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bright, rather pale vermilion than orange-scarlet, some of the feathers 

 (especially on breast) with paler tips. 



Adult female in. saiainet'. — Pileum yellowish olive-green, becoming 

 yellow on supraloral region, passing gradually into dull olive-grayish 

 on back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, the last more tinged 

 with olive-yellowish; wings darker brownish gra}" with paler edgings, 

 these pale olive-graj^ish (tinged with yellowish) on greater coverts and 

 tertials, light yellowish olive-green or almost yellow on primaries and 

 proximal secondaries; tail dull grayish olive with yellowish olive-green 

 edgings; loral, sul)orbital, and auricular regions dull grayish; under 

 parts mainly yellow, brightest (gamboge or chrome) on throat, palest 

 (canar}' yellow) on under tail-coverts, the sides tinged with grayish 

 olive, passing into light yellowish gray on flanks; bill, feet, etc., as in 

 adult male. 



Adult female in autumn and winter. — Similar to the summer female, 

 but plumage softer and coloration rather l)righter. 



Young., nestling ]jlumage. — Conspicuously streaked beneath with 

 dusky on a pale bufi^y ground, more indistinctly streaked above on a 

 grayish olive ground; middle and greater wing-coverts margined ter- 

 minallv with bufl'; otherwise like adult female.^ 



Adult mrt/(>.— Length (skins), 175.3-198.1' (186.2); wing, 100.6- 

 104.9 (102.6;; tail, 79.2-85.6 (81.5); exposed culmen, 16.8-18.5 (17.5); 

 depth of bill at base, 9.9-11.1 (10.1); tarsus, 22.1-23.9 (22.6); middle 

 toe, 15.2-17.5 (16).=* 



Adult female.^\jQ\^g\k (skins), 175.3-196.9 (186.9);* wing, 97.8-101.3 

 (99.3); tail, 71.7-81.8 (79.8); exposed culmen, 17-18 (17.5); depth of 

 bill at base, 10.2-10.7 (10.1); tarsus, 21.8-23.1: (22.6); middle toe, 

 15.5-16.8 (16).' 



Mexican plateau, and northward to northwestern Arizona (confluence 

 of Beaverdam River and Rio Virgin) and southern New Mexico; 

 highlands of Guatemala. 



Pyranga hepatica Swainson, Philos. Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 438 (Real del Monte, 

 Hidalgo, Mexico). — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 124 (monogr. ); 

 1857, 213 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz); 1858, 303 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1859, 364 

 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 377 (Talea, Villa Alta, and Choapam, Oaxaca); 1864, 

 373 (Valley of Mexico); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 48; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 81 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 186.— Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv. ix, 1858, 302 (Zuni and Fort Thorn, New Mexico); ed. 

 1860 (" Birds N. Am." ), atlas, pi. 31; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 222.— Ken- 

 NERLY, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, 1859, 30, pi. 31 (San Francisco Mts., Ari- 

 zona).— Henry, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1859, 106 (New Mexico).— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 15 (Guatemala) — Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. 



^ The specimen described lacks the head. 



^Length before skinning about 208.3 



^ Seven specimens, from Arizona and New Mexico. 



* Lengtn before skinning about 198.1-205.7. 



^ Five specimen, from Arizona and New Mexico. 



