BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 13 



Euphone tibicen Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 2; Journ. fiir Orn. 



1863, 56 (Jalapa, Yera. Cruz; = nomen midum!) . 

 Pipra elegantmima Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 112 (Mexico). 

 Eluphonia] eleganlissima Gray, Gen. Birds, App., 18-19, 17.— Ridgway, Man. 



N. Am. Birds, 1887, 453. 

 {Evphonfi] elegcmtissima Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 232. 

 E\_uphona] elegantissima Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 31 (Mexico). 

 Euphoria elegantissima Sai^yadori, Atti Roy. Ac. Sci. Torino, iv, 1868,173 (Costa 



Rica). 

 Euphonia elegantissima Du Bus, Esquis. Orn., 1850, pi. 8 (San Pedro).— Sclater, 

 Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1851, 83 (monogr.); Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1855, 66 

 (sub Pipra galcrimlata) ; 1856, 272 (monogr.), 303 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); 

 1858, 303 (La Parada, Oaxaca) ; 1859, 364 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 378 (Juquila, 

 Oaxaca; descr. nest and eggs); 1864, 173 (Valley of Mexico); Synop. Av. 

 Tanagr., 1856, 98; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 56 (s. Mexico); Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xi, 1886, 62 (near City of Mexico; Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Oaxaca; ridge 

 above Calderas, Choctum, and Coban, Guatemala; Volcan de Cartago, Irazii 

 distr., and Turrialba, Costa Rica; Calovevora, Veragua).— Bairu, in Stans- 

 bury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 330 ("Texas"); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 304; ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 71, figs. 2, 3; Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 224.— Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 16 (Guate- 

 mala) .—Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 331.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 ix, 1868, 98 (San Jose, Costa Rica).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 

 1869, 550 (hot, temperate, and alpine regions. Vera Cruz).— Frantzius, Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1869, 297 (Costa Rica).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 185 

 (Calovevora, Veragua).— Duges, La Naturaleza, i, 1870, 140 (Guanajuato) .— 

 Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 54 (San Jose, Costa Rica; food; 

 song).— Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 160.— Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 256.— American Ornithologists' 

 Union, Check List, 1886, no. 606.— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 ix, 1886, 140 (Chachapa, Puebla; Jalapa, Vera Cruz) .— Zeledon, Anal. 

 Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 109 (Cartago and San Jose, Costa Rica).— 

 Cherrie, Auk, vii, 1890, 334 (San Jose, Costa Rica); ix, 1892, 24 (San Jose; 

 descr. abnormally colored male).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 

 1898, 27 (Jalapa). 



[Euphonia] ekgantissima Sclater and ^Ahxi-N, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 17. 



Euphonia coelestis Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1839, 42 ( Mexico ).-Du Bus, Esquis. Orn., 

 Orn., 1847, pi. 14. 



Pipra galericulata Giraud, Sixteen Sp. Texan Birds, 1841, fol. 21, pi. 5, fig. 2 

 ("Texas;" type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.; see Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1855, 66). 



EUPHONIA MUSICA (Gmelin). 



HAITIAN EUPHONIA. 



Adult 7nale.— Forehead yellow (dull lemon to saffron or dull cad- 

 mium), bordered behind by a bar of black or glossy blue-black; crown, 

 occiput, hindneck, and sides of neck plain azure blue, the feathers 

 dusky grayish beneath the surface; back, scapukrs, and upper tail- 

 coverts dark violaceous steel blue, or blue-black glossed with violet; 

 wings and tail black with dark violaceous steel bkie edgings; upper 

 rump lemon yellow, passing into ochraceous or tawny-ochraceous on 

 lower rump; lores black; suborbital, auricular, and malar regions, 



