434 XOUTII AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Auricnlars grayish like the back ; eyelids light red ; lores grayish. 

 Wing, 4.10; tail, 3.40; bill, .50. Hah. fable-lauds uf Middle 

 America, north into southern Rocky Mountains of United States. 



var. hepafica. 

 Auriculars reddish like the neck : ej-elids and lores well defined, 

 buBy-while. Wing, 3.GU ; tail, 3.25 ; bill, .4() Ilab. Paraguay. 



var. azarui} 



8. P. saira. Dill large, much swollen laterally, the culmen curved 

 both terminally and ba.sally. ^. Above dark brownish-red, beneath 

 deep scarlet, duller laterally. 9 . Bright olive-green and intense orange- 

 yellow, instead of reddish. 



Commissural tooth indistinct ; forehead considerably brighter red- 

 dish or yellowish than the back. $. Beneath almost entirely pure 

 vermilion-scarlet. 9- Beneath almost wholly pure gamboge-yel- 

 low. Wing, 4.00; tail, 3.40; culmen, .80. Hab. Eastern South 

 America (Brazil and Trinidad) xav. saira .- 



Commissural tooth distinct, prominent; forehead scarcely brighter 

 reddish or yellowish than the back. (J. Beneath brownish-.scarlet 

 medially, more brownish laterally. 9 ■ Beneath ludian-yellow 

 medially, greenish laterally. Wing, 3.70 ; tail, 3.20 ; culmen, .80. 

 Hab. Southern Middle America, on the Atlantic (Belize, Rio 

 Manati, Costa Rica, Angostura, and Veragua) . . var. testacea.' 



C'ommis.v>ire without an appreciable tooth ; bill pale broivnish. 



9. P. eestiva. <J. Above purplish-red, beneath pure, fine, rosaceous- 

 vermilion. 9- Above brownish olive-green, beneath ochraceous-yel- 

 low. 



Head above scarcely brighter reddish or yellowish than the back. 

 Bill, ..55, or less, from nostril ; primaries, .84 longer than secon- 

 daries. Wing, 3.81 ; tail, 2.96 ; bill, ..52. Hab. Eastern Province 

 of United States, south, in winter, through Eastern Middle America 

 to Peru var. ce-'itiv a . 



Head above decidedly brighter reddish or yellowish than the 

 back. Bill, .60 or more, from nostril; primaries, 1.16 longer than 

 secondaries. Wing, 4.24 ; tail, 3.68 ; liill, .64. Hab. Sonthern Mid- 

 dle Province of United States (Upper Rio Grande region and 

 Lower Colorado Basin) ; in winter south, through Western Mexico, 

 to Colima ......... var. cooperi. 



C. Body ashy ; wings, tail, and pilenm dull purplish-red ; throat, lining of wing 

 and crissum dilute roso-pink in the ^. 



10. P. roseigularis.' Sides of head, nape, back, and scapulars deep 

 ash, the dorsal ic.'ion with a faint purplish cast; lores, eyelids, cheeks, 



nd lower parts in gener.il. paler, and with a dingy bulV tinge, — paler 

 I the abdomen, and more strongly marked with ash across the breast 



' f Pi/ranga azarm, D'Orb. Voy. p. 264. ElDGW.w, Pr. Ac. X. .S. Pliil.id. .June, 1869, p. 

 132, fig. 2. 



= Pyrawja saira, Sci.atek, P. Z. S. 1856, 124. KlDOWAV, Pr. A. N. .S. .Tune, 1869, p. 131, 

 fig. 1. (Tanagra saira, Sl'ix, Av. Bras. II, 48, fig. 1.) 



' Pyranga lestttcea, Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1868, 388. Riuuway, Pr. A. N. S. June, 

 1869, p. 133, f. 1. 



* Pi/ranga rnseiU/ularii, Cabot. (T)i"scri]pti<>ii from tln' type.) 



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