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areas near camp. They fed on mistletoe berries mainly, but I also 

 observed them working through leaves and smaller branches in the 

 trees and over the seed heads of palms standing in open fields. Males 

 in partly immature dress taken on March 25 and April 6 had the 

 testes about one-half developed. During April I heard their calls 

 constantly near camp but seldom saw them, as they are small 

 in size and remained quiet without much movement. This seemed 

 to be their nesting season. The flight is somewhat undulating 

 where they are observed in the open. Their chattering calls and 

 whistled notes seemed to be somewhat less musical than those of the 

 West Indian forms with which I have been most familiar. 



TANAGRA GOULDI GOULDI (Sclater) 



Euphonia Oouldi P. L. Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, June 6, 1857, p. 66, pi. 

 124 (Guatemala). 



On Cerro de Tuxtla, on March 29, 1940, Carriker found a pair 

 with a band of forest birds and collected the male. This bird and an- 

 other male that was taken by Nelson and Goldman at Motzorongo, 

 Veracruz, March 3, 1894, the only two available from the extreme 

 northern part of the range, have definitely heavier bills than any 

 others seen. The difference is especially noticeable when compari- 

 son is made with Costa Rican specimens. 



THRAUPIS EPISCOPUS DIACONUS (Lesson) 



Tanagra (Aglaia) diaconus Lesson, Rev. Zool., June 1842, p. 175 (Realejo, Nic- 

 aragua). 



This tanager is here not far from its northern limit, and in the 

 region that we worked it occurred sparingly. In 1939 I recorded only 

 a few, securing my first specimen on April 11 from a tree top high 

 above the arroyo at the village, and another at the Arroyo Tepana- 

 guasapan on April 13. Carriker in 1940 shot two at Tres Zapotes on 

 March 25 and May 2 and two at El Conejo on February 12. He saw 

 a few at Tlacotalpam in May. 



THRAUPIS ABBAS (Lichtenstein) 



Tanagra Abbas Lichtenstein, Preis-Verzeichniss rnexicanischer Vbgel, 1830, p. 2 

 (Oaxaca, 74 Mexico). 



This is a common forest bird around Tres Zapotes, and is repre- 

 sented by a series taken throughout the period of our work. Usually 

 it is a forest species, being found in little flocks of 6 or 8 that remain 

 fairly close together. In more open areas they come to small trees 

 where these are in fruit. Carriker found a pair at El Conejo on May 

 15 in a small clump of trees growing in the open at a distance from 



71 See van Rossem, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 77, 1934, p. 419. 

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