BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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lemon); axillars and under winoj-coverts paler yellow; inner webs 

 of remiges with l^asal half (more or less) pale brownish gray, passing 

 into whitish on edges; maxilla black, mandible more grayish (bluish 

 gray in life); iris brown; legs and feet pale brownish yellow or buffy 

 in dried skins, bright orange-yellow, orange, or reddish orange in life; 

 length (skins), 97-120 (108) ; wing, 53.5-58 (55.1) ; tail, 33-38.5; (36.2) ; 

 exposed culmen, 10-11.5 (11); tarsus, 21-22.5(21.8); middle toe, 

 11.5-13.5 (12.4). « 



Adult female. — Above, including sides of head and neck, plain olive- 

 green, somewhat lighter and more yellowish on lower rump; chin, 

 throat, and chest somewhat lighter olive-green, the chin and uj^per 

 throat sometimes more or less grayish; rest of under parts yellow 

 (lemon to canary), the sides and flanks more or less strongly suffused 

 with olive-green, the breast sometimes obsoletely streaked or flam- 

 mulated with the same; bill, legs, feet, and iris as in male; length 

 (skins), 96-116 (107); wing, 53.5-57.5 (55.4); tail, 32-39 (35.9); 

 exposed culmen, 9.5-12 (10.9); tarsus, 19-22.5 (20.8); middle toe, 

 10.5-13.5 (11.6). ^ 



Young male. — Precisely like the adult female in coloration. 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cordova; Playa 

 Vicente; Buena Vista), Tabasco (Teapa) and Chiapas (Palenque), 

 through Guatemala (Yzabal; Peten; Choctum; Lanquin; Living- 

 ston), British Honduras (Belize; Manatee Lagoon), Honduras (San 

 Pedro; Truxillo; Ceiba; Segovia River), and Nicaragua (Greytown; 



a Twenty-five specimens. 

 b Twenty-one specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Five adult males from Vera Cruz (4) and Tabasco (1) 



Ten adult males from Chiapas (1), Guatemala (5), and Hon- 

 duras (4) 



Ten adult males from Nicaragua (2) and Costa Rica (8) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from ''Mexico" 



Ten adult females from Chiapas (2), Guatemala (3), British 



Honduras (2), and Honduras (3) 



Ten adult females from Nicaragua (2) and Costa Rica (8) 



12.1 

 12.6 



11.4 

 11.8 



With a very much larger series of specimens than that examined by Mr. Bangs, I 

 find his proposed separation of the birds of this species untenable. Examples pre- 

 cisely matching the Vera Cruz specimens in the depth of the yellow and other chai^acters 

 are found in the series from Nicaragua and Costa Rica; and specimens from Guatemala 

 show both extremes in the depth of the yellow of the under parts, while an example 

 from Chiapa.-i, southern Mexico, is quite as intensely yellow below a.s any specimen 

 from a more southern locality. 



