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59. Plights poliogaster. Vulg. Pepitero. Hot region. A species peculiar to the hot re- 

 gion, but which ascends even to the height of 1000 metres at the time of the ripening of 

 certain kinds of berries. 



60. Saltator magnoides. Hot region. Also confined to the hot region, the limits of which 

 it rarely passes farther than to the height of 900 metres. 



61. Sidtator atriceps. Hot and temperate regions. Found in the same latitude with the 

 preceding, but extending its movements to the height of at least 1200 metres. It is found 

 near Orizaba, where S. magnoides never appears. 



62. Saltator grandis. Vulg. Terbero. Hot and temperate regions. This third species of 

 Saltator is very nearly equally abundant in both the hot and the temperate regions, and 

 even passes beyond the limits of the latter. In fact, in the valley of Orizaba, it ascends to 

 the height of 1500 metres. 



63. Buarremon brunneinuchus. Vulg. Gargantilla. Barbaddanca. Temperate and alpine 

 region. This is a species which, without being strictly characteristic of the alpine region, 

 for it is quite frequently met with in the temperate, and even within the upper portions of 

 the hot — is still most attached to wooded and mountainous localities, between 500 and 2000 

 metres in height. 



04. Buarremon albinuchus. Vulg. Frailecito. Temperate region. This bird is one of those 

 that add a positive character to the temperate region, from the fact that it is one of the few 

 species that seems to belong exclusively to it. Its zone of habitation may be fixed at 

 between 600 and 1100 metres. 



65. Chlorospingus ophthalmicus. Temperate and hot region. The same may nearly be said 

 of this species, the extreme limits of whose vertical extension cannot be very different. 



66. Lanio aurantius. Hot region. A species peculiar to the hot lands, from which it never 

 advances to a greater height than 400 or 500 metres. I have found it at San Uvero, near 

 San Andres Tuxtla, at Omealca, etc. The physiognomy of this bird, in a state of nature, is 

 not without a relationship to certain Tyrannida?. I consider it more insectivorous than most 

 of the Tanagers. 



67. Phoenieothraupis rubicus. Hot region. 



68. Phoenieothraupis rubicoides. Hot region. 



These two species are peculiar to the hot region, though both occasionally pass beyond its 

 limits, to the height even of 1000 metres, where, however, they are rare. 



69. Pgranga hepatica. Vulg. Colmenero (Bee.-eater). Hot, temperate, and alpine regions. 

 This is, probably, of all the Tanagers of Mexico, the one having by fur the widest geograph- 

 ical range. It is, in fact, to be found everywhere distributed from the coast of the Gulf to 

 an altitude of at least 3000 metres. 



70. Pgranga bidentata. Temperate region. 



71. Pgranga erglhromelcena. Vulg. Misto Colorado. Temperate region. 



I consider these two species as more or less characteristic of the temperate region, from 

 the fact that all the individuals that I have been able to procure have been found in locali- 

 ties between 600 and 1200 metres in height. 



72. Rhamphocelus sanguinolentus. Vulg. Tordo mazon. Hot region. This handsome species 



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