BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 623 



(Chietla, Puebla). — Salvin and Gouman, Biol. Centr.-Aui., Aves, i, 1884, 

 335. — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 51. — Lantz, Tran.s. Kansas 

 Acad. Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 223 (Culiacan, Sinaloa). 

 {^Pheucticusl chrymppphif: Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27. 



PHEUCTICUS AURANTIACUS Salvin and Godman. 

 ORANGE-COLORED GROSBEAK. 



Siinilur to /*. cJinjHopeplux ]»ut the yellow replaced by orange, and 

 the feathers of the rump blackish basally. 



Adult male. — Head, neck, and under parts, except under tail-coverts, 

 luiiforni orange; rump paler and dullei% with the feathers ])lack ])eneath 

 the surface; under tail-coverts white; back, scapulars, wings, and tail 

 black, the first nuich broken along the median line l)y large longitudi- 

 nal spots of orange; innermost middle wing-coverts broadly tipped 

 (for al)()ut <s.Si> nnn.) with white, faintly margined with yellow; greater 

 coverts also tipped with white, broadly (for nearly 12.70 mm.) on 

 innermost feathers but rapidly diminishing toward the outermost ones, 

 where forming only a small spot at tip of outer web; tertials with a 

 large roundish or ovate spot of white at tips of outer webs; seconda- 

 ries broadl}' edged terminally with white; third to eighth primaries, 

 inclusive, with a large l)asal patcli of whit(>, about 17. TS nun. long, on 

 fourth jind lifth primaries, the outer wel) of first wholly l)lack; second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth primaries narrowly edged with white be3'ond 

 their emarginations; two outermost tail-feathers with a large white 

 patch at end of inner webs;^ upper tail-coverts Idack, broadly tipped 

 with white; thighs dusky, the feathers margined with olive-yellowish; 

 maxilla ))lack, mandil)le dusky (apparently plumbeous in life); legs 

 and feet dusky horn-coior; wing, 116.84; tail (much Avorn at tip), 

 101.60; cidmen, 25.01; depth of bill at base, 19.05; tarsus, 25.40; 

 middle toe, 20.32.' 



Immature male. — Al)ove nuich more varied with black, the feathers 

 of the head and hindneck l)lack medially and feathers of the rump 

 black tipped with orange. (Salvin and Godman.) 



Highlands of Guatemala (Volcan de Santa Maria, near Quzelte- 

 nango; Villanueva). 



PJieucticvs anranfiacHK Salvin and Godman, Ibis, ser. 6, iii, Apr., 1891, 272 

 (Volcan de Santa Maria, (niatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman) . 



PHEUCTICUS TIBIALIS Baird. 

 IRAZTJ GROSBEAK. 



Admits {se.ves alike). — Lores dusky; rest of head, neck, and chest 

 olive-yellow, the feathers with bases more or less dusk}^ those on the 



^The extent of these white tail-patches can not be measnred on account of the 

 badly worn condition of the rectrices. 



'■'Description from a specimen in the collection of the Rev. St. Th. Heyde, from 

 Villanueva, Guatemala. 



