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208 brown, the primary-coverts dusky terminally and primaries passing into grayish brown or dusky at tips; tail clear chestnut; broad orbital ring and supra-auricular stripe buff or ochraceous-buff; lores mostly dusky or dark grayish, paler and more buffy (sometimes distinctly buffy) along upper margin; auricular region dusky, more or less broadly streaked with paler (except along upper portion) and with very narrow shaft-streaks of buffy, this dusky auricular area passing, in a more or less well-defined stripe, to the anterior portion of the malar region; chin and throat, together with middle and posterior portions of malar region, pale yellowish buff or cream-buff, the feathers of lower throat narrowly margined, more or less distinctly, with dusky; rest of under parts plain light buffy brown (sometimes approaching wood brown but more yellowish or ciimamomeous), passing into darker brown (between raw-umber and isabella color) on flanks, the under tail-coverts more rufescent; under wing-coverts and broad edgings to inner webs of remiges ochraceous-buff; maxilla dusky horn color, paler toward tomium; mandible paler, whitish on gonys (broadly); iris brown; legs and feet horn color (in dried skins).

Adult male. — Length (skins), 151-167 (160); wing, 78.5-91 (89.8); tail, 64-75 (70.4); culmen, 15.5-17.5 (16.5); tarsus, 18-20 (19.1); middle toe, 14-16 (15.1).

Adult female. — Length (skins), 146-160 (154); wing, 76-88.5 (81.2); tail, 63-72 (65.8); culmen, 14.5-17.5 (16.1); tarsus, 17.5-19.5 (18.7); middle toe, 14.5-16 (15).

Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Córdova; Jalapa; Uvero; Omealca; Motzorongo), Guerrero (Omilteme), Oaxaca (Choapám; Totóntepec), and Chiapas (Tumbalá; Chicharros), Guatemala (Barranca Honda; Savana Grande; Choctúm), Costa Rica (San Marcos;