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Rh darker on pileum, and passing into chestnut on lower rump and upper tail-coverts; tail darker sepia brown, passing into blackish brown terminally; chin and throat dull tawny-rufous or rufous-tawny (the chin sometimes decidedly paler, rarely dull whitish), passing into deeper tawny-rufous or tawny-chestnut on chest; rest of under parts plam brown (nearest mummy brown), sometimes tinged with more rufescent brown, especially on breast and under tail-coverts; under, wing-coverts mixed tawny and grayish brown; maxilla dusky horn color or blackish, mandible pale yellowish or dull whitish (in dried skins), dusky or horn colored terminally and along tomia; iris hazel; legs and feet horn color or dusky (in dried skins).

Young. — Similar to adults, but colors rather duller, especially on throat and chest, which are dull tawny or tawny-brown, some of the feathers with very indistinct shaft-streaks of paler and (sometimes) with narrow and indistinct terminal margins of duller brown or dusky.

Adult male. — Length (skins), 142-163 (154); wing, 78-83 (80.5); tail, 51-62 (56.2); culmen, 23-27 (24.7) ; tarsus, 20-22 (21.2); middle toe, 16-17.5 (17).

Adult female. — Length (skin), 158; wing, 80; tail, 56.5; culmen, 24; tarsus, 20.5; middle toe, 17.5.

Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Córdova; Potrero, near Córdova; Jico; Jalapa; Orizaba), and Mexico (City of Mexico), Guatemala (Cobán; Raxché; Savana Grande; Volcán de Agua), Honduras (Volcán de Puca, Department of Copán), Costa Rica (Cariblanco de Sarapiquí), Panamá (Lion Hill; Panamá; Calovévora; Cordillera de Tolé; Santiago de Veragua) and southward through Colombia (Bogotá; Frontino) and Ecuadór (Intaj; Sarayacu) to Peru (Yurimaguas ; Chyavetas) and lower Amazon (Rio Capím).


 * (?) "Sclerurus ruficollis, Birds Brazil, ["1834-41"], pl. 79."
 * Sclerurus mexicanus, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856 (pub. Jan. 26, 1857), 290 (Córdova, Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater); 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 1864, 175 (City of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 145, pl. 12