grayish brown or dusky terminally; lores plain gray or dusky; suborbital, auricular, and malar regions brownish buff or clay color narrowly barred with blackish; chin and upper tin-oat dull grayish, the latter indistinctly barred with darker; rest of under parts brownish buff or light buffy cinnamon, everywhere barred with black or dusky, the bars more lunulate or crescentic on foreneck and chest, narrower and less blackish on posterior parts; under wing-coverts light ochraceous or ochraceous-buff, narrowly and irregularly barred with black; inner webs of remiges light cinnamon-rufous, the outer primaries passing into grayish brown terminally; bill dusky horn color, sometimes nearly black terminally, paler brown basally, especially on mandible; iris brown; legs and feet horn color or dusky (in dried skins).
Young. — Similar to adults, but bars on under parts less sharply defined, especially on posterior portions, the under tail-coverts more rufescent.
Adult male. — Length (skins), 248-289 (260); wing, 119-134 (127.2); tail, 105-121.5 (112.9); culmen, 35-44 (37.9); tarsus, 26-30 (27.9); middle toe, 19-23.5 (21.2).[1]
Adult female. — Length (skins), 250-276 (261); wing, 120.5-136 (127); tail, 105-122.5 (115.3); culmen, 35-38 (37); tarsus, 27-29.5 (28); middle toe, 20-23.5 (21.3).[2]
Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Pasa Nueva) and Campeche (Apazote), and southward through Guatemala (Vera Paz),
British Honduras (Belize; Orange Walk; Toledo District; near Manatee
- ↑ Twenty-one specimens.
- ↑ Twenty specimens.
Locality. Wing. Tall. Culmen. Tarsus. Middle
toe.males. Two adult males from eastern Panamá 127 105.7 41.7 28.7 22.7 Two adult males from western Panamá 132 117.2 39.2 28.5 21.2 Ten adult males from eastern Costa Rica 128.3 113.6 37.5 28.4 21.6 One adult male from eastern Nicaragua 129 114.5 38 26.5 20.5 Two adult males from Honduras 119.2 113.2 37.7 27.2 21 Two adult males from British Honduras 122.2 113.7 37 27.2 20.7 Two adult males from Campeche 123.7 110 35 26 19 females. One adult female from eastern Panamá 132.5 105.5 37.5 28 22 One adult female from western Panamá 128 121 36.5 28 21.5 Ten adult females from eastern Costa Rica 127.6 116.2 37.1 28.8 21.4 One adult female from western Nicaragua 136 120 37.5 29.5 21 One adult female from southern Honduras 126 - 37 29.5 22.5 Three adult females from British Honduras 126.2 117.8 37.3 27.5 20.8 One adult female from Campeche 123 109 37 27 20 Two adult females from Vera Cruz 122.7 115.2 37.5 28.5 21
