732 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



broadl}' tipped with white: ' under parts of body vermilion red, the sides 

 and flanks parti}' slate-gray; under tail-coverts blackish slate or slate- 

 black, l)roadly tipped with white; axillars and under wing-coverts 

 white; bill, legs, and feet black or brownish black; iris brown; length 

 (skins), 130-134 (131); wing, 62.5-65 (63.5); tail, 69-72 (70.4); exposed 

 culmen, 8-9 (8.4); tarsus, 18-19 (18.2).' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but forehead and anterior 

 portion of crown slate color, each feather with a central spot of black; 

 throat, etc., duller black or blackish slate; red of under parts slightly 

 paler, more pinkish; length (skins), 126-134 (133); wing, 61-65 

 (62.9); tail, 68-72 (70.2); exposed culmen, 7.5-8.5 (8); tarsus, 18.5-19 

 (18.9).' 



Youvg, jirsit plumage. — Above, including entire pileum, uniform 

 sooty slate-color; under parts similar but paler, the median portion of 

 chest, ])reast, and abdomen dull chestnut, fading into pale cinnamon or 

 cinnamon-buft' on center of abdomen; wings and tail as in adults, but 

 middle and greater wing-coverts indistinctly ti^jped with brownish. 



Highhmds of Mexico, in States of Oaxaca, Vera Cruz. Mexico, 

 Puebla, Zacatecas, Sinaloa. Chihuahua (Jesus Maria), etc. 



Selophaga miniata Swainson, Fhiloy. Mag., new ?er., i, 1827, .368 (\''alladoIid, 

 Mexico); Isi^, 1834, 784; Anim. in Menag., 1838, 293.— Sclater, Pror. Zoo). 

 Soc. Lond., 1856, 292 (Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1858, 299 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 

 1859, 363 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 374 (Cinco Seiiores and Totontepee, Oaxaca); 

 1864, 173 (Valley of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 37 (Mexico).— Baird, 

 Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 299; ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am. ), pi. 77, fig. 1; 

 Cat. N.Am. Birds, 1859, no. 219; Review Am. Birds, 1865, 259 (n. e Mexico; 

 Jalapa; Orizaba). — Sujuchrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 546 (temperate 

 and alpine regions, Orizaba). — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgwav, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 322, part (Mexico). ^Lawrence, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 

 1874, 270 (Sierra Mailre near Mazatlan; habits); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 

 4, 1876, 16 (Sierra Madre near Zapotitlan).— Salvin, Ibis, 1878, 308, part 

 (Mexico; monogr. ). — Coces, Birds Col. Val., 1878, 335 (synonymy). — 

 Saiain and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 181, part (Mexican 

 localities). — RiDCiWAv, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 130. — Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 418 (near City of Mexico; La Parada, Oaxaca; 

 .Jalapa, Vera Cruz). — Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 137 

 (Puebla). ^American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 689. — 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 40 (Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 8,000 ft.). 



>S[ct<ii)}ia(ja] rmniata Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1846, 265. — Ridgway, INIan. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1887, 530. 



[Setopltagd} miniata Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 240, no. 3524. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 10, part (Mexico). 



MuHcicapa larrata Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1830, 2 (Mexico); see 

 Journ. fiir Orn.-, 1863, 58. 



^This white occupies about the terminal half of the outer web on the outermost 

 rectrix, and extends for 20 to 30 mm. from tip on inner web; the white on the third 

 rectrix varies from 10 to J5 nmi. in length; occasionally there is a small white spot 

 at tip of the fourth rectrix. 



^ Five specimens. '■ Fdur specimens. 



