BIKDS OF MIDDLE AND NORTH AMERICA. 349 



Zool. Soc. Lond., 1874, 329 (w. Peru). — Taczanowski, Proo. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1874, 521 (Lima, Maraynioc, and Punamarca, w. Peru); 1879, 230 

 (Tambillo and Pacasmayo, n. Peru); 1880, 199 (Cutero, n. Peru); Orn. du 

 Perou, ii,'l884, 45.— (?) Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1876, 353 (Cor- 

 vico, Moho, and Conima, Lake Titicaca, Peru). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1878, 57 (San Jose, Cartago, Sarzero, and Volcan de Irazu, Costa 

 Rica; descr. eggs). — Salvin and Godman, Ibis, 1879, 200 (Atenques, prov. 

 Santa Marta, Colombia, 2,700 ft.); 1880, 122 (San Sebastian, prov. Santa 

 Marta) ; Biol. Centr. -Am. , A ves, i, 1884, 370, part (Mexican, Central American, 

 and Colombian localities and references). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 

 1882, 9; An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Alajuela, Santa Maria de 

 Dota, Cartago, San Jose, etc., Costa Rica). — Berlepsch and Taczanowski, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 551 (Cayandeled, w. Ecuador); 1884, 294 

 (Cechce, w. Ecuador).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 610, part 

 (Mexican, Central American, and Columbian references and localities; Are- 

 quipa, Peru?; Cuenca, w. Ecuador). — Berlepsch and Stolzxmann, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1892, 377 (Lima and lea, Peru). — Salvadori and Festa, 

 Boll. Mus. Zool., etc., Torino, xv, 1899, 26 (Pun, e. Ecuador?; Cuenca, 

 Valle del Chota, Lloa, Valle del Chillo, and Quito, centr. Ecuador) . 



[Zonotricltia] pileata Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 93, no. 7389, part. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 31, part. 



"Zonutnchia" pileaia RiDtiWAY, Proc. V. S. Xat. Mus., v, 1883, 496, 500 (Volcau 

 de Irazu and San Jose, Costa Rica). 



Zonotnchia capensis costaricensis Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., iii, no. 2, Sept. 

 29, 1891, 375 (San Jose, Costa Rica; Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.). 



BRACHYSPIZA CAPENSIS INSULARIS Ridgway. 

 CURACAO SPARROW. 



Similar to B. c. perurhutu but smaller, with the bill larg-er and 

 relatively longer; coloration paler, with head-.stripe.s purer gray, 

 under parts purer white, and the black patches on sides of foreneck 

 always(0 distinctly separated: length (skins), 124,4(5-134:. (32 (128.78); 

 wing, 64.01-67.81 (65.02): tail. 55.88-60.96 (.58.67): exposed culmen, 

 12.45-12.70; depth of bill at base, 7.37-8.13 (7.62); tarsus, 20.32- 

 21.08 (20.57): middle toe, 13.72-15.24 (14.73).^ 



Islands of C'urayao and Aruba. Caril)bean Sea. 



Zonotrichia plleata (not Einheriza pUeuta Boddaert) Peters, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1872, 115 (Curasao). — Berlepsch, Journ. fiir Orn., Jan., 1892, 82 (Curagab) . — 

 Hartert, Ibis, 1893, 295 (Aruba), 314 (Curasao; descr. nest and eggs). — 

 Robinson, Flying Trip to Troi?ics, 1895, 165 (Curasao). 



Brachyspiza cape7isis insularis RiVGWAY, Auk, xv, Oct., 1898, 321.(Curayao; U.S. 

 Nat. Mus.). 



Genus MELOSPIZA Baird. 



Melospiza Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, June 17, 1858,478. (Type, Fringilla 



melodia Wilson.) 

 Helospiza Baird, Rep. Pacitic R. R. Surv., ix, June 17, 1858, 478, in text. (Type, 



Fringilla palustr is Wilson, = i<'. georgiana Latham.) 



^ Four adult males from Curasao. No specimens seen by me from Aruba. Accord- 

 ing to Dr. Hartert (Ibis, 1895, 295), the single Aruba specimen examined by him 

 "has a very stout bill, but otherwise agrees entirely with those from Curasao." 



