ta>;aui:iu.e — THE taxageks. 433 



2. P. erythromelsena. Wing with two bands of pure white. $. 

 Bright ^c;irlri ; wmgs, tail, and lores intense black. 9. Olive-green 

 above, yellow beneath ; wings and tail slaty. 



Forehead, eyelids, and anterior half of checks velvety-black : red 

 of a carmine shade. Hah. Middle America, north to Mirador. 



var. erythr III elcu na } 

 Forehead, eyelids, and anterior half of cheeks scarlet (lores only 

 black) ; red of a scarlet shade. Hah. Xorthern South America. 



var. a r dens? 



Wings brownhh-dusky in the ^ : back stre.alied iritli hlnrlc. 



3. P. bidentata.' Wing with two bands of i)nikish-wliiti: ( (J), or vel- 

 lowi-sh-whitc (9)- t?- -"^bove reddish-brown ; head and beneath min- 

 ium-scarlet. 9- Above olive-green ; head and beneath yellow. Hab. 

 Middle America (both coasts) from Costa liica to iliddle Mexico. 



b. Bod}' always vellow ; head red in the (J. 



Lrsspr ifinff-rnvei'ts black or duKhi/. 



4. P. ludoviciana. Wing with two light yellow bands. ^. Rack, 

 wing.s, and tail intense black; head crimson. 9- Above ohve-green, 

 tinged with a.sliy on the back; beneath pale greenish-yellow: wings 

 and tail dusky olive-green ; no red on head. //ah. AVc-stern Province 

 of United States. 



Lesser iving-coverts and middle coi-erts i/elhw. 



.5. P. riibrioeps.* \Ving without light bands. ^. Hack and rump 

 ohve-green ; wings and tail black ; head crimson. Ilab. JTew Granada. 



B. Wing and tail reddish or greeni.sh, of the same general color of the upper 

 parts ; wing without any light bands. 



a. Wing, 3.00. Body always yellow ; head red in the (J. 



6. P. erythrocephala." Above olive-green, lieneath 3'ellow. .J. Head 

 red. Wing, 3.00; tail, 2.70. Hab. Me.\ico (Temiscaltipec). 



b. Wing 3.50 or more. Body and head red in ^. 



Commissure with a distinct tooth ; bill bluish. 



7. P. hepatica. Bill small, not swollen laterally ; culmen gently curved 

 terminally, straight basally; commissural tooth .small. ^. Above red- 

 dish-ashy, Ijecoming brighter reddish on the head above ; beneath 

 minium-scarlet medially, much tinged with a.shy laterally. 9- Ashy- 

 green and greenish-yellow, instead of reddish. Jnr. ^, similar, but 

 throat tinged with orange-red. 



1 Piiranga eri/thromelcvim, Sclater, P. Z. S. Lond. 18.56, 126. (Tamifpri erythromclas, 

 LiriiT. Preis.-Verz. d. Saiig. u. Vog. no. 69 ; 1831.) 



- Piiriinrjn nrdcns, ScLATr.r,, P. Z. S. 1856, 126. (Phoinisoma aniens, TscnUDi. Wicg. Archiv, 

 1844, 207.) 



« Pi/rancia bidcnlnta, SwAlxs. Philos. Mag. 1827, 428. 



* Piiranga rubriccps. Gray, Gen. B. fol. p. 364, pi. l.\.x.\ix, 1849. 



^ Pyranga eri/lkrocephala, Bonap. R. Z. 1851, 178. (Spcrmagra crylhrocepluila. Swains. 

 Phil. Mag. 1827, 437. Were it not for the small size, one would, without seeing a .specimen, be 

 inclined to suspect this as being a young male of P. (estiva, which often occurs in very similar 

 plumage. 



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