PYRANGA. 293 
P.azare of Bolivia and Paraguay is more nearly related to P. hepatica than to 
P. testacea, having the middle of the back tinged with grey. But the bird really 
most nearly allied to the present one is that recently described by us from British 
Guiana as P. hemalea, which, however, is of a still deeper almost vinous red, and 
the throat and middle abdomen are lighter, and contrast with the chest and flanks. 
The distinctions between all these birds are no doubt slight, but the lines dividing 
the species are not drawn so closely as in the allied genus Phenicothraupis, and division 
brings out more plainly the peculiarities of their geographical distribution. 
Of the habits of this species we know but little, but it seems to frequent the lower 
ranges of mountainous regions. 
The Plate represents a male and female from the State of Panama, types of the 
original description. 
6. Pyranga figlina, sp. n. 
Pyranga hepatica, Salv. P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 189" (nec Sw.). 
Pyranga saira var. testacea, Baird, Brew. & Ridgw. N. Am. B. i. p. 434? (nec Sel. & Salv.). 
P. testacee similis, sed colore rubro omnino sordidiore, tectricibus auricularibus fuscis. (Descr. maris ex Manati 
river, British Honduras. U.S. Nat. Mus. 74693.) 
2 quoque femina P. testacee sordidior, abdomine imo vix flavescente. (Descr. feminz ex Poctun, Guatemala. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. British Hoypuras, Manati river (Dr. Berendt); GuaTemaa, pine-ridge of Poctun 
(O. 8S. & F. D. G.4), 
Mr. Ridgway has kindly sent us an adult male of this Pyranga, which, on comparison 
with our series of P. testacea, presents differences which render its separation necessary. 
A female long in our collection, and supposed to belong to P. hepatica 1, we now place 
here, it being evidently a female of the British-Honduras bird. 
The red colour of the plumage in P. figlina is not nearly so bright as in P. testacea, 
having a browner tint; the female, too, is a much duller-coloured bird. Both have 
brownish ear-coverts, a character of P. hepatica, from which, however, this bird differs 
in the coloration of the back. 
7. Pyranga roseigularis. 
Pyranga roseigularis, Cabot, Bost. Journ. N. H. v. p. 4161; Scl. P.Z.S. 1857, p. 67; Ibis, 1873, 
p. 125. t. 3°; Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Ac. Se. ii. p. 2454; Boucard, P. Z.S. 1883, p. 443°. 
Fusco-cinerea, dorso saturatiore rufescente tincto, loris, ciliis, genis et pectore sordide flavo indutis, subtus 
cinerea medialiter dilutior ; pileo toto, alis, tectricibus supracaudalibus, et cauda fusco-rufis, gula pallide 
rosacea, subalaribus et crisso dilutioribus. Long. ale 3-05, caude 2°75, tarsi 0°80. (Descr. exempl. typ. 
apud Ridgway, Ibis, 1873, p. 125. Mus. Dr. Cabot.) 
Q mari similis sed capite summo olivaceo et gula flavida distinguenda. (Descr. femine ex Izalam, Yucatan. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico, Yucatan, between Chemex and Yalahoo (Cabot !), Izalam (Gaumer 5). 
