84 BITLLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Plir<t)trjci hepatica (not of Swainson) Coues, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xviii, 1866, 

 71, part (Los Pinos, New Mexico). — Baikd, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 508 (Tucson, Arizona; descr. nest and eggs). 



Pyranga cooperi Ridgway, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., xxi, June, 1869, 130 (Los 

 Pinos, New Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Coopek, Orn. Cal., 1870, 142 

 (Ft. Mojave, California; Los Pinos; Mazatlan, Colima). — Baikd, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, pi. 20, figs. 1, 2. — Salvin and 

 GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 188.3, 290 (]\Iazatlan; Presidio, near 

 Mazatlan; Colitna). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 184 (Presidio). 



[Piranga'] cooperi Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 61, no. 6847. 



Pyranga .vstiva . . . var. coojjeri Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 108o. — Henshaw, 

 Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 60 (Denver, Colorado), 108 (Gila R., 

 Arizona); Zool. Exp. W. 100th Merid., 1875, 239, pis. 2, 3 (Denver; Gila 

 and San Francisco rivers, Arizona). 



Pyranga ;rMira, var. cooperi Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 i, 1874, 444. 



Pyranga irntiva var. cooperi Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 273 

 (Mazatlan). 



[Pyranga .rsiiva'] b. cooperi Coues, Birds N. W., 1874, 82 (synonymy). 



Pyranga <rstiva cooperi Coues, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 352, part (excl. synonymy 

 under "a. ivdira''); Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 156. — Ridgway, Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 164o.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 147 

 (near Tucson, Arizona; Rio Grande and Gila R., New Mexico; measure- 

 ments, etc. ); Auk, ii, 1885, 198 (Camp Lowell, Arizona; descr. young, etc.). 



P \_yranga'] al^estiixi] cooperi Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 318. 



Piranga rubra cooperi Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., viii, Sept. 2, 1885, 354. — 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 610a. — Morco.m, 

 Bull. Ridgw. Orn. CI., no. 2, 1887, 50 (Yuma, Arizona). — Scott, Auk, v, 

 1888, 30 (Tucson, Riverside, Florence, Mineral Creek, San Pedro Valley, 

 and Sierra Santa Catalina, Arizona, up to 4,000 ft.) . 



P [iranga'l rubra cooperi Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Bii'ds, 1887, 454 



PIRANGA HEPATICA Swainson. 

 HEPATIC TANAGER. 



Adult male in sninmer. — Pilcum dull scarlet or orano-e-verinilion, 

 brightest on forehead and superciliar}' region, duller toward hindneck; 

 back and scapulars light gra3'ish brown, tinged with red; lesser wing- 

 coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts more reddish than back (dull 

 brownish orange-red); wings gra3ash brown with pale reddish edgings 

 (nearly vinaceous-cinnamon on greater coverts and tertials, dilute 

 orange-rufous on primaries); tail light brown with edgings of light 

 dull orange-red; lores dusky grajash; auriculai's light reddish gray 

 (mi ^h like color of back and scapulars) with narrow shaft-streaks of 

 whitish anteriorly; under parts Hame scarlet, passing into pale reddish 

 gray on flanks; maxilla blackish, mandible grayish (light bluish gray 

 in lifeO; ii'is brown, legs and feet horn color in dried skins, bluish 

 gray in life. 



Adult male in autumn and vinter. — Plumage softer; back and scap- 

 ulars more strongly tinged with brownish gray; red of under parts less 



