254 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
XIPHORHYNCHUS ERYTHROPYGIUS (Sclater). 
SPOTTED WOODHEWER. 
Adults (sexes alike). —Pileum and hindneck deep olive, the feathers 
margined, more or less distinctly, with dusky and with narrow 
mesial streaks of pale buffy; back and scapulars olive-brown (nearly 
raw-umber), the feathers (at least the more anterior ones) marked 
with a mesial guttate or broadly fusiform streak of pale buff; rump 
and upper tail-coverts deep cinnamon-rufous, the tail similar but 
slightly darker (chestnut); wing-coverts concolor with back but 
immaculate; secondaries chestnut, the primaries also mostly chestnut 
but outer webs edged with light olive-brown (those of the several 
more outer ones wholly or mostly of the latter color) and with ter- 
minal portion deep grayish brown or dusky; lores nearly uniform 
dusky; an indistinct superciliary stripe (obsolete anterior to eye) of 
pale yellowish buff, broken by dusky olive margins or edges to the 
feathers; auricular region streaked with dusky olive and light yellow- 
ish buff; suborbital and malar regions light yellowish buff, the 
feathers margined with dusky; chin and throat buff, or yellowish 
buff, the latter (sometimes chin also) with feathers narrowly tipped 
with olive; rest of under parts light olive or buffy olive, each feather 
with a large central guttate spot of light buff or yellowish buff, these 
markings smaller (sometimes obsolete) on flanks; shorter under tail- 
coverts light buff mesially broadly edged with light buffy brown, the 
longer ones nearly uniform cinnamon to cinnamon-rufous; under 
wing-coverts buff (more or less deep,) the inner webs of remiges 
cinnamon-rufous, with terminal portion of longer primaries grayish 
brown or dusky, that of outermost primary mostly of the latter 
color; maxilla blackish or dusky brown to nearly black, with a 
tomial stripe of pale dull yellowish or whitish; mandible pale dull 
yellowish or whitish (in dried skins); legs and feet horn color or 
dusky (in dried skins). 
Adult male—Length (skins), 204-241 (227); wing, 109.5-125 
(119.5); tail, 91-102 (96); culmen, 31.5-37.5 (34.3); tarsus, 23-24 
(23.5); middle toe, 17.5-18.5 (18).% 
Adult female.—Length (skin), 215; wing, 108; tail, 91.5; culmen, 
30.5; tarsus, 21.5; middle toe, 17.° 
Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cérdova; Jalapa; 
Coatepec; Huatusco; Jico; Cofre de Perote), Oaxaca, Guerrero 
(Chilpancingo; Omilteme) and Chiapas (Tumbala), and through 
Guatemala (Choctim; Cobén; Chiséc; Rio de la Pasién; El Rincén, 
San Marcos; Las Nubes, Cerro Zunil) to Honduras (Yaruca). 
a Three specimens, from Vera Cruz and Guerrero. 
b One specimen, from Chiapas. An adult female from Yaruca, Honduras, meas- 
ures as follows: Length (skin), 195; wing, 104; tail, 82.5; culmen, 30.5; tarsus, 22; 
middle toe, 18. 
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