402 FRINGILLIDA. 
neis, loris albescentibus, fronte et genis fuscescente-nigris ; subtus album, hypochondriis dorso concoloribus, 
macula pectorali indistincta nigra; crisso rufescente; rostro nigricante-corneo, pedibus pallide corylinis. 
Long. tota 7:3, ale 3°3, caude 2°9, tarsi 1-0. (Descr. exempl. typ. ex ? Mus. Paris.) 
Hab. Mexico (?). 
We have nothing to add to the account of this bird given in 1868 in ‘ Exotic Orni- 
thology,’ where the type specimen of the Paris Museum was described and figured. No 
other example has come under our notice, and we still remain in ignorance of the 
precise habitat of the species ; but the evident resemblance of the bird to P. rubricatum 
is suggestive of a Mexican or Central-American domicile. 
Compared with P. rubricatum, P. kieneri is a larger bird, with a stouter billand much 
stronger feet and tarsi; moreover, the former species has a white ring round the eye 
wanting in the latter, and the summit of the head brown like the back instead of bright 
rufous. 
The type specimen, which, so far as we know, remains unique, is marked as having 
been procured in May 1843, during the expedition of the ‘ Danaide,’ by M. Jaurés, but 
no locality is attached to the label. 
3. Pyrgisoma rubricatum. 
Tanagra rubricata, Licht. in Mus. Berol.*. 
Atlapetes rubricatus, Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 140°. 
Melozone rubricata, Cab. J. f. Orn. 1860, p. 413°; 1866, p. 234%. 
Pyrgisoma rubricatum, Scl. & Salv. P. Z.S. 1868, p. 326°; Ex. Orn. p. 127, t. 64. f. 1°; Lawr. 
Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 2787. 
Pyrgisoma xantusi, Lawr. Aun. Lyc. N. Y. vii. p. 480°. 
Supra cinereum fusco vix tinctum ; pileo postico cum nucha et linea cervicali utrinque ad gulam extensa rufis ; 
macula anteoculari et oculorum ciliis albis; fronte et facie sub oculis nigricante-schistaceis ; tectricibus 
auricularibus dorso concoloribus ; subtus album, plaga pectorali nigra, crisso rufescente, hypochondriis dorso 
concoloribus, subalaribus et flexura alari albis; rostro nigro, pedibus pallide corylinis. Long. tota 7-0, 
alee 3°2, caude 3-0, rostri a rictu 0°6, tarsi 1:0. 
Hab. Muxico', Mazatlan, Tepic, and San Blas (Grayson’, Xantus"), Presidio (Forrer), 
plains of Colima (Xantus**), Real Arriba (Deppe*), Atlisco (Boucard * §), 
The original specimens of this species were contained in Deppe’s collections and sent 
to the Berlin Museum, where they remained until 1851, when Prof. Cabanis described 
them as Atlapetes rubricatus, adopting the unpublished specific name given them by 
Lichtenstein. 
P. rubricatum was subsequently discovered at Colima by Xantus, and near Mazatlan 
as well as Tepic and San Blas by Grayson, who remarks that it is not an abundant 
species, though resident throughout the year, inhabiting chiefly the woods. M. Alphonse 
Forrer also found it at Presidio near Mazatlan. In this part of Mexico this species 
therefore lives near the sea-coast; but further south, where M. Boucard met with it 
near Atlisco in the State of Puebla, it frequents the mountainous region. 
