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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.

Adult male. — Length (skins), 171-192 (185); wing, 84-95 (90.9); tail, 66.5-85.5 (73); culmen, 22.5-25.5 (24.1); tarsus, 22.5-25.5 (23.9); middle toe, 17.5-20 (19).^[1]

Adult female. — Length (skins), 176-193 (185); wing, 82.5-93 (88.1); tail, 66-80 (73.5); culmen, 22.5-25 (23.4); tarsus, 22-25 (22.7); middle toe, 16.5-19.5 (18.8).^[2]

Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Córdova; Playa Vicente; Omealca; Atoyác; Orizaba; Miradór; Buena Vista), Mexico (near City of Mexico)?, Oaxaca (mountains near Santo Domingo), and Tabasco (Teapa), and southward through Guatemala (Cobán; sources of Rio de la Pasión; Choctúm), British Honduras (Manatee Lagoon; near Soldier Creek; near Quamius Creek; Toledo District) and Honduras (Santa Ana; Yaruca) to eastern Nicaragua (Los Sábalos; Rio Escondido).

Anabates cervinigularis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856 (pub. Jan. 26, 1857), 288 (Córdova, Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. A. Sallé); 1859, 382 (Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 35 (Cobán, Guatemala).

Automolus cervinigularis Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 158 (Córdova); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 175 (City of Mexico); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xv, 1890, 91, part (Córdova; near City of Mexico; sources Rio de la Pasión, and Choctúm, Guatemala; Honduras). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 555 (tierra calienteof Vera Cruz); La Naturaleza, v, 1881, 247 (Omealca, Vera Cruz). — Boucard, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 1878, 37 (Guatemala). — Sanchez, Anal. Mus. Nac. Mex., i, 1877, 97 (Vera Cruz). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1891, 158, part (Atoyác, Vera Cruz; Chimalapa,

↑ Fifteen specimens.

↑ Seventeen specimens.

Locality.	Wing.	Tall.	Culmen.	Tarsus.	Middle toe.
males.
Nine adult males from southeastern Mexico	92.4	73	24.4	24.1	19.3
Four adult males from British Honduras	89.7	75.5	23.7	24	18.7
One adult male from Honduras	88.5	70	24	23	19
One adult male from Nicaragua	84.5	66.5	22.5	23	18
Ten adult males (A. c. hypophæus) from Costa Rica	91.7	72.9	23.6	23.2	18.8
females.
Nine adult females from southeastern Mexico	89.1	74.8	23.6	23.1	19.5
Four adult females from British Honduras	86.2	73.6	23.1	23.4	18
Three adult females from Honduras	89.5	73.7	22.8	23.7	18.5
One adult female from Nicaragua	82.5	66	23.5	23	16.5
Ten adult females (A. c. hypophæus) from Costa Rica	85.3	69.6	22.8	23.3	18

Mexican specimens average decidedly deeper in color than others, especially the buff of superciliary stripe, throat, etc., and brown of pileum, the latter almost sooty in its darkness. Guatemalan examples have the back, etc., more rufescent or castaneous, those from Honduras, British Honduras, and Nicaragua more olivaceous than Mexican specimens. The series examined is, however, inadequate.

[1] Fifteen specimens.

[2] Seventeen specimens.

Locality. Wing. Tall. Culmen. Tarsus. Middle
toe.

males.

Nine adult males from southeastern Mexico 92.4 73 24.4 24.1 19.3

Four adult males from British Honduras 89.7 75.5 23.7 24 18.7

One adult male from Honduras 88.5 70 24 23 19

One adult male from Nicaragua 84.5 66.5 22.5 23 18

Ten adult males (A. c. hypophæus) from Costa Rica 91.7 72.9 23.6 23.2 18.8

females.

Nine adult females from southeastern Mexico 89.1 74.8 23.6 23.1 19.5

Four adult females from British Honduras 86.2 73.6 23.1 23.4 18

Three adult females from Honduras 89.5 73.7 22.8 23.7 18.5

One adult female from Nicaragua 82.5 66 23.5 23 16.5

Ten adult females (A. c. hypophæus) from Costa Rica 85.3 69.6 22.8 23.3 18

Mexican specimens average decidedly deeper in color than others, especially the buff of superciliary stripe, throat, etc., and brown of pileum, the latter almost sooty in its darkness. Guatemalan examples have the back, etc., more rufescent or castaneous, those from Honduras, British Honduras, and Nicaragua more olivaceous than Mexican specimens. The series examined is, however, inadequate.

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