360 FRINGILLIDA. 
Supra olivacea ; vertice antico, genis et pectore toto nigris, stria superciliari a naribus ducta et gula lete flavis - 
abdomine fusco, crisso olivaceo intermixto; nostro nigro, pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 4:0, alee 2-0, 
caude 0-7, tarsi 0°6. (Descr. maris ex Paraiso, Panama. Mus. nostr.) 
© olivacea, subtus pallidior et fusco lavata, gula et abdomine medio sordide albicantibus. (Deser. femine ex 
Sarchi, Costa Rica, Smiths. Inst. no. 41,887. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Muxico??°*4, Temiscaltepec, Real del Monte (Buillock1), valley of Mexico 
(White"), Cordova (Sallé*), Jalapa (Pease**, de Oca*®), Orizaba (Sumichrast 38), 
Totontepec (Boucard®), Dondominguillo (Swmichrast), Merida in Yucatan 
(Schott °, Gawmer?'); Guatemata, Sakluk near Peten (0. 8.15); Costa Rica (v. 
Franizius* 1°), San José (v. Frantzius®, Carmiol 4), Sarchi (Carmiol ®), Turrialba 
(Arcé); Panama, Chitra 1’, Santa Fé1¢ (Arcé), Lion Hill (M‘Leannan® 12), Paraiso 
Station (Hughes).—Co.LomBia }3 20, 
The little species was first sent from Mexico by Bullock}, and it has since been 
found over the greater part of Southern Mexico, being common in the valley of 
Orizaba up to an elevation of 4600 feet 18. These Mexican specimens have the darkest 
heads, cheeks, and under plumage of any of our series. In Yucatan and thence 
southwards through Peten, Costa Rica, the State of Panama, and Colombia individuals 
have slightly more olivaceous cheeks, and the black of the head is more restricted ; they 
thus approach the Cozumel bird, where these characters become more definite, these 
last-named birds forming a step towards the Antillean P. olivacea. We doubt, how- 
ever, if the links connecting all these birds together exist, though in all probability the 
continental ones belong to one somewhat variable but indivisible species. 
Salmon found P. pusilla breeding in the Colombian State of Antioquia, the eges 
being white, marked, especially at the larger end, with brown spots 2°. 
In Guatemala P. pusi/la must be considered a rare bird; we ourselves only once met 
with it in the savana of Sakluk near Peten ©. 
2. Phonipara intermedia. 
Phonipara pusilla, Salv. Tbis, 1885, p. 190°. 
Euetheia olivacea intermedia, Ridgw. Descr. Cozumel B. p. 2°; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. viii. p- 568 *, 
P. pusille affinissima, sed pileo dorso concolori, fronte stricte nigra, regione parotica olivacea a gula flava lineola 
nigra bene definita separata, forsan distinguenda. 
Hab. Mexico, Cozumel Island off the coast of Yucatan (Benedict 23, Devis 1, Gaumer). 
Mr. Gaumer has recently sent us a good series of specimens of this bird, which is 
certainly intermediate between P. pusilla on the one hand, and P. olivacea on the 
other. The differences from the latter consist in its larger blacker bill and the darker 
upper surface. At present it is only known from Cozumel, where it has been found by 
all the collectors who have recently visited that island. 
