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in the Gineta Mountains, in the State of Chiapas, Sumichrast again found it in 
January 1869 3°. 
In Guatemala Chlorophonia occipitalis is a very local bird, as we never met with it 
except in the neighbourhood of Coban in Vera Paz, and in the mountains to the north- 
ward of that town. Coban lies at an elevation of about 4300 feet above the sea; and 
in the hills, on which a small patch of virgin forest may still be seen, this bird is 
met with in some numbers, not a few being caught and sold as cage-birds all over the 
republic of Guatemala. It is a bird easily tamed, and eats fruit, especially plaintains, 
ravenously. 
It was at one time supposed that the Guatemalan bird might be different from the 
Mexican, and be the lost Chlorophonia cyanodorsalis of Dubois; but this point was 
settled by the late Sir W. Jardine?. After comparing skins from the two countries, we 
are satisfied that all belong to C. occipitalis. 
As already stated, the female of C. occipitalis was figured by DuBus!. A portrait of 
the male is to be found in Cassin’s account of the birds obtained during Giilliss’s 
Astronomical Expedition’. Both sexes were again figured by Sclater and Salvin in 
‘ Exotic Ornithology’ 4. 
2. Chlorophonia callophrys. 
Triglyphidia callophrys, Cab. J. £. Orn. 1860, p. 3311. 
Acrocompsa callophrys, Cab. J. £. Orn. 1861, p. 88°. 
Chlorophonia callophrys, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 98°; Scl. & Salv. Ex. Orn. p. 135, t. 68‘; 
v. Frantzius, J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 297°; Salv. P. Z. S. 1870, p. 185°; Boucard, P. Z. 8. 1878, 
p. 547, 
3. C. occipitali similis sed fronte cum superciliis elongatis aureo-flavis, et macula occipitali ceerulea majore 
et lilacino certa luce tincta distinguendus. 
Q quoque colore macule occipitalis differt. (Descr. maris et femine ex Irazu, Costa Rica. Mus: nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica (Hoffmann 1), Rancho Redondo (Carmiol®), San José (v. Frantzius 3), 
Burris (Zeledon*), Cervantes and Candelaria (v. Frantzius®), Irazu (Rogers), 
Navarro (Boucard"); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui °, Chitra, Cordillera del Chucu &, 
Calovevora °®, Calobre (Arcé). 
The collection made in Costa Rica by Dr. Hoffmann, and sent to the Berlin Museum, 
contained the first specimen of this bird. This was described by Dr. Cabanis in bis 
well-known paper published in 18601. ‘In the following year he described a young 
bird of the same species sent by Dr. von Frantzius 2, and then took the opportunity of 
separating generically the three large Central-American species of Chlorophonia under 
the title of Acrocompsa. Since then specimens have reached most of our Museums 
from Costa Rica. About the year 1868 our collector, Enrique Arcé, discovered the 
bird at Calovevora, in the State of Panama; and in several subsequent collections 
forwarded by him to us we found a good series of specimens, all obtained between 
