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Blancaneaux); Guatemara (Velasquez de Leon", Constancia), Peten (Ley- 
land \*), Chisec, Choctum, Coban, Cahabon, Tactic, Duefias 13, Retalhuleu and 
Patio Bolas (0. S. & F. D. G.); Honpuras (Dyson2); Omoa (Leyland 14), San 
Pedro (G. M. Whitely §), Lake Yojoa (Taylor 1), 
This is a purely Central-American species, allied to the South-American 7. palmarum, 
the place of which it takes in Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras. 
The first specimens sent to Europe were those of Deppe, who obtained them at 
Jalapa in Mexico, and which were very briefly described by Lichtenstein in his list of 
Deppe’s duplicates! Since then 7. abbas has been found in abundance in Southern 
Mexico by all subsequent collectors. Sumichrast says that it is an inhabitant of both 
the hot and temperate regions, its movements being determined by the ripening of the 
fruits’. In Guatemala we found the same to be the case, and that its range in altitude 
exceeded that of Tanagra cana, as it was frequently to be found at an elevation of 
5000 feet, especially in orchards 8. 
A nest found at Duefias in the month of May was a compact structure composed of 
small twigs with a little wool, and lined with a few pieces of dead flag, fine roots, and 
horse-hair. This is usually placed in a cypress or some thick-growing tree, in the 
upper part of a branch about ten or twelve feet from the ground. The eggs, three in 
number, are spotted or blotched with three shades of a reddish brown on a pale bluish- 
grey ground !4, 
The name Tanagra vicarius given to this bird by Lesson in 1830, in his ‘ Centurie 
Zoologique,’ was based upon specimens from Mexico!™, In point of date this 
description appeared close to that of Lichtenstein, but the latter has been more 
generally adopted by subsequent writers. 
3. Tanagra palmarum. 
Tanagra palmarum, Weid, Reise n. Bras. ii. p.76!; Beitr. iii. p. 489°; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 234°; 
Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 297+; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 571°; 1878, p. 262 7 
1879, pp. 500", 600°; v. Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 209°. 
Tanagra olivascens, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 82 °°. 
Tanagra melanoptera, “ Hartl.,” fide Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 235"; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, 
p- 850"; Salv. P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 188”; Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 99”; v. Frantz. J. f. 
Orn. 1869, p- 298"; v. Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 209”. 
Intense oleaginea, interscapulio obscuriore et ceerulescente tincto, tectricibus alarum majoribus viridescente lavatis, 
capite fere concoloribus, minoribus oleagineo-cerulescentibus ; alis et cauda nigro fuscis, illis vix olivaceo- 
viridi limbatis ; speculo alari et secundariis ad basin pallide olivaceis; alis et cauda plumbeo-nigris 
Long. tota 6°5, ale 3°8, caude 2°9, rostri a rictu 0°7, tarsi 0°7. (Descr. maris ex Paraiso Station, Panama, 
Mus. nostr.) 
@ mari similis, sed coloribus omnibus paulo obscurioribus. 
Hab. Costa Rica, Santa Rosa, Angostura, Turrialba (v. Lrantzius', Carmiol'), 
Tucurriqui (v. Frantzius 4, Arcé); Panama, Santiago de Veraguas (Arce 12), Lion- 
