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stripes deeper black (never streaked with brown), upper parts brighter 

 olive-green (especially the wings), edge of wing brighter yellow, bend 

 of wing 3^e]low. and chest deeper gray. 



Adult niale.—luQiigth. (skins), 153.67-173.99 (164.85); wing, 70.61- 

 81.79 (75.69); tail, 62.23-74.93 (6S.33): exposed culmen, 14.73-16.51 

 (15.75); depth of bill at base, 9.40-10.16 (9.65); tarsus, 27.43-29.97 

 (28.45); middle toe, 17.78-20.32 (18.80).' 



Adult female.— hQwgth (skins), 152.40-167.64 (156.97); wing, 70.61- 

 80.77 (73.41); tail, 62.99-71.63 (65.79); exposed culmen, 14.73-16.00 

 (15.49); depth of bill at base, 9.14-9.65 (9.40); tarsus, 26.67-29.21 

 (27.94); middle toe, 17.53-20.32 (19.05)."' 



Southern Honduras (Segovia River) to Veragua. 



Embernagra xtriaticeps (not of Lafres^naye, 1852) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 352 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R. ).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., 1865, 170 (Costa Rica).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866. 

 181 (Greytown, Nicaragua); ix, 1868, 103 (Angostura, Costa Rica). — Salvix, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 142 (Cordillera de Tole and Santa Fe, Veragua) ; 

 1870, 190 (Bugaba, Chitra, and Calovevora, Veragua) ; 1883, 422 (Panama).— 

 Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 301 (Costa Rica). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1878, 56 (San Carlos and Puntarenas, Costa Rica). — Zeledon, 

 Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 9; An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 112 (Las 

 Trojas, Pozo Azul de Pirris, Naranjo de Cartago, and Angostura, Costa 

 Rica).— RiDG WAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. 3Ius., x, 1887, 580, 587 (Truxillo and 

 Segovia R., Honduras). — Nutting and Ridgway, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 

 1883, 401 (Los Sabalos, Nicaragua). — Salvin and God.man, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1886, 414.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 762.— Cherrie, 

 Expl. Zool. Costa Rica, 1893, 29 (Palmar, Boruca, Terraba, and Buenos 

 Aires, s. Costa Rica) .-Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 493 (Rio 

 Escondido, Nicaragua; habits; descr. nest and eggs). 



\_Embernagra'] striaticeps Gray, Hand-list, ii,1870, 91, no. 7340. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 32. 



Emhernagra. conirostris (not Arremon conirostris Bonaparte) Sclater, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1856, 143 (David, Chiriqui); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 117, part (in 

 synonymy).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 332, part (Panama R. R. ). 



Arremonops richmondi Ridgway, Auk, xv, July (pub. May 13), 1898, 228 (Grey- 

 town, Nicaragua; U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Genus ARREMON Vieillot. 

 JrrcOTO/i Vieillot, Analyse, 1816, 32. (Type, Ta)tagra silens 'Boddaert.) 



Rather small, short-and-round-winged Fringillida?, closely similar in 

 external structural details to Ai'renionojjs^ but with pileum and sides of 

 head black, with or without white or gray median crown-stripe and 

 superciliar}' stripes; tail darker than back and wings or else bluish 

 gray or slate-gray. 



Bill moderate, conical, with nearly straight outlines (only the culmen 

 sometimes decidedly curved), its basal depth about e<[ual to length of 

 gonysand decidedly exceeding the Imsal width; culmen nearly straight 



' Eleven specimens. ^ Eight specimens. 



