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(Immature males lirst assume j-ellow feathers on the throat and median 

 under parts, the whole under surface becoming yellow before the black 

 begins to appear. This is first seen on the head, which becomes e:cactly 

 as in the adult male before the color of the back, wings, etc., changes 

 from olive-green.) 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Tampico; AltaMira), 

 Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; Orizaba), Puel)la (Rinconada), Oaxaca 

 (Playa Vicente; Guichicovi), and Yucatan (Chichen-Itza), and south- 

 ward to Costa Rica (San Jose; Naranjo de Cartago; San Juan; Turri- 

 alba, etc.); Chiriqui?; Veragua?. 



Euphonia hinmdinacea Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 117 (Guate- 

 mala; = immature male) ; Nuov. Ann. Se. Nat. Bologna, ii, 1839, 345 (Mexico) ; 

 Consp. Av., i, 1850, 232.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1854,98, pi. 65, 

 fig. 1 (Guatemala; Chiriqui; Veragua; Colombia?); 1856, 278 (mon'ogr.), 

 303 (Guatemala; Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1859, 364 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 378 

 (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca) ; Tanagr. Cat. Spec, 1854, 14, 16; Synop. Av. Tanagr., 

 1856, 104; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 59 (Coban, Vera Paz, Guatemala; Mexico; 

 "New Granada"); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 75 (Orizaba, Vera Craz; 

 n. Yucatan; Corosal and Belize, Brit. Honduras; pine ridge of Poctun and 

 Choctum, Vera Paz, Guatemala; San Pedro, Honduras; Costa Rica).— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 16 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond^, 

 1870, 836 (San Pedro, Honduras).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1865, 

 172 '(Turrialba, Costa Rica).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 98 

 (Turrialba and San Juan, Costa Rica); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., iio.^4, 1876, 

 18 (Guichicovi, Oaxaca).— Frantzi us, Journ. fur Orn., 1869, 297 (Costa 

 Rica).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H , i, 1869, 550 (tierra caliente. 

 Vera Cruz).— Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 443 (Yucatan).— 

 Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 180 (Guatemala).— Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am. Aves, i, 1883, 261 (Coban, Cajabon, etc., Guate- 

 mala; Hato Viejo, Nicaragua, etc.).— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa 

 Rica, i, 1887, 109 (San Jose, Naranjo de- Cartago, and Monte Redondo de 

 San Jose, Costa Rica) .— Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 24 (San Jos^, etc., Costa 

 Rica; descr. nest and eggs).— Richmond, Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 

 488 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua); xviii, 1896, 631 (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas).— 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., viii, 1896, 297 (Chichen-Itza, Yucatan; 

 song).— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 223 (Rinconada, 

 Puebla). 

 E[tiphoni(t^ Urundmacea Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 367. 

 iEuphonki:] hirundinacea Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 78, no. 7145.— Sclater and 



Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 18. 

 Phonasca hirundinacea Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 334 (Costa Rica). 

 Euphonia lanm-ostris (not of Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny) Sclater, Jardine's 



Contr. Orn., 1851, 86, part (Chiriqui). 

 (?) Phonasca gnafho Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., Sept., 1860, 335 (Costa Rica; coll. 



Berlin Mus.); 1861, 90. 

 (■?) Euphonia gnatho Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 98 (Costa Rica).- 

 Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 297 (Costa Rica).— Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am. Aves, i, 1883, 262 (Tempate, Gulf of ^icoya, Costa Rica).— 

 Scl.^ter, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 76 (Tempate and Turrialba, Costa 

 Riea) .—Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 109 (Costa Rica). 

 (?) \_Euphonia:] gnatho Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 18. 



