258 TANAGRIDZ. 
Atro-cerulea, capite et gutture paulo purpurascentioribus ; fronte anguste nigra, pilei dimidio antico usque ad 
oculorum extremum et abdomine toto cum crisso luteis, alis subtus albis; cauda nigra rectricibus duabus 
utrinque externis macula magna (apicem haud attingente), in pogonio interno alba; rostro et pedibus 
obscure plumbeis. Long. tota 4:0, ale 2-1, caude 1-35, rostri a rictu 0-4, tarsi 0°55. 
@ supra olivascens, pileo postico et dorso antico cinereo tinctis, subtus sordide flavicans, abdomine medio 
clariore. (Descr. maris et femine ex Retalhuleu, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) , 
Hab. Mexico, Mazatlan (Bischoff'*), Sierra Madre (Xantus §), Orizaba (Sallé®, Botteri*), 
hot region of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast !°), Tierra Caliente of the Atlantic side (de 
Strange), Barrio and Tehuantepec city (Sumichrast ®), Merida in Yucatan (Schott’, 
Gaumer); British Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Guatemala‘, Retalhuleu, 
Escuintla, Savana Grande, Duefias, Calderas (0. 8S. & F. D. G.), Coban (Sarg) ; 
Nicaragua, Realejo (A. Lesson1); Costa Rica, San José (Hoffmann "), San Juan 
(v. Frantzius ®). 
Euphonia affinis is the Central-American representative of the widely-ranging South- 
American E. chlorotica, and differs from that bird in the yellow of the underparts 
being of a somewhat paler tint, and in the colour of the back being devoid of the purple 
hue present in the latter bird. 
It was first described by Lesson from specimens said to have been obtained at Realejo 
in Nicaragua}, whence it has since been traced northwards as far as Mazatlan in 
Mexico, and southwards to Costa Rica. We should say, however, that it is more 
abundantly distributed over the districts of Mexico and Guatemala which border the 
Pacific Ocean than elsewhere, though not confined in its range to these parts. In 
altitude E. affinis is found at very varied elevations, for in September 1862 we met with 
it in abundance at Retalhuleu, at an elevation of about 800 feet, and in the same 
month in 1873 Salvin shot specimens at Calderas in the Volcan de Fuego, at an 
elevation of 7300 feet above the sea. At Duefas it was observed at various times 
between the months of July and November. Its presence in any locality is doubtless 
determined by the ripeness of some favourite fruit, such a one at Duefias being a 
species of Ficus, bearing a small sweet fruit much loved by Huphonia affinis. One of 
these trees near Duefias, frequently visited by us during its time of fruit, was always 
full of these birds, which remained all day feasting without ceasing. 
In Northern Yucatan this Huphonia is common, and we have a single specimen from 
the vicinity of Belize. In Vera Paz, however, it seems by no means abundant, as we 
have no specimens ourselves from there. 
In Costa Rica, too, it would appear to be comparatively rare, as no examples have 
reached us, and the only ones on record are those of Drs. Hoffmann and v. Frantzius ". 
3. Euphonia minuta. 
a minuta, Cab. in Schomb. Reise n. Guiana, iil. p. 671'; Sel. P. Z.S. 1856, p. 274°; Ibis, 
1873, p. 873°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1860, p. 275*; P. Z. 8. 1879, p. 498°; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. 
N.Y. vii. p. 332°; Salv. P. Z.S. 1870, p. 1867; Cat. Strickl. Coll. p.180%; Pelz. Orn. Bras. 
p- 208°. 
