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under parts of Ixxly inoro strongly buffy, without vinaceous tinge on 

 sides or Hunks; loiiuth (skins), 90-105. 5 "(100. 8); wing, 47.5-51 (4rS.5); 

 tail, 62-57 (54); culmcn, 6.5-7.5 (7.2); tarsus, 15.5-17 (16); middle 

 toe, 8-0 (SA)/' 



SoiitluM'n IMexico. in States of Ciuanajuato (Santa Kosa). TTidalgo 

 (Real dc\ Monte), Mexieo (\'alley of Mexico), Puebla (Teziutlan; Chal- 

 chiconuda). Vera Cruz (Las Vigas; Mirador), Michoacan (Patzcuaro), 

 Oaxaea (La Parada; Mount Zenipoaltepec; Tehuaiitep(M-), and Chiapas 

 (San Cristobal), and highlands of Guatemala (Solola; (rodines; \'ol- 

 can de Fuego; San Lucas; Hacienda Chancol). 



Parus melanotus Sandbach, Rep. Brit. Assoc, iv, 1837 (18.S8), 99 (Mexico; 

 = nomen nudum!) . 



Parus melmiotisB-ARThAVB, Rev. Zool., 1844, 216 (Guatemala; coll. Bremen ]\Iuh.). 



[Parm'] melanotis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 234, no. 3391. 



[Poen7(7] melanotis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 230. 



A[egiihaliscus'\ melanotis Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 90, footnote. 



Psaltria melanotis Westeumaxn, Bijdia^. Dierk., 1851, 16, pi. — Cassix, Illnstr. 

 Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1853, 20. 



Psaltrl])arus melanotis Bonaparte, Conipt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 62. — Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 299 (La Parada, Oaxaea); 1864, 172 (City of 

 Mexico), Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 13 (Mexico).— Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 396 (Guatemala; "Texas" &); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), 

 atlas, pi. 53, fig. 3; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 14, pi. 

 15, fig. 3; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 297; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 84 

 (Cayuilalpam <■).— Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 190 (Solohl, Guatemala); 1874, 99 

 (do.). — SuMicuRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 544 (alpine reg. Vera 

 Cruz). — DuGES, La Naturaleza, i, 1869, 140 (Guanajuato).— Baird, Brewer, 

 and RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 108, pi. 7, fig. 8. — Ridgway, 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 49; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 134 



^' Ten specimens. 



Specimens from different geographic areas compare in average measurements as 

 follows: 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Nine adult males from Vera Cruz, 



Hidalgo, and Michoacan 



Three adult males from Oaxaea 



Six adult males from Chiapas 



Two adult males from Giuitemala 



Puebla, Mexico, 



Five adult females from Vera Cruz, Puebla, Mexico, and 



Hidalgo 



One adult female from Oaxaea 



Four adult females from Chiapas 



Middle 

 toe. 



8.7 

 8 



8.3 

 8.5 



8.7 

 8.5 



I am not able to discern any difference in coloration between Guatemalan speci- 

 mens and those from IMexico. 



''In table of measurements. ^State of Vera Cruz? 



