. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 116 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [part I. li^ :* 4 i' . Ifl B. Back and top of head nearly uniform grayish-brown ; sides of head whitish, varied with light-brown. Size very small pusilla. Heterorhina prostlieleuca. Scytalopus prostheleucus, Sclater, P, Z, S. 1856,290 (Cordova).â Cypho- rinus pmatheleucus, Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1858, 64, 96 ; 1,859, 363, 372 (Oaxaca).âIb. Catal. 1861, 20, no. 125.âSalvin, Ibis, II, 18G0, 272 (Guatemala). (28,042.) Above brown, passing into deeper rufoua to the upper cov
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 116 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [part I. li^ :* 4 i' . Ifl B. Back and top of head nearly uniform grayish-brown ; sides of head whitish, varied with light-brown. Size very small pusilla. Heterorhina prostlieleuca. Scytalopus prostheleucus, Sclater, P, Z, S. 1856,290 (Cordova).â Cypho- rinus pmatheleucus, Sclatek, P. Z. S. 1858, 64, 96 ; 1,859, 363, 372 (Oaxaca).âIb. Catal. 1861, 20, no. 125.âSalvin, Ibis, II, 18G0, 272 (Guatemala). (28,042.) Above brown, passing into deeper rufoua to the upper coverts, and into reddish olivaceous on top of head. Chin and throat pure white, passing into a duller white behind ; the sides of breast plumbeous ; sides of belly, with the crissum, rufous brown like the rump. A distinct white line from bill over eye to nape, bordered above by an obscure black band. All the feathers of side of head and neck are black, with a rounded white spot near the end; thera is quite a distinct black line from base of lower jaw margining chin and throat; the lores are black. The tail feathers and ex- terior webs of secondary quills are rufous, with narrow black bars (these bars narrower than the interspaces). The primaries black, with brownish-gray spots along their outer edges (outermost edged continuously \«ith gray). The greater and middle wing coverts are blackish, many of them with a small white spot near their tips. The bill is black ; legs brown. Total length, ; wing, ; tail, ; exposed portion of 1st primary, .85, of 2d, , of longest (measured from exposed base of 1st primary), ; length of bill from forehead, .65, from nostril, .44, along gape, .80 ; tarsus, .84; middle toe and claw, .70; hind toe and claw, .61; claw alone, .27. In No. 28,042, one of the tail feathers is entirely white, and there is a white feather on the seapulars; this, however, is evidently abnormal. Other specimens, from Mexico and Guatemala, are simila
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