BIKDS OF XOKTII AND MTI)I)I>K AMKHICA. 



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tail. 49-55 (51.6): oxposod cuIiikmi. l;v-15 (14); tarsus. iT-lK (ls.4): 

 middle too, 10-11 (10. 8). « 



P^roni northern Mexico, in States of Tanuiulipas (Victoria; Alta 

 Mira). Nuevo Leon (Monterey). Sinaloa (]Vlazatlan; Rosario). etc.. 

 southward over rest of Mexico (includino- Yucatan) and whole of Cen- 

 tral America (both coasts) to Isthmus of Panama, and southward to 

 Ecuador (Rio Napo; Quito), Peru (Guayantifo). and Bolivia. Acci- 

 dental in southern Texas (Fort Brown, one specimen. Auf^ust 2o, 

 LS77), southern California (Riverside, Los Angeles County, one speci- 

 men September 20, 1887), and C^anada ((lodbout. Quebec, one speci- 

 men, May 13, 1883). 



Vireo^jtmajtaroriridis Cassin, Proc. Ac. Xat. S<;i. I'liilad., v, Feb., IS.">1, 1.52, pi. 11 

 (Panama; coll. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad.) . — Sclater, IVoc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 18.56/ 

 298 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1859, 375 (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca); (^at. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 44 (Guatemala).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 323 

 (Panama R. R. ); Mem. Best. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 272 (Mazatlan and Ros^a- 

 rio, Sinaloa); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 17 (Tapana and Santa 

 Efigenia, Oaxaca). — Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1866, 336 (Monterey, Nuevo 

 Leon; ]Mazatlan; Rosario; near Colima; San Jose, Costa Rica; Isthmus of 

 Panama). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 184 (Mina de Chorcha, 

 Bugaba, and Chitra, Veragua). — Scmichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 

 1869, .547 (temp, region Vera Cruz, up to 4,866 ft. on Orizaba). — Frantzii-s, 

 Joui-n. fur Orn., 1869, 295 (Costa Rica). — Baird, Brewer, and Run; way, 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 366.— (?) Taczaxowski, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lon.l., 

 1874, 509 (Monterico, centr. Peru). — Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. ]Mus., i, 

 1878, 125 (Fort Brown, Texas, 1 spec, Aug. 23).— Ridgwav. Pn.c. V. S. Nat. 

 Mus., i, 1878, 125 (synonymy). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 187S, 5.3 

 (San Jose, Costa Rica).— Nittim;, Proc. V. S. Nat. ]Mu.s., v, 1882, 391 (La 

 Palma de Nicoya, w. Costa Rica). 



" Eleven specimens. 



Average measurements according to geographic area are as follows: 



Specimens from eastern Mexico (Tamaulipas to Cainjieche) are appreciaLly 

 lirigliter olive-green above and have the sid»'s and Hanks brighter olive-yellow than 

 tiiosefrom western Mexico, Costa Kica. Veragua, and I'anama, and ]irovini-e of 

 Santa Marta, Colombia. 



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