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Southern Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Suchapam) and Tabasco 

 (Frontera), to Isthmus of Panama; Colombia; western Ecuador? 



(?) Sp.\_orophUa] oihello Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, Aug., 1850, 498 (Central 

 America; Berlin Mus.). 



Ori/zoborusfunereus ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., LS59, 378 (Suchapam, Oaxaca, 

 s. Mexico; coll. P. L. Sclater) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 102 (Oaxaca).— Sc la- 

 ter and Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 398 (Choctum, Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1879, 506 (Medellin, prov. Antioquia, Colombia; crit. ; descr. nest 

 and eggs). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 141 (Santa Fe, Veragua; 

 crit.) ; 1870, 189 (Calovevora, Veragua). — Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 

 1882, 8; An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Costa Rica) .— Ridgway and 

 Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1884, 400 (Los Siibalos, e. Nicaragua). — 

 (?)TACzANowsKiand Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885,117 (Babahoyo, 

 w. Ecuador). — ^Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 349. — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 3Ius., xii, 1888, 81 (Honduras; Minca and Medellin, 

 Colombia?; Nanegal, Bal)ahoyo, and Balzar I\Its., w. Ecuador?, etc.). — 

 Cherrie, Expl. Zool. Costa Rica, 1893, 28 (Boruca, s. Costa Rica). — Rich- 

 mond, Proc. V. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 491 (Greytown and Rio Escondido, 

 Nicaragua; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 

 xiii, 1899, 102 (Chirua and La Concepcion, prov. Santa Marta, Colombia) ; 

 Auk, xviii, 1901, 32 (San Miguel I., Bay of Panama). 



lOryzoborus fanereiis Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 28. 



[Goniaphea^ funerea Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 104, no. 7556. 



('?)Oryzoborus scthiops Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 88 (Nanegal, w. P]cua- 

 dor; coll. P. L. Sclater); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 102 (Nanegal and Babahoyo, 

 w. Ecuador; Minca, Colombia). 



Oryzoborns fdJdojJS (not of Sclater?) Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1861, 333 

 (Lion Hill, Panama R. R. ). 



(?) [Goniaphea] lethiops Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 104, no. 7555. 



Oryzoborns salrini Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, Apr. 11, 1884, 401, foot- 

 note (Los Siibalos, e. Nicaragua; U. S. Nat. Mus. ;=female). 



Genus GUIRACA Swainson. 



Guiraca Swainson, Zool. Journ., iii, 1827, 350. (Tyjoe, Lo.da cxrulca Linneeus.) 

 Coccoborns Swainson, Classif . Birds, ii, 1837, 277. (Tyjie, Loxia cverulea LinrnTeus. ) 



Medium-sized Fring-illidte with the bill rather large, conical, com- 

 pressed, with outlines nearly straight; wing rather long and pointed 

 (ninth primar}" longer than lifth); tail about three-fourths as long as 

 wing, nearh' even or very slightly rounded; adult males blue with 

 two chestnut or tawny wing-bands; female and young plain brownish 

 (paler l)elow) with one or two tawny wing-bands. 



Bill stout, compressed-conical, with superior and lateral outlines 

 nearly straight and gon3\s quite straight; culmen very slightly convex 

 terminalh\ genth^ arched at base, distinctly ridged; mandible decid- 

 edly deeper than maxilla, its tomium straight to a little past the 

 middle, where deflected with a rounded (neither angulated nor toothed) 

 turn; maxillary tomium slightly notched near tip, nearly straight to 

 about the middle, then deflected oliliquely to the rictus, the angle 

 much anterior to the nasal fossae. Nostril exposed, rather large, 



