PYRANGA. 295 
B. Ale bifasciate. 
9. Pyranga erythromelzna. 
Tanagra erythromelas, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vog. p. 2; J. £. Orn. 1863, p.57'; Scl. P.Z.S. 
1856, pp. 126°, 803°; 1859, p. 3644; 1864, p. 173°; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p.15°; Salv. 
This, 1861, p. 1477; P.Z.S. 1870, p. 187°; Cat. Strick]. Coll. p. 192°; Lawr. Ann. Lye. 
N. Y. ix. p. 99°; v. Frantzius, J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 299"; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 
N. H. i. p. 549”. 
Pyranga leucoptera, Trudeau, Journ. Ac. Phil. viii. p. 160”. 
Pyranga bivittata, Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1842, p. 70". 
Phenicosoma bivittata, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 24. 
Coccinea, dorso obscurior ; fronte, capitis lateribus, mento summo, alis et cauda nigris; alis albo bivittatis, sub- 
alaribus albis; rostro et pedibus corneis. Long. tota 5:5, ale 2°8, caude 2-4, rostri a rictu 0°6, tarsi 0°75. 
(Descr. maris ex Jalapa, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
Q flavo-olivacea, capite summo et corpore subtus flavescentibus, alis fusco-nigris albo bivittatis, scapularibus 
griseis ; cauda fusco-nigra, extus olivaceo limbata. (Descr. femine ex Vera Paz, Guatemala. Mus. 
nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico 1°, Lagunas (Deppé1*), valley of Mexico (White>), temperate region of 
Vera Cruz (Sumichrast *), Orizaba (Botteri?), Cordova (Sallé*), Jalapa’® (de 
Oca*); Britist Honpuras, Belize (Blancaneaux); Guatemata (Constancia °), 
Chisec, mountains of Rasché 7, Santa Lucia Cosamalguapa °, Escuintla, Retalhuleu, 
Volcan de Agua above San Diego, forests of the Volcan de Atitlan (0. S. & 
fF. D. G.); Costa Rica (v. Frantzius "), Tucurriqui (Arcé), Barranca, Dota Moun- 
tains (Carmiol 1°), Navarro (Cooper !°); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui %, Calobre, 
Calovevora § (Arcé). 
Mexican specimens of this species agree with those of Western Guatemala in 
having the red of the upper surface, especially of the back, of a rather duller hue than 
is the case in birds from Eastern Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Panama; the former, too, 
are usually larger, but this isnot always the case. Subject to this slight variation P. ery- 
thromelena ranges almost uninterruptedly from Southern Mexico to the State of Panama. 
In South America an allied species occurs, P. ardens, the range of which extends 
from Colombia, Venezuela, and Guiana to Ecuador and Peru. In this southern bird 
the lores alone are black, whereas in its more northern representative, not only the 
lores but the forehead, the region round the eyes, and also the chin are black, but to 
a slightly variable extent as regards the amount on the forehead. 
Though found in comparatively low ground as at Escuintla, Retalhuleu, &c., P. 
erythromelena belongs properly to the forest-region of the mountain-slopes of between 
2000 and 4000 feet elevation, and we obtained it in dense forest at Rasché in Vera 
Paz. It keeps to the branches of forest trees, often so high as to be almost out 
of shot. 
Of its nest and eggs nothing is known. 
