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174 Adult female. — Length (skins), 104-120 (113); wing, 58-66 (61.2); tail, 43.5-48 (46); culmen, 11-14 (13.1); tarsus, 14-15 (14.1); middle toe, 11-13 (11.9). Eighteen specimens.

Specimens from British Honduras are more buffy (less olivaceous) below and more rufescent above than those from Costa Rica, etc., the latter being much more olivaceous (less brownish) below as well as above, than those from Mexico. Those from the Santa Marta district of Colombia are paler above, with middle rectrices cinnamomeous rather than rufescent, the under parts paler and grayer, wing shorter, and tail longer. The species almost certainly requires further subdivision. Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Córdova; Playa Vicente; Uvero; Buena Vista), Oaxaca, Tabasco (Teapa), and Yucatan (La Vega), and southward through Guatemala (Choctúm; sources of Rio de la Pasión), British Honduras (Orange Walk; Cayo; Toledo District; near Manatee Lagoon), Honduras (San Pedro; Montañas; Santa Ana; Rio Blanco; Rio Segóvia), Nicaragua (Castillo; Rio San Juan; San Emilis, Lake Nicaragua) and Costa Rica (Grécia; Angostura; San José; Tucurríqui; Guápiles; Carrillo; CoralliUo; Guayabál; Orosí; El Hogár; Guayabo; Jiménez; Pozo Azúl de Pirrís; Pozo del Pitál; Pozo del Rio Grande; Lagarto; Boruca; Paso Reál; El Generál; Tenório; Buenos Aires; El Pozo de Térraba; Pigres; Pacuare; Palmár; Bebedero; Cerro Santa Maria; Miravalles; La Vijágua; Bolsón), to Panamá (Santa Fé de Verágua; Calovévora; Bugaba; Bibalaz; Volcan de Chiriquí; Boquete; Divala; Panamá; Lion Hill).


 * Xenops mexicanus, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856 (pub. Jan. 26, 1857), 289 (Córdova, Vera Cruz, Mexico; coll. A. Sallé); 1859, 382 (Playa Vicente, Vera Cruz); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 159 (Oaxaca). — , Ibis, 1861, 353