BIRDS OF NORTH AISTD MIDDLE AMERICA. 45 



leng-th (skius), 105.10-177.80 (170.69); wing-, 100.33-106.17 (103.63); 

 tail, 59.69-63.50 (61.98); culmeu, 20.32-21.59 (20.83); depth of bill at 

 base, 14.99-16.51 (15:49): width of mandible at base, 13.97-14.73 

 (14.48); tarsus, 19.81-20.57 (20.32); middle toe, 15.75-17-27 (16.51)\ 



Adult female. — Entire pileum, including- nape, uniform black; lores, 

 anterior portion of malar region, and chin black or dusk}'; sides of 

 head (except as described), back, scapulars, and rump grayish olive- 

 greenish; under parts light yellowish olive, washed with brownish 

 buffy posteriorly, the throat dull buily whitish or pale grayish; wings 

 and tail as in adult male, but the blaclc duller; iiuiermost primaries 

 always (?) with a white spot at base, and inner webs of one to three 

 outermost rectrices with a more or less extensive white terminal spot, 

 the upper tail-coverts also sometimes tipped with white; length (skins) 

 163.32-182.88 (172.21); wing, 101.60-104.14 (102.87); tail. 59.69-62.23 

 (60.96); culmen, 19.30-22.35 (20.57); depth of ))ill at base 14.99-17.78 

 (16.00); width of mandible at base. 13.72-15.49 (14.48): tarsus, 19.56- 

 20.83 (20.32); middle toe, 15.49-16.76 (16.26).- 



Highlands of southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa, 

 Orizaba), Puebla (Huachinango), and Mexico, and Guatemala (Dueiias, 

 Coban, San Geronimo, Volcan de Fuego, etc.).'' 



Ouiraca abeilUl 'Lessos, Rev. ZooL, 1839, 41 (Mexico). 



\_Hesperiphona'] abeilUi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 505. 



Hesperlphuna abeillil Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H.,i, 1869,550 (temperate 



region, Vera Cruz). — Coues, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 67, footnote 



(synonymy). 

 Hesperiphona abeilLvl Sharps, Cat. Birds Brit. Mug.,xii, 1888, 34 (near City of 



Mexico; Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Coban, San Geronimo, and Volcan de Fuego, 



Guatemala) . 

 H. [esperiphoiial abeillil Baird. Brewer, and Ridgway, His^t. X. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, 449. 

 Coccothrausies abeillii Sci^xTKRand SxLvis, Ibis, i, 1859, 19 (Guatemala). — Sllater, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 365 (Jalapa); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 123 



(Jalapa). — Salvin, Ibis, 1861, 352 (Volcan de Fuego, Chilasco, and Coban, 



Guatemala) ; 1866, 206. 

 [Coccothraustes'] abeillii Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 87, no. 7289. 

 C. [occothraustes'] abeillii Ridgway, Man. N . Am. Birds, 1887, 387. 

 ICoccothraustes'] ubeillsei Sclater and Salvix, Xom. Av. Xeotr., 1873, 34. 

 Coccothraustes abeillxi Salvix and Godiiax, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 426. — 



Chapmax, Bull. Am. Mus. X. H., x, 1898, 30 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; habits). 

 Coccothraustes abeillei Laxtz, Trans. Kans. Ac, 1896-97 (1899), 222 (Coatepec, 



Oaxaca) . 



^Five specimens; four from Vera Cruz and Puebla; one from Guatemala. 



^ Five specimens; four from Huachinango, Puebla (January), and one from Dueiias, 

 Guatemala (September). 



^The single adult male from Guatemala examined is appreciably less greenish 

 olive-yellow on the back, and the rump and under parts are decidedly deeper yel- 

 low than in any of the four Mexican specimens with which it has been compared. 

 The single Guatemalan female examined has a larger and stouter bill than any of the 

 Mexican females, and the under parts are more strongly washed with buffy brownish. 

 A larger series may, however, show that these differences are not constant. 



