536 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



IPhonipara^ pusiUa Sclater and Salvix, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 29. 

 \_Phompara jmsilla] var. pusilla Baird, BrewEr, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, ii, 1874, 93. 

 E.[iietheia] olivacea pusilla RinGWAV, ]\Ian. N. Am. ]5irds, 1887, 451. 

 Euefheia oJimcea pudlla Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 630 (Alta 



Mira, Tamaulipas).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 29 (Jalapa, 



Vera Cruz). 

 [Phonipara lepida.] Su])sp. <i Plionipdra jiusilla Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 



Mus., xii, 1888, 147. 

 FringiUa lepida (not of Linufeus) Lichtensteix, Preis-Verz. Mex. Yog., 1830, 



2 (Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 56). 

 Tiaris oUvaccua (not Emberiza oliuacca Linuieus) Cassix, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., iv, 



1848, 91. 



EUETHEIA CANORA (Gmelin). 

 MELODIOUS GRASSQUIT. 



Adult male. — Above olive-gTeen, becoming more or less dusky on 

 pileum; loral, orbital, auricular, and malar regions, chin, throat, median 

 line of foreneck (usualh^ concealed), and entire chest, deep black: 

 postocular stripe (bordering upper and posterior edge oi auricular 

 region) and conspicuous tuft of elongated feathers on sides of neck 

 (apparently confluent across middle of foreneck, but in reality sepa- 

 rated by a lilack underlying median stripe) bright yellow; under parts 

 posterior to chest gray, paler (sometimes whitish) on abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts, more or less tinged with brown or olive on flanks; 

 bill black; legs and feet brown; length (skins), 86.87-97.79 (91.95); 

 wing, 45.72-50.80 (49.02); tail, 34.29-40.64 (36.83); exposed culmen, 

 8.6^9.40 (8.89); depth of bill at base, 6.60-6.86 (6.73); tarsus, 14.73- 

 15.24 (15.13); middle toe, 10.41-11.18 (10.92).^ 



Adult female. — Similar to adult male, but black of head replaced 

 by chestnut, chest light gray, like rest of under parts, vellow of 

 neck duller, and pileum dull brownish-gra}-; length, (skins), 86.61- 

 90.42 (88.90); wing, 45.47-49.78 (48.01); tail, 33.53-36.58 (34.80); 

 exposed culmen, 8.38-9.14 (8.64); depth of bill at base, 6.35; tarsus, 

 14.73-15.24 (14.99); middle toe, 10.16-11.43 (10.67).' 



Cuba; accidental on Sombrero Key, Florida (one specimen, Apr. 17, 

 1888). 



[Loxia] canora Gmelix, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1788, 858 ("Nova Hispania;" ))asod 

 on Brovm-cheeked Grodnxik Brown, Illustr., p. 56, pi. 24; Latham, Synop., ii, 

 pt. i, p. 155). — Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 394. 



'iPhonipara'] canora Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, July, 1850, 494. — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 29. 



^ Nine specimens. ^ Six speciuiens. 



