852 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



J'(irlnjrhav)phus aglaiss Sclater, Pror. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 297 (Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz; diagn.; crit.); 1857, 74 (monogr.); 1859, 366 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; crit.). — 

 Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 164 (San Diego, Nuevo Leon); 

 ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), 164, pi. 47, fig. 1; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 120; 

 Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 7, pi. 9, fig. 1 (San Diego, 

 Nuevo Leon). 



riatypsans aglaiae (not of Sclater, 1859) Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 

 1869, 558 (Vera Cruz).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 31 (Jalapa; 

 habits; descr. nest). — Nelson, N. Am. Fauna, no. 14, 1899, 47 (range). 



r[latypsaris] aglaise Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 324, part. — Coues, Key 

 N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., i, 1903, 535, part. 



[Platypsaris] aglaix Sharpe, Hand-list, iii, 1901, 163, part. 



H[adrost.omus\ aglaiae Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., ii, Oct., 1859, 85 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz) . 



Hadrostomus aglaix Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 240, part (Jalapa); Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1864, 176 (City of Mexico); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiv, 1888, 335, 

 part (Jalapa). — Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 333. — Ferrari- 

 Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 156, part (Rancho del Ahuehuete, 

 Puebla; Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 ii, 1890, 121, part (e. Mexican localities). 



[Hadrostomus] aglaix Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 56, part. 



Platypsaris affinis (not Psaris affinis Lesson, 1840) Elliot, Ibis, i, Oct., 1859, 394, 

 pi. 13 (''Mexico"; type now in coll. Am. Mus. N. H.). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lend., 1859, 366 (Jalapa; crit.). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., 

 i, 1869, 558 (alpine reg.. Vera Cruz). 



Hadrostomus affinis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 306, footnote. 



P[achyrhamphus] iiiinor (not Qucruta minor Lesson) Cabanis, in Wiegmann's 

 Archiv. fiirNaturg., 1847, i, 241, part (Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



(?) [Packyramphus] minor Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 180, part (Mexico). 



PLATYPSARIS AGLAI.(E SUMICHRASTI Nelson. 

 SUMICHRASTS BECARD, 



Similar to P. a. aglaise, but much darker, the adult male with the 

 back, etc., blackish slate to black, but little different from and not 

 contrasted with the black of pileum ; gray of under parts much darker, 

 and, usually, color of throat more purplish red (burnt carmine or 

 pomegranate-purple) and frequentl}^ more restricted (especially in 

 examples from Guatemala and British Honduras, in some of which 

 the red is more or less obsolete) ; adult female much darker and more 

 rufescent than that of P. a. aglaise, the pileum often sooty black or 

 slate-black, the back, etc., varying from deep russet-brown (nearly 

 prouts brown) to burnt-umber and rufous-chestnut, the under parts 

 deep buff to deep tawny-buff. 



Adult maZe.— Length (skins), 153-173 (166) ; wing, 83.5-94.5 (89.2); 

 tail, 62-74 (67.4) ; exposed culmen, 16-17 (16.3) ; tarsus, 19.5-23 (21.5) ; 

 middle toe, 12.5-14.5 (13. 2). « 



" Fourteen specimens. 



