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86 wing-feathers darker; tail dull slate-black or blackish slate, the three outer rectrices (on each side) with an apical or subapical area of dull white, this most developed on inner web of two outermost, which have a narrow longitudinal area of dusky on terminal or subterminal portion of outer web; sides of head and neck plain cinnamon or russet, broken by an indistinct postocular streak of olive-brownish; chin and throat white, more or less broken by partly exposed dusky basal portion of feathers; rest of under parts plain buff, or pinkish buff, deepest (sometimes nearly ochraceous-buff) laterally, paler medially (sometimes nearly white on abdomen); thighs mostly dusky olive-gray; under wing-coverts pale cream buff or buffy white; inner webs of remiges edged with white or buffy white; maxilla horn brown (sometimes darker terminally), mandible much paler (pale bluish gray to flesh color in life); iris brown; legs and feet horn color (bluish gray or grayish blue in life).

Adult male. — Length (skins), 109-127 (120); wing, 46-54.5 (51.2); tail, 36.5-43.5 (40.9); culmen, 22-26 (24); tarsus, 20-21.5 (20.9); middle toe, 10.5-12 (11.1). Adult female. — Length (skins), 105-119 (113); wing, 45.5-53 (49.2); tail, 36-41 (38.6); culmen, 20-24.5 (23.1); tarsus, 20-22 (21.3); middle toe, 11-11.5 (11.2). Young. — Essentially like adults, but back, rump, etc., soft grayish brown (nearly concolor with pileum and hindneck), and under parts pale grayish brown, approaching dull buffy whitish on throat and abdomen.

Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Playa Vicente; Buena Vista; San Andrés Tuxtla), Oaxaca (mountains near Santo Domingo),