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ashy on the centre of the breast and abdomen; under tail-coverts sandy-brown, with whitish shaft- 
lines and pale edges to the ends of the feathers; chin and fore part of cheeks ashy whitish, with a 
tolerably distinct moustachial line of dusky brown, the throat also having a few triangular spots 
of the same colour; under wing-coverts and axillaries dull orange-rufous ; quill-lining ashy. Total 
length 8:5 inches, culmen 0:75, wing 4:95, tail 3:15, tarsus 1:1. 
Young. Much browner than the adults, with the wings and tail blackish; the upper surface 
mottled with black margins and mesial streaks of sandy buff on the feathers; under surface of 
body brown, the feathers broadly edged with black, before which is a sub-terminal mark of golden 
buff, more distinct on the fore-neck and chest; the throat golden-buff with a few black spots. 
Another nestling bird from the Sierra de las Minas is much more orange-rufous underneath, 
and has distinct triangular spots of golden-buff at the end of the wing-coverts, the inner secondaries 
being also narrowly tipped with the same colour. 
The description of the male bird has been taken from a skin from Totontepec in the Salvin- 
Godman Collection, and the young birds are also described from Guatemalan examples in the same 
collection. The female described is from Jalapa and is in the Sclater Collection. The figure of the 
hen bird has been drawn from the same specimen, while that of the male has been taken from a 
skin from Vera Paz in the Seebohm Collection. [R. B. S.] 
