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Rh : Thamnophilus doliatus mexicanus (not of Allen), Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., viii, 1896, 284 (Chichen-Itza, Yucatan; song). —, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1, 1906, 131 (Chichen-Itza).
 * Thamnophilus doliatus yucatanensis, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxi, Oct. 20, 1908, 193 (Temáx, Yucatan; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).
 * [Thamnophilus] doliatus and, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 70, part. — , Hand-list, iii, 1901, 15, part.

THAMNOPHILUS MULTISTRIATUS Lafresnaye.

Adult male. — Above black, rather narrowly barred with white, the bars on tips of feathers of pileum and hindneck sometimes partaking of the form of spots (a pair on tip of each feather, separated by a rather broad median space of black); sides of head, chin, and throat streaked with black and white, the streaks broadest on throat, narrower and confused or intermixed with bars on auricular and suborbital regions; under parts of body and under tail-coverts conspicuously barred with black and white, the bars of the two colors approximately equal in width, or the white ones wider, at least on the abdomen; maxilla brownish black, the tomium pale horn color (bluish gray in life ?); mandible light horn color, passing into pale yellowish terminally (bluish gray in life ?); legs and feet dusky (bluish gray in life ?); length (skins), 148-156 (153); wing, 70-75 (72.5); tail, 61-66.5 (63.7); culmen, 18-20 (18.4); tarsus, 22.5-25 (23.9); middle toe, 14.5-16.5 (15.1).

Adult female. — Above plain bright cinnamon-rufous or rufous- chestnut, somewhat interrupted on hindneck, the back and rump sometimes duller or more tawny and with faint indications of darker bars; sides of head and neck (including sides of hindneck), together with chin and throat, conspicuously streaked with black and white; rest of under parts white, passing into pale tawny brown or fulvous on flanks, thighs, and under tail-coverts, everywhere broadly barred with black, the bars much less distinct on flanks; bill, etc., as in adult male; length (skins), 141-151 (146); wing, 72-72.5 (72.2); tail, 64-67 (65.5); culmen, 17-18.5 (17.7); tarsus, 24; middle toe, 15-15.5 (15.2).

Immature male. — Similar to the adult male, but plumage suffused, more or less, with pale fulvous or brownish buff.

Young (male ?). — Similar in general coloration to the adult female but pileum mostly black, scapulars, interscapulars, and wing-coverts distinctly barred with dull black, and rump indistinctly barred with dusky; black bars on under parts rather narrow, the ground color very pale buff or buffy white.