ATLAPETES, —PIPILO. 405. 
authors. The position of the genus itself, too, is a matter of controversy, some writers 
placing it with the Tanagers near Buarremon, others near Embernagra with the Finches. 
It is the latter position that we have been accustomed to assign to it, but we are by no 
means confident that this view is the correct one. The form of the claws and feet 
indicate a more arboreal habit than that possessed by Eméernagra, and the coloration, 
too, as well as the shape of the bill, conforms rather to Buarremon. 
The bill has the culmen nearly straight, there is a lateral ridge on either side run- 
ning from the nostril, which itself is pointed anteriorly and has a membrane along its 
upper edge ; the tomia of the mandible is slightly angular, the anterior portion being 
nearly straight, with a perceptible notch near the extremity. ‘The feet are rather 
slender, the middle toe and claw being about equal to the tarsus; the claws themselves 
are short and strongly curved; the wings are much rounded, the third quill is slightly 
longer than the second and fourth, the first falling half an inch short of the point of 
the wing; the tail is rather long, and the feathers narrow and pointed. 
1. Atlapetes pileatus. 
Allapetes pileatus, Wag]. Isis, 1831, p. 526’; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 4867; Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, p. 304°; 
1859, p. 880°; Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 551°. 
Supra fusco-olivaceus, pileo toto castaneo, capitis et cervicis lateribus cinereis ; loris, oculorum ambitu et regione 
parotica nigricantioribus ; subtus flavus, hypochrondriis oleagineo-fuscis ; rostri maxilla nigricante, man- 
dibula et pedibus corylinis. Long. tota 5:8, ale 2°5, caude 2:8, rostri a rictu 0-5, tarsi 0-9. (Deser. 
maris ex Totontepeque, Mexico merid. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico} ?, La Parada, State of Oaxaca‘ (Bowcard), alpine region of Vera Cruz 
(Sumichrast >). 
Sumichrast tells us* that this species belongs exclusively to the alpine region, where 
it inhabits the forests of pines and oaks, having the same range of altitude as Junco 
cinereus, that is, between 6500 and 11,500 feet above the sea. It was first described 
by Wagler as long ago as 1831, in his paper on Mexican animals published in the ‘ Isis’ 
for that year, and it has since been sent sparingly by collectors who have worked in the 
Mexican highlands. Its range seems limited to the higher mountain-ranges of Southern 
Mexico. 
PIPILO. 
Pipilo, Vieillot, Analyse, p. 32 (1816) ; Baird, Brew., & Ridgw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 104; Coues, Key 
N. Am. B. ed. 2, p. 395. 
The members of this genus fall naturally into two sections, which Dr. Coues calls 
the black and the brown species—the former represented in our fauna by P. maculatus 
and its allies, the plumage of which is to some extent black; of the latter, P. fuscus 
is the typical form. To these a third group is added, of which P. chlorurus is the sole 
representative; but this differs widely from the other Pipilones, and, in our opinion, is 
