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Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cosamaloapan; Cordova), 

 Oaxaca(Choapam; Teotalcingo; Playa Vicente), and southward through 

 Guatemala and British Honduras to northern Honduras (Santa Ana). 



Pityhis poliogaster Du Bus, Bull. Ac. Roy. Belg., xiv, pt. 2, 1847, 105 (Guatemala; 

 Brussels Mus.); Rev. Zool., 1848, 245; Esquis. Orn., 1845?, pi. 22.— Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1856, 66 (monogr. ; Cosamaloapan and Cordova, Vera 

 Cruz; Guatemala), 302 (Cordova); 1859, 376 (Choapam, Teotalcingo, and 

 Playa Vicente, Oaxaca) ; Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 4 (monogr.); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 99 (Choctum, Guatemala; Mexico); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 

 1886, 307, part (Mexico; Choctum, Kamkhal, and Yaxcamnal, Guatemala; 

 Belize, British Honduras). — Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 32 (Coban, Vera 

 Paz, Guatemala). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 836 

 (San Pedro, Honduras).— Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 548 

 (tierra caliente. Vera Cruz, up to 3,350 ft.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 333, part (Mexican, Guatemalan, British Hon- 

 duras, and Honduras references and localities). 



P.[ityl7is'] poliogaster Gray, Gen. Birds, App., 1849, 16. — Sclater and Salvin, 

 Exotic Orn., pt. xi, 1869, 168, part (s. Mexico; Guatemala). 



\^PUylus\ poliogaster ^C'L\.T'ER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 26, part (Mexico; 

 Guatemala) . 



Pity lus flavo-ciner ens GAfifn-^, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1848, 47 ("South Amer- 

 ica;" quotes "Loxia canadensis Linn., var. A., Lath., Gen. Hist., v, 282"). 



[Caryothnm-stes'] episcopus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 504 (Cosamaloapan, 

 Vera Cruz; Berlin Mus., ex Fringilla ('p^co^ws Lichtenstein, manuscript). 



CARYOTHRAUSTES POLIOGASTER SCAPULARIS Ridgway. 

 LESSER BISHOP GROSBEAK. 



Similar to C. p. poliogajster but smaller, and with the scapulars and 

 lower back yellowish olive-green, like upper back, instead of slate- 

 gray like rump. 



Adult male.— l^ength (skins), 152.40-175.26 (161.04); wing, 83.31- 

 87.88 (85.34); tail, 64.01-70.87 (68.33); exposed culmen, 16.00-16.76 

 (16.51); depth of bill at base, 12.4.5-13.21 (12.95); tarsus, 20.07-20.83 

 (20.57); middle toe, 13.97-14.73 (14.48).^ 



Adult female.— "Length (skins), 144.78-172.72(160.02); wing, 82.55- 

 88.39 (85.34); tail, 59.44-71.88 (66.55); exposed culmen, 15.24-17.27 

 (16.26); depth of bill at base, 12.19-12.95 (12.70); tarsus, 20.07-21.34 

 (20.83); middle toe, 13.21-15.24 (14.48).' 



Southern Honduras (Segovia River) to Isthmus of Panama. 



Pitylus poliogaster (not of Du Bus) Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1864, 352 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R.).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 

 141 (Santa Fe, Veragua) ; Ibis, 1872, 317 (Chontales, Nicaragua) . — Lawrence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 102 (Angostura, Costa Rica). — Nutting, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 400 (Los Sdbalos, Nicaragua).— Sclater, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 307, part (Chontales; Tucurriqui, Costa Rica; Santiago 



^ Five specimens. ''Six specimens. 



