44 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



depth of bill at base, 13.0T-15.49 (14.73); width of mandible at base, 

 12.10-12.95 (12.4.-)): tarsus. 19.05-21.59 (20.32); middle -toe. 10,00- 

 18.29 (17.27).^ 



Mountains of southern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Sierra San 

 Felipe), Vera Cruz (Orizaba, Las Vigas, Mirador). Puebla (Chalehieo- 

 mula), Mexico (Monte Alto). Durango (El Salto). etc. 



\_Hesperip}ioiiu~\ vespertina (not Fringilht rcupertind AV. Coojier, 1825) Bonaparte, 



Consp. Av., i, 1850, 505, part (Mexico). 

 Hespej-'iphona vcsperthin Scmichrast, Mein. Bost. 8oc. X. II., i, 1809, 550 (Monte 



Alto, near City of Mexico, May). — Coopek, Orn. Cal., 1870, 174, part 



(Mexico.) — Baird, Breaver, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 449, 



part.— CouES, Birds X. W., 1874, 104, part; Bull. Xutt. Omi. Club, iv, 1879, 



65, part (in synonymy). — Ridgway, Nom. X. Am. Birds, 1881, ho. 165, part. — 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 32, part (Vera Cruz). 

 Coccothraustes vespert'mus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 251 (Oriza])a, 



Vera Cruz).— Salvix, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 211 (Mexico).— Salyix and 



GoDMAX, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 426, chiefly (INIonte Alto and 



Orizaba). 

 l^CoccotJiraustrs'} rcsj'iertinus Sclater and Salyix, Xom. Ay. Xeotr., 1873, .S4, 2>art. 

 C.\_occof]iraui<te.<<'] vespertiniis 'Ridg^vxy, Man. X. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 387, part. 

 CoccotJ&mistes vesperthia Americax Orxithologists' Uxiox, Check List, 1886, 



no. 514, part (Mexico). 

 \^ITci^pertpliona rcspertinn'] Yar. monfnna Ridgayay, in Baird, BrcAYcr, and Ridg- 



Avay's Hist. X. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 449, part (mts. of Mexico). 

 CoccoilirdHxtes rcsjierfiiia niontaiKi ]Mearxs, Ank, Yii, July, 1890, 246, part (Mirador, 



Vera Cruz ) . 

 Coccothraustes respertinus montanus American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 



Auk, Yiii, Jan., 1891,85, part (Mexic5); Check List, 2d e<l., 1895, no. 514 o, 



part. 

 C.[occot]iraustes'] fespcrtlnus vwntitmis Ridgavay, Man. X. Am. I>irds, 2d ed., 1896, 



601, part (Vera Cruz). 

 Coccothraustes ves})ertinns mexlcant's Ciiapjiax, Auk, xiY, .July, 1897, 311 (Las 



Vigas, Vera Cruz, e. Mexico, alt. 8.000 ft.; Am. :\rus. X^at. Hist.). 



HESPERIPHONA ABEILLII (Lesson). 

 ABEILLE'S GROSBEAK. 



Adult male with head entirely ])lack (all round);, adult female with 

 pileum black and without dusky streak on sides of throat. 



Adult onale.—Head and neck all round uniform deep black; back, 

 scapulars and rump light olive-green, more yellowish on rump; under 

 parts (except throat and foreueck) olive-j^ellow, paler posteriori}' ; 

 thighs black, the feathers more or less margined with light olive or 

 grayish; wings, tail, and upper tail-coverts black; innermost second- 

 aries (tertials) and corresponding greater wing-coverts mostly grayish; 

 fourth to seventh primaries sometimes with a white spot at base; 

 bill olive-graj'ish, with tip and tomia yellowish; feet light brownish; 



' Four sjiecimens. 



