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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATP:S NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult fimale.—l^ength (skins), 167.6-177.S (171.7); wing-, SO.8-95.8 

 (s7. 1); tail, 64.8-78.7 (70.6); exposed culinen, 17-17.5 (17.3) depth 

 of hill at base, 10.4-11.2 (10.7); tarsus, 20.8-21.3 (21.1); middle toe, 

 15-15.2 (15.2).^ 



Guatemalan specimens have the wing and tail longer, average measurements being 

 as follows: 



Central Guatemala (pine-ridge of Poctun) to southern Honduras 

 (Segovia River). ^ 



Pijranya textarea (not of Selater and Salvin) Ridgway, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1869, 133, part (Rio Manati and Belize, British Honduras). — Boucard, Liste 



Ois. Guat., 1878, 33. 

 \_Pyranga'] testacea Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 22, part 



(Honduras). 

 \_Pyranga mira'] var. testacea Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway' s Hist. 



N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 434, part (Rio Manati and Belize, British Honduras). 

 Pyranga figlhm Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, sig. 37, Dec. 1883, 



293 (Manati R., British Honduras; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Sclater, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 185 (pine-ridge of Poctun, Guatemala). 

 Piranga Jigliua Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 585 (Segovia R., 



Honduras) . 

 P[;iranga] Jiglhia Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 455. 



PIRANGA ERYTHROMELAS (Vieillot). 

 SCARLET TANAGER. 



Adult male in fij^rhig and i^ummer. — Uniform intense scarlet or 

 scarlet-vermilion,'' the scapulars, wings, and tail uniform deep l)lack;* 

 under wing-coverts white (sometimes tinged with scarlet), with a broad 



1 Three specimens. 



^ While the specimens from Segovia River have decidedly shorter wings and tail 

 than those from Guatemala, the coloration of the examples seen is decidedly that of 

 the present form. 



^The red varies consideral)ly, being sometimes of a Hamc-scarlet or almost orange 

 hue; more rarely the red is replaced l)y orange-yellow. 



*The middle wing-coverts are sometimes marki-d with ri'd, orange, or yellow, 

 rarely forming a broad and conspicuous band. 



