BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 445 



lPy)-gif<oma^ leacote Sclatek and Salvix, Nt)ni. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33, part. 

 Pyrgimma leucotis Zeledox, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 9. — Chekkie, Auk, ix, 



July, 1892, 249 (San Jose, Costa Rica; descr. young). 

 [Etnbernagra'] leucotis Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 92, no. 7352. 



MELOZONE OCCIPITALIS (Salvin). 

 SALVINS GROTJND SPARROW, 



Siiiiiltir to 2f. leucotis but tail longer, pileuiii with a broad ash gray 

 mecliau stripe, a distinct stripe of yellow al)ove the auriculars (contin- 

 ent with yellow on side of neck), lower foreneck white, passing into 

 ash gray laterally, sides more extensively gray, and black on chest 

 much more restricted, forming a well delined though irregular central 

 spot; length (skins), 175.01-188.21 (180.09); wing, 76.45-83.31 (80.01); 

 tail, 72.39-81.79 (75.95); exposed eulmen, 14.99-15.24 (15.11); depth 

 of bill at base (one specimen), 9.91; tarsus, 26.16-28.45 (27.43); mid- 

 dle toe, 19.81-20.07 (19.94).^ 



Highlands of Guatemala (Volcan de Fuego, Volcan dc Agua, Savana 

 Grande, etc.). 



Chaiiiaospha torquula {w\A Pipilo tonjaatiis Du Bus) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 

 1860, 274 (Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala). 



Pijrgisonia leucote (not Melozone leucotis Cabanis) Salyix, Ibis, 1866, 205 (Guate- 

 mala). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 326, part (Guate- 

 mala); Exotic Orn., 1868, 128, part, pi. 64, fig. 2. 



[Pl/rgisoma'] Icncote Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Xeotr., 1873, 33, part 

 (Guatemala). 



Pgrgisoma occipitale Salvin, Ibis, 4tli ser., ii, Oct., 1878, 446 (Volcan de Fuego, 

 Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman). — Salvin and Godmax, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 404 (Volcan de Fuego, Volcan de Agua above San 

 Diego, and Savana Grande, Guatemala). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 404. 



GeiiLis ARREMONOPS Ridgway. 



Arremonops Ridgw.\.y, ^Man. X. Am. Birds, 2d ed., [Nlar., 189(), 434, 605. (Type, 

 Emhemagra rufivirgatu Lawrence.) 



Small or medium-sized semi-terrestrial Fringillida3 with tail shorter 

 than wing; wing short and much rounded (wing-tip shorter than distance 

 from nostril to tip of maxilla,, and outermost primary shorter than 

 secondaries); upper parts plain olive-greenish, the pileum three- 

 striped (lateral stripes brown or black., median stripe gray or olive); 

 edge of wing yellow; under parts whitish (more or less butfy or 

 grayish anteriorly and laterally), without darker band across chest; 

 tail olive-green, like back and wings; superciliary stripe, and auricular 

 and orbital regions gray. 



Range. — Southern Texas to Venezuela and Ecuador. 



^ Three specimens, two of them males, the other with sex undetermined. 



