wing-feathers darker; tail dull slate-black or blackish slate, the three outer rectrices (on each side) with an apical or subapical area of dull white, this most developed on inner web of two outermost, which have a narrow longitudinal area of dusky on terminal or subterminal portion of outer web; sides of head and neck plain cinnamon or russet, broken by an indistinct postocular streak of olive-brownish; chin and throat white, more or less broken by partly exposed dusky basal portion of feathers; rest of under parts plain buff, or pinkish buff, deepest (sometimes nearly ochraceous-buff) laterally, paler medially (sometimes nearly white on abdomen); thighs mostly dusky olive-gray; under wing-coverts pale cream buff or buffy white; inner webs of remiges edged with white or buffy white; maxilla horn brown (sometimes darker terminally), mandible much paler (pale bluish gray to flesh color in life); iris brown; legs and feet horn color (bluish gray or grayish blue in life).
Adult male. — Length (skins), 109-127 (120); wing, 46-54.5 (51.2); tail, 36.5-43.5 (40.9); culmen, 22-26 (24); tarsus, 20-21.5 (20.9); middle toe, 10.5-12 (11.1).[1]
Adult female. — Length (skins), 105-119 (113); wing, 45.5-53 (49.2); tail, 36-41 (38.6); culmen, 20-24.5 (23.1); tarsus, 20-22 (21.3); middle toe, 11-11.5 (11.2).[2] </ref>
Young. — Essentially like adults, but back, rump, etc., soft grayish brown (nearly concolor with pileum and hindneck), and under parts pale grayish brown, approaching dull buffy whitish on throat and abdomen.
Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Playa Vicente; Buena
Vista; San Andrés Tuxtla), Oaxaca (mountains near Santo Domingo),
- ↑ Eighteen specimens.
- ↑ Sixteen specimens.
Locality. Wing. Tail. Culmen. Tarsus. Middle
toe.males. Two adult males from southern Mexico 50 40 22 21.2 10.7 Two adult males from Chiapas and Guatemala 50.7 43 24.5 20.7 11.2 One adult male from Honduras 54 40 26 21 11 One adult male from British Honduras 46 42 24 21 10.5 Ten adult males from Nicaragua (4) and Costa Rica (6) 51.7 41 24 20.9 11.3 Two adult males from Panamá (line of railway) 51.5 39.2 23.2 20.7 10.7 Four adult males (R. r. sanctæ-martæ) from Colombia 51.6 39.2 23.2 20.7 10.7 females. Two adult females from southern Mexico (Vera Cruz). 48.2 39.2 24 21 11 One adult female from Chiapas 49 37.5 23 22 11.5 Two adult females from British Honduras 47.5 39.5 22.5 21 11 Ten adult females from Nicaragua (3) and Costa Rica (7) 49.4 38.4 23.1 20.8 11.2 One adult female from Panamá (Verágua) 51.5 39 - 22 11 One adult female (R. r. sanctæ-martæ) from Colombia 47 38 24.5 22 12
