BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



121 



bill at base, 8.1-9.7 (0.1); tarsus, 20.8-22.1 (21.0); middle toe, 15.2- 

 16.5 (16).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa, Cordova, 

 Valle Real, Motzorongo, etc.), Oaxaca (Playa Vicente), and Tabasco 

 (Teapa) southward through Central America to Costa Rica (Cartago, 

 Navarro de Cartago, Angostura, Orosi, San Carlos, Sarapiqui, etc.). 



Tanagra {Tachi/pJionux) mngninolentus Lesson, Cent. Zool., 1830, 107, pi. 39 

 (Mexico). 



T[iichyp]iorMs] sungulnolentus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 365. 



[Ramphoceliisi sanguinolentus "BotiAP arte, Consp. Av., i, 1850,242. 



R[}iampliocelus] sanguinolentus Cabals, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 26 (Mexico). 



Ramphocelus sangulnolentus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856,132 (monogr. ; 

 Valle Real and Cordova, Vera Cruz; Coban, Guatemala; Camalacan R., near 

 Truxillo, Honduras), 303 (Cordova); 1859,59 (Honduras and Guatemala), 

 364 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz) , 377 (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 

 1856,56; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 80 (Honduras; Vera Cruz). — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859,16 (coast Honduras); Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1867, 278 

 (Mosquito coast, Nicaragua); 1870,836 (San Pedro, Honduras). — Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 59 (Peten, Guatemala) . — ^Lawrence, Ann. Lye, 

 N. Y., ix, 1868, 99 (Navarro and Angostura, Costa Rica). — Frantzius, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 299 (Orosi, San Carlos, and Sarapiqui, Costa Rica). — 

 SuMiCHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 549 (hot region Vera Cruz, up 

 to 4,000 ft). —Salvin, Ibis, 1872,316 (Chontales, Nicaragua). 



IPhlogothraupisI sangumolenUi Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 21. 



Phlogothraujns snnguinolenta Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 55 (Orosi, 

 Costa Rica); Liste Ois. Guat., 1877, 33. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves., i, 1883, 285 (Belize and Belize R., British Honduras; near Coban, 

 Choctum, Cahabon, and Yzabal, Guatemala; etc.) . — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vi, 1883, 400 (Los Siibalos, Nicaragua; food). — Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. 



' Seven specimens. 



Average measurements of specimens from different localities are as follows: 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Four adult males from eastern Mexico (State of 

 Vera Cruz) 



Four adult males from Guatemala 



One adult male from southern Honduras (Segovia 

 R.) 



Two adult males from Costa Rica 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from eastern Mexico (State of 



Vera Cruz) 



Three adult females from Gnatemala 



One adult female from northern Honduras 



One adult female from Costa Rica 



Wing. 



90.2 



X8.4 



86.4 

 87.1 



88.1 

 87.6 

 88.4 

 83.1 



Ex- 

 Tail, j posed 

 culmen. 



81.3 

 78.5 



78.2 

 80 

 84.3 

 72.4 



l.'i.2 



15.5 



17 

 15.5 



15.7 

 15. 2 

 15.7 

 15 



Depth 

 of bill 

 at base. 



9.4 



8.6 



9.4 

 9.4 

 9.1 



8.1 



21.8 



21. S 



20. 8 

 22. 4 



21.6 

 21. 8 

 21.3 

 20.8 



Middle 

 toe. 



15.2 

 16.5 



15.7 

 16.8 



15.5 

 16.5 

 15.5 



I am not able to discover any color differences between extreme northern and 

 extreme southern specimens; the series of the latter is very small, however. 



