294 TANAGRIDA. 
For many years the only known specimen of this peculiar species was the type 
obtained by Dr. S. Cabot in Yucatan when he accompanied Stephens during his 
celebrated expedition to that country. This type was examined by Mr. Sclater in 
1856 2, by Mr. Ridgway in 1873%, and by Salvin in the following year; all these 
ornithologists agreeing as to the distinctness of the bird from all known species of 
Pyranga. During the last few years, Mr. G. F. Gaumer, who has been making 
collections of birds in Northern Yucatan, has succeeded in obtaining additional specimens, 
including the female, which was not previously known. This was recently described 
by Mr. Lawrence, and, through M. Boucard’s kindness, one has passed into our 
possession. 
The acquisition of the female proves still further the great peculiarity of the bird, 
which in Mr. Ridgway’s synopsis of the genus Pyranga occupies a distinct section. 
P. roseigularis has apparently a very limited range, which is restricted to Northern 
Yucatan, beyond which it has not yet been traced. | 
c. Ale extus olivacee. 
8. Pyranga erythrocephala. 
Spermagra erythrocephala, Sw. Phil. Mag. new ser. i. p. 437". 
Pyranga erythrocephala, DuBus, Esq. Orn. t. 32°; Bp. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 178°; Scl. P.Z.S. 
1856, p. 125°; 1859, p. 377°; 1864, p. 173°; Dugés, La Nat. i. p. 140%. 
Pyranga cucullata, DuBus, Bull. Ac. Brux. xiv. pt. 2, p. 105 *. 
Olivaceo-viridis, subtus flavescens, capite toto et gula rosaceo-coccineis, illo saturatiore, loris et ciliis nigris, 
tectricibus auricularibus sericeo-rosaceis ; rostro et pedibus nigricanti-corneis. Long. tota 6:0, ale 3:0, 
caude 2°9, rostri a rictu 0°6, tarsi 0°8. (Descr. maris (?) ex Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico? ?, Temiscaltepec (Bullock), Guanajuato (Dugés"), valley of Mexico 
(White °), Juquila, Totontepec (Boucard >). 
This Tanager has a very limited range confined to the tablelands of Mexico from 
Guanajuato in the north to Juquila and Totontepec in the south. It was not 
noticed by Sumichrast in the State of Vera Cruz nor yet anywhere on the west 
coast. 
P. erythrocephala was first discovered by Bullock at Temiscaltepec and described by 
Swainson in 1827. A second name, P. cucullata, was given to it twenty years after- 
wards by DuBus. The same author figured it under Swainson’s name in his ‘Esquisses 
Ornithologiques ;’ but the Plate representing it was probably never actually issued, and 
no letterpress accompanies it in the copies of this work which we have seen. 
Of the habits of this species nothing has been recorded, except a note by Bullock 
that it “feeds on insects, but is fond of beef &c. Two were shot on the meat at the 
back of my house!” Specimens of it are rarely seen in collections. 
