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p- 501°; Gosse, B. Jam. p. 259°; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 491°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. 
Soc. N. H. i. p. 552”. 
Hedymeles ludovicianus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 152°; J. f. Orn. 1861, p. 7°; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 301”; 
1859, p. 8365"; 1860, p. 293"; 1864, p. 174 ; Moore, P. Z. 8S. 1859, p.58™; Scl. & Salv. 
Ibis, 1859, p.17" ; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 836°; 1879, p. 506” ; Lawr. N. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 297"; 
ix. pp. 102, 200” ; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. No. 4, p.19”; Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 275 **; 
Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 300”; Salv. P. Z. 8.1870, p. 189*; Cat. Strickl. Col. p. 218”; 
Wyatt, Ibis, 1871, p. 328”; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 70”; Salv. & Godm. 
Ibis, 1880, p. 122 *; Boucard, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 444°. 
Zamelodia ludoviciana, Coues, Key N. Am. B. ed. 2, p. 389”. 
Goniaphea ludoviciana, Gundl. Orn. Cub. p. 95”. 
Fringilla rhodocampter, Licht. Preis-Verz. mex. Vég. p. 1, cf. J. f. Orn. 1868, p. 56”. 
Nigerrimus; uropygio, abdomine, speculo alari et fasciis alarum duabus albis; pectore medio et subalaribus. 
PY P Pp 
lete rosaceis, caude rectricibus tribus utrinque lateralibus albo maculatis ; rostro pallido, pedibus plumbeis. 
Long. tota 7:0, ale 3°8, caude 39, rostri a rictu 0°6, tarsi 0°9. (Descr. maris ex Yucatan. Mus. 
nostr. ) 
© fusca, supra fusco-nigro striata, vertice medio et superciliis albidis ; subtus alba fusco (preter abdomen 
medium) guttulata ; alis albo bifasciatis, subalaribus ochraceis ; rostro pallide corylino, pedibus corylinis. 
_ (Descr. feminz ex Duefias, Guatemala. Mus, nostr.) 
Hab. Nortn America, Eastern United States to plains of the Missouri River 2’, Texas °. 
—Mexico §31 (Bullock ), plains of Colima (Xantus 2”), valley of Mexico (White }°), 
Orizaba and Tierra Caliente (Le Strange), Cordova (Sallé!), Jalapa (de Oca", 
Deppe), State of Vera Cruz in winter (Sumichrast"), Tonala, Santa Efigenia ?! 
(Sumichrast), Merida in Yucatan (Schott °°, Gaumer #°); GuatemaLa™ (Velasquez de 
Leon *, Constancia *°), Vera Paz (Skinner ), Retalhuleu, Duefias, Volcan de Fuego, 
San Gerdnimo, Tactic, Coban, Choctum (0. 8S. & F. D. G.); Honpuras, Omoa 
(Leyland 14), San Pedro (G. M. Whitely 1°); Costa Rica (V. Frantzius® ?%), San 
José 19, Angostura (Carmiol), La Palma (Zeledon 1), Cache (Rogers); Panama, 
Volcan de Chiriqui (Arcé +), line of Railway (J/‘Leannan !*).—Cotomsia 17 26 28 ; 
Ecuapor !?; Antitues, Cuba *, Jamaica 5. 
Males of this species in full plumage are seldom met with anywhere within our limits ; 
indeed the only one in this stage that we possess is that described above from Yucatan. 
The usual dress is one in which the rosy colour of the under wing-coverts, as well as a 
more or less pronounced patch of that colour on the breast, shows the sex of the bird. 
The rest of the plumage is usually a transitional one, in which the striped character of 
the young is mingled with the darker tints of the adult. Many of the birds in this 
transitional plumage are probably in winter dress, and the full plumage is only assumed 
on the approach of the breeding-season. 
Hedymeles ludovicianus is a common winter visitant to Mexico and Central America, 
being abundant at that season in Guatemala from the sea-level to a height of about 
7000 feet. Being a bird of the Eastern States, it does not touch Western Mexico in its 
winter migration until the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is reached, but thence southwards it 
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