EUPHONIA. 257 
Rica, San José (v. Frantzius"), Volcan de Irazu (Areé, fogers), Turrialba (Arcé) ; 
Panama, Calovevora (Arcé 15). 
This pretty species is the only Mexican and Central-American representative of a 
group of six blue-headed Euphonie, which are spread over a large portion of South 
America and are found in some of the West-Indian islands. The best known of 
these is Huphonia nigricollis, which ranges from Colombia to Paraguay. 
Euphonia elegantissima was described by Bonaparte in 1837, from Mexican spe- 
cimens supplied him by the Messrs. Paris. Examples had, however, been previously 
sent by Deppe from Jalapa in Mexico to the Berlin Museum, and received from 
Lichtenstein the name of Huphone tibicen, but, unfortunately, no description what- 
ever was given of them. Lesson also gave it the name of L. cwlestis, describing speci- 
mens of both sexes from Mexico 1’, 
It is now a well-known species in all the mountainous districts between Central 
Mexico and the State of Panama. According to our experience, it is never found at 
any great distance from the higher ranges in which it chiefly resides. Sumichrast 
speaks of having found it at all heights up to 6500 feet in the mountains of Orizaba. 
He says that it is more of a vagrant than other Euphonie, wandering in search of fruits, 
upon which it feeds. In Guatemala we observed it as high as 8000 feet in the ridge 
above the hacienda of Calderas, on the slopes of the Volcan de Fuego. We also 
observed it as low as Cuyotenango, in the Pacific coast-region, some 1500 feet above 
the sea, and at Choctum, in Vera Paz, of not more than 1200 feet elevation. Its habits, 
like those of its congeners, are to remain all day in some tree the fruit of which is 
ripe, on which it feeds incessantly. 
The eggs of this species taken by M. Boucard at Juquila’ are described as rounded 
in shape, of a creamy white, with a few scattered spots and blotches, principally at the 
larger end, of two shades of brown. 
Euphonia elegantissima is retained in the lists of North-American birds on the strength 
of Giraud having included it as one of his sixteen birds of Texas. Its range so far 
north, however, requires confirmation. We have no positive tidings of it beyond 
Guanajuato, where Dr. Dugés observed it. 
B. Pileus plus minusve luteus. 
a. Crissum aut lutewm aut album. 
a’. Subtus gula ceruleo-nigra. 
2. Huphonia affinis. 
Tanagra (Euphonia) affinis, Less. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 1757. 
Euphonia affinis, Scl. P. Z. 8. 1856, pp. 274°, 303°; Scl. & Saly. Ibis, 1859, p. 16+; 1860, p. 33°; 
Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. pp. 98°, 2007; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 273%; Buli. U.S. 
Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 18°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 550. 
Phonasca affinis, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 332”. 
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