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Plateau of western Chiapas, .southwestern Mexico, and adjacent 

 parts of Oaxaca. 



Guiraca chiapensia Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, Mar. 24, 1898, HI (Oco- 

 zoacuantla, Chiapas, Mexico; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). 



Genus ZAMELODIA Coues. 



Hobia (not of Blyth, 1849) Re[CHEXb.\ch, Av. Syst. Nat., June 1, IS.'Sn, ]A. 78, 



fig. 14. (Type, (hiiraca melanocephala Swainson.) 

 Hediftneh'tt^ (not FleihjmcJa Sundevall, 1846) Cabanis, Miis. Hein., i, June, 



1851, 152. (Type, Lnxia huloriciana Linnseus. ) 

 ZameMJla CorES, Bull. Mutt. Orn. Club, v, Apr., 1880, 9S. (Type, Loxia ludo- 



Hciiind Linmeus. ) 



Stoutly i)uilt, large arboreal Fring-illidaj with under wing-coverts 

 yellow or rose pink, and the wings marked with white; nostrils 

 exposed; adidt males with breast rose red or tawn^^ the head ])lack 

 (or mostly so), and exterior rectrices extensiveh' white terminally. 



Bill short, conical, much deeper than broad at base, with superior and 

 lateral outlines very slightly convex, the gonys straight or very faintly 

 convex; culmen, from extreme base, decidedly shorter than tarsus; 

 gonys a little shorter than distance from nostril to tip of maxilla; 

 mandibular tomium very faintly convex to the toothed su))basal angle, 

 the maxillary tomium nearly straight to its basal deflection, distinctly 

 notched near tip. Nostril exposed, rather large, nearl}' circular, with 

 membrane above and behind it. Rictal bristles very inconspicuous. 

 Wing rather long (about four and a half to four and two-thirds times 

 as long as tarsus), pointed (ninth to sixth primaries longest, the ninth 

 longer than tifth, sometimes longer than sixth); primaries exceeding 

 secondaries by more than the length of the tarsus. Tail more than 

 three-fourths as long as wing, even or slightly rounded, the rectrices 

 broad and rounded at ends, more than half hidden by the upper coA'erts. 

 Tarsus about as long as middle toe with claw; outer claw reaching to 

 or slightly l)eyond base of middle claw, the inner a little shorter; hind 

 claw stout and strongly curved, shorter than its digit. 



Colmxition . — Adult males with head, wings, and tail black; two broad 

 bands across wing, patch at base of primaries, and terminal portion of 

 inner webs of outermost rectrices, white; under wing-coverts rose pink 

 or gaml^oge yellow. Adult females with wings and tail similar, but 

 black duller and white markings more restricted; other black portions 

 of male replaced l>3" brownish, streaked with dusky; under wing- 

 coverts safl^ron yellow or lemon yellow; breast streaked. 



Range. — Temperate North America (south to northern South Amer- 

 ica in winter). (Two species.) 



* "Von rjSvuEXrfi, von siissen, lieblichen Ge.s:ingen." 



