THAYER AND BANGS: TEARL ISLANDS BIRDS. 159 



*87- Piranga erythromelas (Vieill.). 



Two males, Saboga Island, April 9. Both these are in the scarlet plumage 

 with l)liuk wings; one specimen has a wholly yellow bill. 



88. Raniphocelus dimidiatus limatus (Bangs). 

 Bhamphocdus limatus Bangs, Auk, vol. 18, pp. 31, 32, January, 1901. 



Fort3^-five adult-s of lioth sexes, San Miguel, Saboga, and Pacheca Islands, 

 February, March, and April. 



In Birds of North and Middle America, Ridgway treats this strongly 

 marked island race as a subspecies. Perhaps this is the better course, but it is 

 nevertheless a very distinct form. 



PRINGILLIDAE. 



89. Volatinia jacarini splendens (Vieill.). 

 Thirty specimens, adults of both sexes, and young males, San Miguel Island, 

 February and ]\Iarch. Some examples, like the first two recnrded from the 

 islands, have larger bills than any in a considerable series of mainland speci- 

 mens, but as a rule the bill is not larger than in the continental form. 



'o^ 



90- Sporophila gutturalis (Light.). 

 Two adult males, Saboga Island, April. 



*91. Cyanospiza cyanea (Linne). 

 One female, Saboga Island, April 6. 



92. Oryzoborus funereus Sclater. 

 Ten adults, Itotli sexes, San Miguel and Saboga Lslands, March and April. 



*93. Zamelodia ludoviciana (Linne). 

 One female, San Miguel l.slaud, February 28. 



94- Saltator albicollis isthmicus (Scl). 



Thirty-six adults, both sexes, San Miguel and Saboga Islands, February, 

 March, and April. 



In Birds of North and Middle America Ridgway comments on the rather 

 grayer colors of the original series from San Miguel Island taken in April 

 ami May. The jiiv.sent .series include.^ many specimens in perfectly fresh 

 unworn plumage. These are hardly distinguishable from mainland examples, 



