest of under parts white, passing into pale tawny brown or fulvous on 
flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts, everywhere broadly barred 
with black, the bars much less distinct on flanks; bill, etc., as in adult 
male; length (skins), 141-151 (146); wing, 72-72.5 (72.2); tail, 
64-67 (65.5); culmen, 17-18.5 (17.7); tarsus, 24; middle toe, 
15-15.5 (15.2)? 
Immature male.—Similar to the adult male, but plumage suffused, 
more or less, with pale fulvous or brownish buff. 
Young (male ?).—Similar in general coloration to the adult female 
but pileum mostly black, scapulars, interscapulars, and wing-coverts 
distinctly barred with dull black, and rump indistinctly barred with 
dusky; black bars on under parts rather narrow, the ground color 
very pale buff or buffy white. 
@ Seven specimens. 6 Two specimens. 
