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and neck bright violaceous .steel blue or glossy violet-black; rest of 

 upper parts dark steel blue, more or less tinged with violet, especially 

 on upper back; remiges and rectrices black edged with steel blue; 

 inner webs of secondaries with more than basal half abruptly white; 

 inner web of outermost rectrix most!}" or almost wholly white; second 

 rectrix with more than terminal half of inner web white; third with 

 much less white, sometimes very little; under parts of body, includ- 

 ino- chest, pure rich lemon or chrome yellow, the lower abdomen some- 

 what mixed with whitish; under tail-coverts white, the shorter ones, at 

 least, tinged with yellow; bill blackish terminally, grayish or w^hitish 

 (bluish gray in life?) basally; iris brown; legs and feet dusky in dried 

 skins; length (skins), 96.5-99.1 (97.8); wing. 53.0-56.9 (55.1); tail, 

 30.7-35.3 (33); exposed culmen, 6.9-7.4 (7.1); depth of bill at base, 

 4.6-5.1 (4.8); tarsus, 13.5-14.5 (13.7); middle toe, 10.2-10.4.^ 



Adult ft-male. — Forehead light olive-green, passing into slate-gray 

 on crown, occiput, and hindneck, the rest of upper parts dull olive- 

 green, brighter on rump and upper tail-coverts and on edges of larger 

 wing-coverts, remiges, and rectrices, the two last mainly dusky; under 

 parts, including throat, pale olive-yellowish, ])ecoming more strongly 

 and purely yellow on flanks; al)domen, anal region and under tail- 

 coverts white; ])ill, iris, and feet as in adult male; length (skins), 87.6- 

 94 (90.2); wing, 51.6-53.1 (52.3); tail, 29-29.7 (29.5); exposed culmen, 

 6.6-6.9; depth of bill at base, 4.1-4.3; tarsus, 12.7-13.2 (13); middle 

 toe, 9.9-10.2 (9.9)." 



Western Mexico, in States of Sonora (Alamos), Sinaloa (Mazatlan; 

 Plomosas), and Colima (Sierra Madre), and Territory of Tepic (San 

 Bias; Rosa Morada). 



Euphonia affinis (not Tanagm (Euphonia) affinis Lef^son) Lawrence, Mem. Bost. 



Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 273 (Sierra Madre, Colima; Mazatlan). 

 Euphonia godmani Brewster, Descr. Supposed New Birds from W. N. Am. and 



Mex., Jan., 1889, 90; Auk, vi, Apr., 1889, 90 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico; 



coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



EUPHONIA HIRUNDINACEA Bonaparte. 

 BONAPARTE'S EUPHONIA. 



Adult 'male. — Forehead and anterior portion of crown (back to 

 about middle of eyes) and entire under parts yellow, deepest on under 

 parts of body, where deep gam)>oge or Indian yellow, paler on forehead, 

 chin, throat, and under tail-coverts, where more lemon yellow; poste- 

 rior portion of crown, occiput, hindneck, auricular, suborbital, and 

 malar regions, back, scapulars, smaller wing-coverts, I'ump, and upper 

 tail-coverts plain dark steel blue, more or less tinged with or inclining 

 to violet on head and neck; remiges and rectrices black, with steel blue 

 edgings; inner webs of secondaries abruptly white for more than basal 



^ Four specimens. '^ Three specimens. 



