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marginatis et terminatis; subalaribus et axillaribus castaneis; hypochondriis paullo castaneo lavatis. 
Long. tota circa 6-1, ale 3-4. (Deser. femine ex Axotla. Mus. nostr.) 
Juv. feminz adult similis, sed plumis albido marginatis distinguenda. 
Hab. Norra America, South Atlantic and Gulf States, breeding from South Carolina to 
Louisiana #, Florida 26 (C. terrestris), Texas to Lower California ” (C. pallescens). 
—Mexico generally (Sumichrast 18), Matamoros (Dresser **), Sonora (Cahoon 26), 
Guaymas (Belding 24), Santa Rosa (Lloyd ?°), Mazatlan (Grayson, Forrer 26), 
Tres Marias Is. (Grayson **, Forrer 26, Nelson *!), Soto La Marina, Aldama, Sierra 
Madre above Ciudad Victoria, Tampico, Tamesi, San Blas, ‘Tepic, Chapala, Vera 
Cruz, Salina Cruz (Richardson 26), Nuevo Leon, Monte Morelos, Hacienda de. los 
Escobas (Armstrong 26), Zapotlan, Jalisco (Lloyd ?*), Chilpancingo, Guerrero 
(Mrs. H. H. Smith?s), Valley of Mexico (White’), Epatlan, Chimalpa, Axotla, 
Coapa, Mexicalcingo, Ixtapalapa, Culhuacan, Coatepec, Chietla, Chiautla, Acatlan 
(Ferrari-Perez 26%), San Andres Tuxtla (Sallé*), Oaxaca (Boucard'), Jalapa 
(de Oca®®, F. D. G.?8, Chapman*), Tehuantepec (Sumichrast '*), Yucatan, 
Merida (Schott 12), Chichén-Itzd (Chapman *°), Tekanto, Ticul (Stone & Baker 38), 
Cozumel I. (Bean *°, Gaumer 5%), Peto, Holbox I., Mugeres I. (Gawmer ® **); 
British Honpuras, Orange Walk (Gaumer 26); Guavema.a, Duefias, San Geronimo 
(0. S. & FD. G. 91026), Panajachel, Santa Maria near Quezaltenango (ichard- 
son 26) ; Nicaragua, Sucuyd 22 and Ometépe I.**, Lake of Nicaragua, San Juan del 
Sur, Pacific coast2! (Nutting), San Carlos (Richmond*8); Costa Rica (v. Frantzius™), 
San José (Carmiol 1, Zeledon *®, Boucard *), Cartago (Cooper ''), Bebedero to 
Miravalles, Alajuela ( Underwood 2"), Volcan de Irazu (Nutting 1°, Rogers *°), La 
Palma, Gulf of Nicoya (Nutting 2°).—Sovurn America generally to Brazil and 
Paraguay 2°; GREATER AND Lesser ANTILLES *°, 
We have carefully examined the large series of specimens which served as the basis 
of Count Salvadori’s study of C. passerina for the ‘ Catalogue of the Birds in the British 
Museum,’ and we agree with him as to the impossibility of detining the various races 
into which the species has been divided by some writers. ‘The only clearly recognizable 
race is that from Socorro Island, which is of a very dark colour. ‘The Jamaica bird is 
identitied by Mr. F. M. Chapman as the true C. passerina of Linneus, and the form 
from the South-eastern United States is therefore separated by him as C. terrestris. We 
have a long series of Florida specimens and the majority are of a very deep vinous tint, 
and some Mexican examples are of the same deep colour; that its richness and 
intensity increase with age there can be no doubt, and that it varies slightly with age 
isalso true. According to Mr. Chapman, the colour of the bill in life is different in the 
various races, being wholly black in the Bahama bird, while the Jamaica form has the 
basal half or two-thirds yellow, this portion of the bill being coral-red in Florida 
specimens. ‘The male of the Jamaica bird is said to be slightly paler and to have 
a whiter throat than its mainland representative; the females, too, show slight 
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