698 BULLETIN no, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Ran(/t\ — Mexico (including Yucatan) and (ruatouiala; (luiana and 

 upper Amazon Valley. (Foui" species.) 



The three Mexican species of this l)eautiful genus inidude two tj^pes, 

 which (liller slightly in structural details and considerably in pattern 

 of coloration: on(> type (I'epresented by G. iieinisfiis hxmX G.franec.^ca') 

 having the tail longer than the wing", the tliroat and a considerable 

 part of the lateral rectrices white, and the auricular region bhu-k; the 

 other (i'(»presented liy (r. salhvi) having the tail shorter than the wing, 

 the throat and auricular region gray, and the lateral rectrices wholly 

 black. The single known South American species {G. pehelnl) com- 

 bines the white throat and black auriculars of the iirst-mentioned 

 group with the shorter tail and \\holl>^ Ijlack lateral rectrices of the 

 last ni(Mition(Ml. 



KKY Tl) Tiri5 SPECIES AND SUBSPECIES OF GRANATELLUS. 



<i. Back, etc., Muisli ,<;ray or grayisli Itlne; supra-auricular stripe pure white; breast 

 uniform reil. (Adult males. ) 

 A. Throat white; loral, suhorlntal, and auricular regions black. 



c. Tail witli lateral rectrices extensively white; larger (wing (10 or more, tail 67 



or more). 



'/. .\ complete Mack ci)llar across upper part of chest; smaller (wing averaging 



(ll.:!, tail <)7.s, tarsus 20). (States of Sinaloa, Colima, (iuerrero, and 



( )axaca, southwestern Mexico.) . . Granatellns venustus, adult male (p. 699) 



(/(/. No black cullar across upper part of chest; larger (wing averaging 66.4, 



laii 7S.], tarsus 21). (Tres Marias Islands, western Mexico.) 



Granatellns ftrmcescae, adult male (\). 700) 

 re. Tail entirely black; smaller (wing r>4, tail -I.')). (Western Brazil to I'.ritish 



Guiana.) Granatellus pelzelni, adult male (extralimilal )' 



/<.'. Throat, and loral, suborbital, and auricular regions, gray. {(rr(ni((tclliiK utilUvi.) 

 <•. Darker, the throat and sides of head slate-gray. (Vera Cruz, JNIexico, to 



Guatemala) Granatellus sallaei sallaei, adult male (]>. 701 ) 



cc. Paler, the throat and sides of head ash gray. ( Yucatan. ) 



Granatellus sallaei boucardi, adult male (p. 708) 

 '/'(. I'.ack not bluish gray or grayish blue; supra-aurieular stripe not ]iure white 

 (more or less buffy) ; breast buffv (touched with red in immature males). 

 ( Adult females and immature males.) 

 /'. Lateral rectrices extensively white. 



c. Smaller (wing 58, tall (57, tarsus 20); gray of njiper ])arts darker; forehead 

 nearly concolor with crown and occijiut. 



Granatellus venustus. adult female (j). 699) 

 <■'•. Ijarger (wing 62 or more, tail 7a oi' more, tarsus 21 or more); gray of upper 

 l>arts paler; forehead much more buffy than crown and occiput (or else 

 partly black). 



^ Granatellus pelzelni Sclater. 



(Irmidtellux veniiKhix (not of Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zo<)l. Soc. Loud., 1S59, 875. 



(h-ini(iteUux pelzehil Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Load., 1864, 606, 607, pi. 87, upper tig. 

 (Rio ]\Iadeira, w. Brazil; coll. P. L. Sclater; ex Natterer, manuscript). — 

 Pei,/eln, Orn. Bras., 1871, 216.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 370 

 (Rio IMadeira, lirazil; Camacusa, British Guiana). 



Granatiihix jtelzelniiVyxnu^, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 281, footnote. 



l^Jcterki'] pelzelni Gnw , Hand-list, i, 1869, 384, no. 5823. 



