398 FRINGILLIDA. 
The term melanotis given to this species by Mr. Lawrence cannot unfortunately be 
retained, for it has been previously applied to H. rufescens by Bonaparte, who called 
that bird Geospizopsis melanotis. This being the case, we have introduced Lichten- 
stein’s undefined name acuminata, which is attached to the label of a specimen in the 
Sclater collection derived from the Berlin Museum. 
B. Caput stria verticali nulla, supercilits élongatis nullis, loris tantum albis. 
7. Hemophila humeralis. (Tab. XXIX. fig. 1.) 
Hemophila humeralis, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 1827. 
Amphispiza ferrariperezi, Ridgw. Auk, iii. p. 832°. 
Supra dorso medio rufescente-fusco guttulato, capite summo et cervice postica obscure nigricante-cinerea, dorso 
postico rufescente-fusco, alis et cauda fusco-nigricantibus, illis et tectricibus suis albido limbatis, scapulari- 
bus pure rufis; fronte, capitis lateribus et torque pectorali nigris ; loris, stria utrinque mystacali, gula et 
abdomine medio albis, hypochondriis pallide cinerascentibus ; rostri maxilla nigricante, mandibula pallida, 
pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 6-0, ale 2°5, caude 2°8, rostri a rictu 0:6, tarsi 0°85. (Descr. exempl. ex 
Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Muxico’ (Boucard), Chietla, State of Puebla (Diaz 2). 
We know very little of this well-marked species, which was described by Prof. 
Cabanis from Mexican specimens as long ago as 1851. No mention is made of it in 
any of Mr. Sclater’s lists of the collections of Sallé, Boucard, and others ; nor does 
Sumichrast ever seem to have met with it. We have a single example furnished us 
by M. Boucard, but without special locality. . 
Mr. Ridgway has recently described a Mexican Finch under the name of Amphispiza 
Serrariperezi *, and he kindly sent us a photograph of the types (male and female). We 
have no difficulty in recognizing them as representing Hawmophila humeralis. These 
birds are now in the National Museum of Mexico, and were obtained near Chietla 
. In the State of Puebla, and are the only examples we know the precise locality of 
which has been recorded. 
Mr. Ridgway compares the bird with Amphispiza quinquestriata, but its relationship 
certainly lies with Hemophila mystacalis. 
Our figure is taken from a bird in our collection, probably a female. The male, of 
which there is an example in the British Museum, has the head of a more uniform 
black. 
8. Hemophila mystacalis. 
Zonotrichia mystacalis, Hartl. Rev. Zool. 1852, p. 3°; Scl. P.Z.S. 1856, p. 8057; 1859, p. 879°; 
Lawr. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 21%. 
H. humerali similis, capite summo cinereo nigro striato, subtus gula antica nigra nec alba, cervicis lateribus et 
pectore toto cinereis nec nigris, inter alia primo visu distinguenda. (Descr. maris ex Oaxaca, Mexico. 
Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Muxico 1 ?, Tehuacan (Swmichrast +), Oaxaca (Boucard ®). 
