BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



535 



(8.89); depth of bill at base, 0.35-t>.()0 ((1.49); tarsu.s, l-i.99-17.78 

 (16.26); middle toe, 11.18-1*2.95 (11.68).^ 



Eastern Mexico (including Yucatan), north to Tamaulipas (Alta 

 Mira); eastern Guatemala (Peten district); Costa Rica to central 

 Colombia (Bogota). (Not yet recorded from British Honduras, Hon- 

 duTas, Nicaragua, Salvador, nor Guatemala except Peten district. ) 



Tiarix pusilla Swainsox, Philos. :Mag., new ser., i, 1827, 43S (Real del Monte, 

 Hidalgo, Mexico). 



E.luethial pusilla Cabasis, Mus. Hein., i, June, 1851, 146 (Mexico). 



Euethia pusilla Cabanis, Joiirn. fiir Orn., 1861, 1 (Costa Rica). 



Euetheia pusilla Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 142 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz).— Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Alajuela, Costa 

 Rica).— Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 247 (Costa Rica, both slopes, down to 2,000 

 ft.).— Cox, Auk, xii, 1895, 357 (near city of Orizaba, Vera Cruz). 



Phonipara pusilla Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1855, 159 (Bogota, Colombia); 

 1856, 304 (Cordova, Vera Cruz) ; 1859, 365 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 379 (Toton te- 

 pee, Oaxaca); 1864, 174 (City of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 106 (Bogota; 

 Orizaba, Vera Cruz).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 298 (Panama 

 R. R.); ix, 1868, 103 (San Jose and Sarchi, Costa Rica); ix, 1869, 201 (n. 

 Yucatan); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 20 (Dondominguillo, Oaxaca).— 

 Sclater and Salvix, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 352 (Lion Hill, Panama 

 R. R. ) ; 1875, 237 (San Cristobal, Venezuela) ; 1879, 507 (Retiro, Santa Elena, 

 and :Medellin, prov. Antioquia, Colombia).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1865, 169 (San Jose, Costa Rica).— Salvix, Ibis, 1866, 193 (Peten, 

 Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 142 (Santa Fe, Veragua); 1870, 

 190 (Chitra, Veragua) ; Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 224 (Bogota ).--Frantzi us, 

 Journ. flir Orn., 1869, 301 (Costa Rica).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., i, 1869, 552 (hot? and temperate regions. Vera Cruz).— Wyatt, Ibis, 

 1871, 328 (Bucaramanga, Colombia-).— Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1878, 58 (San Jose, Costa Rica); 1883, 444 (Yucatan).— Zeledon, Cat. Aves 

 de Costa Rica, 1882, 8.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 495, 499 

 (Volcande Irazii and San Jose, Costa Rica).— Salvix and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1885, 359. 



1 Thirteen specimens. 



Specimens from different localities average in measurements as follows: 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Fourteen adult males from Mexico . 

 Three adult males from Yucatan — 



Six adult males from Costa Rica 



One adult male from Veragua 



Five adult males from Panama 



Two adult males from Bogota 



FEMALES. 



Eight adult females from Mexico . . . 



One adult female from Yucatan 



Three adult females from Costa Rica 

 One adult female from Bogota 



Wing. 



51.82 

 52. 07 

 53.3-1 

 48.77 

 49.78 

 53.59 



50.04 

 50.80 

 50.29 

 50.80 



Tail. 



40.64 

 37. 85 

 40.39 

 37.08 

 37.59 

 38.86 



37.34 

 37.34 

 37.85 

 40.13 



Exposed. Depth 

 ^"I'^^Hatbase, 



9.65 

 9.14 

 9.05 

 9. 65 

 9.14 

 9.40 



8.89 

 9.40 

 9.14 



6.86 

 6.86 

 7.11 



6.86 

 6.60 



17. 27 

 17. 27 

 17.78 

 17.. 53 

 17.02 

 17.78 



17. 02 

 17.02 

 16.76 

 16.51 



Middle 



toe. 



12.45 

 11.68 

 12. 70 

 11.68 

 11.94 

 12. 19 



11.68 

 11.43 

 12.70 

 12.19 



