BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 577 



(Merida, Mugeres I., and Mecop I., Yucatan; Corosal, Brit. HondurasJ 

 Vera Paz, Guatemala; Belize, British Honduras; Medina and San Pedro, 

 Honduras; San Jose, Grecia, Turrialba, and Irazu, Costa Rica). — Cherrie, 

 Expl. Zool. Costa Rica, 1893, 28 (Lagarto, s. Costa Rica). 



\_SpermopMla] moreleti Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 28. 



SpermopMla moreletii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 506 (Rio Grande, 

 Texas, to Honduras); ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 54, figs. 2, 3; 

 Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 17, pi. 16, figs. 2, 3 (San 

 Diego and Monterey, Nuevo Leon); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 388. — 

 SuMicHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 551 (hot and temperate regions, 

 Vera Cruz).— Coue.s, Check List, 1873, no. 200.— RidcxWay, Proc. IT. S. Xat. 

 Mus., iii, 1880, 182, 232. 



[Sjicrmojmila] moreletii Coues, Key X. Am. Birds, 1872, 150. 



S.[}m-mophila'] moreleti Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 392. 



Sporophila moreleti Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Alajuela, 

 Cartago, and San Jose, Costa Rica). — Ridc^way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 

 1887, 580 (Truxillo, Honduras) . — Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 27 (w. Costa Rica, 

 San Jose to Pacific coast) . 



SpermopMla albigularis (not Loxia albogularis Spix) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 V, 1852, 124 (Texas).— Baird, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 330 

 (Texas). 



SpermopMla parva (not of Lawrence) Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. :\Ius., xii, 1S8S, 124 

 (Lometa Ranch, Texas; Cordova, Jalapa, and Orizaba, Vera Cruz). 



SporopMla morelletl sharpei Lawrence, Auk, vi, Jan., 1889, 53 (Lometa, Texas; 

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

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 602. — 

 Xehrling, Our Xative Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 226. 



S.[pcr)nopMla] morelleti sharpei Ridgway, Man. X. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 450. 



SPOROPHILA TORQUEOLA (Bonaparte). 

 CINNAMON-RXJMPED SEEDEATER. 



Adult male. — Pileum, lores, suborbital region, auricular reg-ion, 

 median portion of hindneck, back, scapulars, wings, upper tail-coverts, 

 tail, and band across upper part of chest, black; rump cinnamon; 

 under parts posterior to jugular band pale cinnamon or ochraceous- 

 buff; malar region, chin, and throat still paler butt'y, sometimes almost 

 white; sides of neck and spot at base of primaries (except three outer- 

 most) white; bill horn brown or dusky; legs and feet dusky horn 

 color; length (skins), 102.62-118.87 (107.95); wing, 52.83-56.90 (55.12); 

 tail. -1:5.1:7-49.28 (47.50); exposed culmen, 8.61-9.65 (9.14); depth of 

 bill at base (one specimen), 8.38; tarsus. 14.48-15.24 (14.99); middle 

 toe, 11.18-12.19 (11.68).' 



Immature male. — Similar to the adult male, but back, scapulars, 

 wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail grayish olive, or more or less mixed 

 with the same. 



Adult female.— Above plain light olive, becoming paler on rump; 

 beneath yellowish buily, paler on abdomen, deeper, and more or less 



^Xine specimens. 

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