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southward through Guatcmahi, British Honduras and Honduras to the 

 Segovia Kiver. 



Tanagra ahhm Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 2 (Mexico; coll. Berlin 

 Mus.) ; Journ. ii\r Orn., 1863, 57. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 

 235 (nionogr.; Cordova and Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Honduras; Guatemala), 

 303 (Cordova); 1858, 358 (Lake of Yojoa Honduras); 1859, 364 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz), 378 (Teotalcingo and Villa Alta, Oaxaca); 1864, 173 (valley of 

 Mexico); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 61; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 76 (Mexico); 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 162 (Oriza>)a and Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Belize, 

 Brit. Honduras; Cahabon, Coban, Chisec, Duenas, and Retalhulen, (iuate- 

 mala; San Pedro, Honduras). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 

 550 (hot and temperate regions Vera Cruz, up to 4,000 ft.). — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 836 (San Pedro, Honduras).— Law- 

 rence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 19 (GuicMcovi, Oaxaca). — Salvin, 

 Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 189 (Guatemala).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 278.— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 

 1886, 140 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 

 580 (Truxillo, Honduras), 585 (Segovia P., Honduras). — Richmond, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 631 (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas) .—Chapman, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 27 (Jalapa). 



[Tanagra] abbas Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 21. 



Tanagra (Aglaia) mcarms Lesson, Cent. Zool., 1831, 206, pi. 68 (Mexico). 



Tanagra vicarius Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 116 (Guatemala) ; 

 Consp. Av., i, 1850, 238; Rev. et Mag. de Zool., iii, 1851, 171; Note sur les 

 Tang., 1851, 22. — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 16, pi. 5, fig. 1, egg 

 (Duenas, Guatemala; descr. eggs). — Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 

 59 (Belize, British Honduras).— Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 111 (Lake Yojoa, 

 Honduras). 



Th[ranpis'] wcaruw Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 29 (Mexico). 



Genus SPINDALIS Jardine and Selby. 



Spindalis Jardine and Selby, Illustr. Orn., new ser., 1836, pi. 9. (Type, S. bili- 

 neatus Jardine and Selby', Tanagra nigrlcephala Jameson. ) 



Spizampelis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., x, 1866, 253. (Type, Tanagra jyrelrei 

 Lesson. ) 



Medium-sized to rather small Tanagers, with exposed culmen decid- 

 edly shorter than middle toe without claw, tarsus not more than one- 

 third as long as tail, and maxillary tomium distinctly sinuated; adult 

 males with head conspicuously striped with black and white, the 

 plumage otherwise varied with black, yellow, orange (sometimes 

 tawny or chestnut), and white; females with wing-coverts and second- 

 aries edged distinctly with whitish or pale olive. 



Bill rather short (distance from nostril to tip of maxilla less than 

 that from same point to anterior angle of eye), varying from stout to 

 rather slender, triangular in vertical profile; culmen distinctly (usuall}^ 

 strongly) convex ; gon^^s slightlv convex, shorter than length of maxilla 

 to nostril, about equal to or a little less than Avidth of mandible at 

 base; depth of l)ill at base less than distance from nostril to tip of 

 maxilla; maxillary tomium rather distinctly notched subterrainally, 



