BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 237 
XIPHOCOLAPTES EMIGRANS EMIGRANS Sclater and Salvin. 
GUATEMALA WOODHEWER. 
Adults (sexes alike).—Pileum and hindneck sepia brown to nearly 
clove brown narrowly streaked with pale buff; back, scapulars, and 
wing-coverts plain brown (nearly raw-umber or between raw-umber 
and light olive), the upper back sometimes with narrow shaft-streaks 
of buffy; rump and upper tail-coverts plain cinnamon-rufous; tail 
chestnut, the shafts of middle rectrices darker; remiges lighter chest- 
nut, or rufous-chestnut, the primaries and distal secondaries edged 
(more or less broadly) with brown, the inner webs of longer and 
outer primaries grayish brown terminally; superciliary region dark 
brown, rather broadly streaked with pale dull buff or buffy whitish; 
lores pale grayish buffy or dull brownish whitish; suborbital region 
dull buffy whitish, the feathers narrowly edged with dark brown; 
upper portion of auricular region narrowly streaked with dull whitish 
or pale dull buffy on a dark brown or sepia ground, the lower por- 
tion dull whitish or pale dull buffy narrowly streaked with dark 
brown; malar region dark brown streaked (more or less narrowly) 
with dull whitish or pale dull buffy; chin and upper throat dull 
brownish white or pale brownish buffy, the latter faintly streaked 
(broadly) with pale brownish; rest of under parts raw-umber brown 
(paler and more fulvescent than back, etc.), more or less tinged with 
tawny posteriorly (especially on flanks and under tail-coverts), the 
lower throat, chest, and breast (sometimes abdomen and sides also), 
with narrow shaft-streaks of pale brownish buffy or dull buffy whitish, 
the abdomen (more or less distinctly and extensively) usually barred 
with dusky and buffy whitish or dull pale buffy; under wing-coverts 
ochraceous or ochraceous-buff, barred with black or dusky; inner 
webs of remiges cinnamon-rufous, the terminal portion of outer 
primaries (extensively) grayish brown; bill light horn color, more 
dusky basally; feet dusky or horn color (in dried skins). 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 310-340 (318); wing, 135-140 (137.5); 
tail, 118-123 (120.7); culmen, 44-50 (46.9); tarsus, 31-31.5 (31.4); 
middle toe, 25-27 (25.7).% 
Adult female—Length (skins), 290-324 (313); wing, 131-142 
(134.7); tail, 112-131.5 (120.1); culmen, 45-51 (48.7); tarsus, 31-32 
(31.5); middle toe, 25-28 (26.3).® 
@ Four specimens, from Chiapas. b Six specimens. 
Locality. Wing. | Tail. | Cth | Tarsus] Middle 
FEMALES, 
Four adult females from Chiapas (San Crist6bal).......--.----- 135.2} 123 47.9 31.2 26 
One adult female from Guatemala (Gualdn)...........-.-----. 131.5) 112 49.5 32 28 
One adult female from Nicaragua (San Rafaél del Norte)....... 136 116.5 51 32 26 
