PH@NICOTHRAUPIS. 301 
This Mexican and Guatemalan species is closely allied to Phenicothraupis rubica 
of South-eastern Brazil, and can only be distinguished from it by the tail being of almost 
the same tint as the back, in the abdomen being the same colour as the breast, and in 
the throat being clearer red. The ranges of the two birds, however, seem to be 
separated by a very wide interval, the intermediate space being occupied by P. 
vinacea and other species. 
Until quite recently it was supposed that only one variable species of Phenico- 
thraupis was found in Mexico and Guatemala; but Count von Berlepsch, with his usual 
discrimination, has shown that two species have been confounded under the name 
P. rubicoides. The second, described below as P. salvini, is, in fact, the northern 
representative of P. fuscicauda, and is more remotely allied to P. rudicoides than would 
appear at first sight. In arranging the references given above, we have endeavoured to 
assign them to each of these species; but it may hereafter turn out, in a few instances, 
where specimens are no longer accessible, that some we now believe to belong to P. 
rubicoides are really referable to P. salvini. 
Phenicothraupis rubicoides is a common species in Southern Mexico, whence it was 
originally described 1. It is, according to Sumichrast, an inhabitant of the hot region, 
seldom reaching an elevation of between 3000 and 4000 feet 13. In Guatemala we found 
it in similar situations, but as high as about 4500 feet, between the volcanoes of Agua 
and Fuego. But it is essentially a denizen of the hot tropical forests, where it is to be 
met with in the lower underwood. In the neighbourhood of Choctum it is especially 
common and in the vast forests of that district. Here, however, it lives with P. salvini, 
which, again, has a more northern range in the direction of Yucatan and British 
Honduras. 
2. Phonicothraupis vinacea. 
Phenicothraupis vinacea, Lawr. Pr. Ac. Phil. 1867, p. 94°; Ann. Lyc. N. Y. ix. p. 99?;'v. 
Frantzius, J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 299°; Salv. P. Z. 8S. 1870, p. 187%. 
Phenicothraupis rubica?, Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 139 (see Vieillot) *. 
P. rubicoidi persimilis sed supra paulo obscurior, subtus quoque obscurior, gula et abdomine fere concoloribus. 
Q@ paulo magis olivascens quam femina P. rubicoidis, crista verticali forsan pallidiore. (Descr. maris ex 
Calovevora et femine Santa Fé, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica *, Guaitil, Grecia (Carmiol?); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 4, Calove- 
vora 4, and Santa Fé* (Arcé), Panama (M‘Leannan '). 
The first specimens we obtained of this bird were doubtfully referred to Phenico- 
thraupis rubica, to which they have in some respects a closer resemblance than to 
P. rubicoides®. ‘The back is, however, rather darker than that of P. rubica, and the 
tail is of the same colour as the back instead of being lighter red. The colour of the 
under plumage is decidedly darker, especially that of the abdomen, and the throat is 
not paler, as in P. rubicoides. 
