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Mountain districts of central and southern Mexico, in states of 

 Durango (El Salto), Zacatecas (Valparaiso Mountains), (iruanajuato, 

 Hidalgo (Real del Monte; San Augustin). Mexico. Puebla (Teziutlan), 

 Vera Cruz (»lalapa, Orizaba, Cordova), Oaxaca (La Parada, Totontepec), 

 Colima (Sierra Madre), Jalisco (San Sr})astian: Sierra Nevada), and 

 Morelos (Tetela del Volcan). 



Ptilogoni/s cl)ierni-'< "Swaixsox, Catal. Bullock's Mex. Muh., 1824, App. page 4" 

 (table lands of ^Mexico). — Boxaparte, Coinp. Av., i, 1850, 335. — Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1856, 299 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1858, 302 (La Parada, 

 Oaxa(;a); 1859, 3(54 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 37(3 (Totontepec, Oaxaca, descr. 

 eggs); 18()4, 173 (City of ^Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, part (Mexico).— 

 Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 319, footnote (Mexico); Review 

 Am. Birds, 1866, 412, part (Sierra Madre de Colima; Orizaba and Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz). — Duces, La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 141 (Guanajuato). — Sumichkast, 

 :\Iem. Bost. 8oc. N. H., i, 1869, 548 (alp. reg.. Vera Cruz, 4,160-10,000 ft. 

 and Valley of Orizaba). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i„ 

 1883, 217, part (Mexican localities).— Sua rpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 

 222, part (:\rexico).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. li., x, 1898, 26 (Jalapa; 

 habits). 



FltUogonjiit] (•merens Cxyixnia, Mus. Heiu., i, 1850, 55 (Jalapa). 



[J^iJngoiiiis} civereus (tR.\y, Hand-list, i, 1869, 366, no. 5568. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 13, part (Mexico). 



Ptiliogonys cinereus Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., i. May, 1827, 368; Zool. Illustr., 

 ser. 2, ii, no. 14, 1831, pi. 62; iii, no. 23, 1832, pi. 102 (Real del Monte).— 

 Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 139 (Teziutlan, Puebla; 

 Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



l'[t'diogoiiiii\ cinereus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 4li4, footnote (descr.). 



riUiogonatus cinereus Swainson, Zool. Journ., iii, Juh', 1827, 164. 



I'liliigcmis cinereus Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. IL, ii, 1874, 273 (Sierra Madre, 

 Colima). 



Ifgpothymis cimj.sorho'ea Temminck, PI. Col., iii, 1828, pi. 452 (Mexico). 



HypiAhynm mexicanus Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. V()g., 1831, 2; Joiu-n. 

 fiir Orn., 1863, 58 (reprint). 



PTILOGONYS CINEREUS MOLYBDOPHANES Ridgway. 

 GUATEMALAN PTIlOGONyS. 



Similar to P. c. cinere\iH^ l)utmorerichly colored, the adult male with 

 flanks olive-green instead of golden ()liv(^ or wax yellow, the area thus 

 coloi'cd nuich more restricted. 



. \(liiJt )iiale. — Head soft smoke gray, becoming dull whit? on fore- 

 luad. anterior portion of malar region, and chin, the auricular region, 

 occiput (concealed l)y longer feathers of crest), and nap(> more brownish 

 gray, but less distinctly brownish than in P. r. ehiereus; a narrow white 

 orbital ring: back, scapulars, wing-ccn^erts. rump, and ui)per tail-cov- 

 erts uniform deep l)luish gray (decidedly darker than in /'. <•. rineren^)^ 

 the chest, breast, upper abdomen, and anterior portion of sides similar 

 but slightly palei-; throat pale gray, the upper portion sometimes white, 

 like chin; lower abdomen and thighs white; Hanks olive-green (nmch 



