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M‘Leannan did not meet with it on the Panama Railway, but we have a pair shot by 
Mr. Hughes at Paraiso Station. At Chepo Arcé only obtained us a single female 
specimen, but we have no hesitation in referring it to this species. 
b'. Subtus omnino lutea. 
6. Kuphonia hirundinacea. 
Euphonia hirundinacea, Bp. P. Z. S. 1887, p. 117"; Scl. P. Z. S. 1854, p. 98 (partim) * ; 
1856, pp. 278 *, 803°; 1859, pp. 364°, 378°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 16"; P. Z.S. 1870, 
p. 836°; Lawr. Aun. Lyc. N.Y. ix. p. 98°; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 18°; Sumi- 
chrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 550”; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 180”. 
Phonasca hirundinacea, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 334; 1861, p. 91™. 
Supra nitens ceeruleo-nigra, loris et capitis lateribus dorso conéoloribus ; fronte et pileo ad oculorum medium et 
corpore subtus a mento usque ad crissum luteis ; cauda nigra, rectricibus duabus utrinque externis macula 
magna in pogonio interno et apicem attingente albis ; rostro nigro; pedibus plumbeis. Long. tota 4:0, ale 
2°5, caudee 1°45, rostri a rictu 0°45, tarsi 0°6. (Descr. maris ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
? supra olivacea, alis et cauda fusco-nigris extus olivaceo marginatis; subtus griseo-albida, abdomine medio 
pallidiore, hypochondriis olivaceo-flavis. (Descr. femine ex Vera Paz. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Cordova (Sallé*), Jalapa (de Oca *), Playa Vicente (Boucard °), hot region 
of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast “), Tierra caliente of Atlantic side (le Strange), Guichi- 
covi (Sumichrast 4), Northern Yucatan (Gaumer); British Honpuras, Belize 
(Blancaneux), Corosal (foe); Guatemata (Velasquez de Leon, Constancia® }*), 
Poctun, Choctum, Coban, Cahabon (0. 8S. & F. D. G.); Honpuras, San Pedro 
(G. M. Whitely ®); Nicaracua, Hato Viejo (Baater); Costa Rica!’, Turrialba 
(Carmiol®, Arcé), San Juan (v. Frantzius °). 
Owing to Bonaparte having described a young male of this species a good deal of 
discussion has arisen respecting it; but Mr. Sclater’s determination of Bonaparte’s bird 
and his fuller description have considerably lessened the difficulties surrounding its 
proper title. We are unable, however, to follow Mr. Sclater in his definition of the 
range of HL. hirundinacea, a bird which we have not been able to trace beyond Costa 
Rica. The State of Panama and Colombia, though both are included by Mr. Sclater 
within the range of H. hirundinacea, appear, from the evidence before us, to be occupied 
by LE. laniirostris to the exclusion of the allied species. Then, again, the bird figured 
in the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Zoological Society for 1854 ? as the male of EL. hirundinacea 
is, we feel sure, that sex of L. laniirostris, as indeed Mr. Sclater himself subsequently 
admitted. The drawing was probably taken from Captain Kellett’s Chiriqui example. 
Though £. hirundinacea is very like F. laniirostris, they may be readily recognized 
from one another, the male of the former having less yellow on the head, and the 
white of the inner web of the outer tail-feathers continuing further to the end of the 
feather. The female of /. hirundinacea has the whole of the middle of the under. 
parts greyish white, whereas this part in Z. /anitrostris is yellowish olive. 
