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life.?); legs and feet grayish dusky (bluish gray in life?); length (skins), 

 123.2-14:7.3 (131.3); wing, 65.3-Y3.7 ((58.1); tail, 55.1-60.7 (58.4); 

 exposed cubnen, 10.9-13.2 (12.4); depth of bill at base, 7.6-8.1 (7.9); 

 tarsus, 18-20.3 (18.8); middle toe, 10.7-12.4 (11.4).^ 



Adult female . — Above (including sides of head and neck) yellowish 

 olive-green, more decidedly 3'ellowish on head and neck; scapulars 

 dark olive-grayish; wings and tail dusky grayish, the latter with 

 olive-green, the former with paler grayish edgings (more olive-green 

 on secondaries); middle and innermost greater wing-coverts tipped 

 with white, forming one distinct and one indistinct band; under parts 

 bright yellow (gamboge), slightly tinged with olive on sides and flanks; 

 lores dusk}'; bill and feet as in the male; length (skins), 116.8-137.2 

 (128); wing, 64.3-68.1 (66.3); tail, 54.6-57.7 (55.6); exposed culmen, 

 12.4-14 (13.2); depth of ])ill at base, 7.6-8.4 (7.9); tarsus, 17.8-19.1 

 (18.3); middle toe, 10.7-11.7 (11. 4). ~ 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Mirador; ,ralapa; Orizaba; 

 Cordova), Puebla (Metlaltoyuca), Mexico (Valley of Mexico), and 

 Chiapas (Tumbala; Ocuilapa); Guatemala (Volcan de Agua; Savana 

 Grande; Retalhuleu; Chisec; Rasche; Barranca Honda); Salvador 

 (San Salvador); British Honduras (Belize)?. 



Tanagra rri/thrumelas (not Pi/ranga enjthromelas Vieillot, 1819) Lichtenstein, 

 Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 2 (Lagunas, Mexico) ; Journ. fiir Or'n., 1863, 

 57. 



Pyranga erythrnmelxna Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1856, 126 (monogr. ; 

 Lagunas, Orizaba, Jalapa, and Cordova, Vera Cruz; Guatemala), 303 (Cor- 

 dova); 1859, 364 (Jalapa); 1864, 173 (Valley of Mexico); Synop. Av. Tan- 

 agr., 1856, 50; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 81 (Jalapa; Guatemala); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 189, part (Jalapa and Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Volcan de 

 Agua, Savana Grande, Retalhuleu, Chisec, Rasche, and Barranca Honda, 

 Guatemala; ? Belize, British Honduras). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 

 15 ( Pacific slope and Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 100 (Pacific 

 slope, Guatemala); 1861, 147 (mountains of Rasche, Guatemala); Cat. 



^ Fourteen specimens. 



* Seven specimens. 



I can discover no difference between Mexican specimens (of which, however, the 

 series examined is very unsatisfactory) and those from Guatemala and Salvador. 

 Their average measurements are as follows: 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Depth 

 of bill 

 at base. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES, 



Four adult males from Vera Cruz 



Three udult males from Chiapas 



Seven adult males from Guatemala. 

 One adult male from Salvador 



FEMALE.S. 



One adult female from Vera Cruz 



One adult female from Chiapa.s 



Seven adult females from Guatemala. 



69.3 

 70.4 

 66.5 

 7i.6 



70.1 

 66.0 

 66.3 



58.9 

 60.2 

 57. 2 

 60. 5 



58.9 

 57.7 

 55.6 



12.7 

 11.7 

 12.4 

 12.7 



12.4 

 12.7 

 13.2 



19.3 

 18.5 

 18.3 

 19.1 



18. 8 

 18. 5 

 18.3 



11.2 

 11.9 

 11.2 

 12.4 



11.9 

 10.9 

 11.4 



