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wing"-ooverts, and edges of inner webs of secondaries uniform salmon- 

 pink; bill more or less dusky in dried skins, in life with basal half 

 grayish blue or plumbeous, the terminal portion dusk}- legs and feet 

 dusky (grayish or grayish blue in life?). 



Iiiiiiititure male and adult female. — Head (all round), foreneck, and 

 chest uniform black; upper parts (except pileum) plain olive-green, 

 ])righter or more yellowish on hindneck, duller on wings and tail, the 

 middle and greater wing-coverts usually very narrowly tipped with 

 pale yellowish; under parts (posterior to chest) yellowish olive-green 

 or olive-yellow, sometimes narrowly streaked with grayish olive or 

 dusk}', the flanks more grayish olive; under tail-coverts light grayish 

 olive margined with pale j^ellow; axillars and under wmg-co verts 

 uniform clear light chrome or canary yellow; bill and feet as in adult 

 male. 



Adult male.— h^n^th (skins), 204.^:7-209.55 (206.76); wing, 102. 36- 

 107.95 (105.11); tail, 92.96-102.11 (96.27); exposed culmen, 18.54- 

 20:07 (19.30); depth of bill at base, 12.95-14.18 (13.72); tarsus, 22.86- 

 23.88 (23.62); middle toe, 16.26-17.02 (16.76).^ 



Adult female.— ljeA\gt\i (skins), 203.20-215.90 (210.06); wing, 99.57- 

 105.92 (102.36); tail, 89.92-96.27 (92.96); exposed culmen, 18.03-19.56 

 (18.80); depth of bill at base, 12.70-13.46 (13.21); tarsus, 22.86-24.89 

 (24.38); middle toe, 15.49-17.27 (16.51). ^ 



Eastern Mexico, in states of Puebla (Metlalto3aica), Vera Cruz 

 (Papantla; Misantla), San Luis Potosi (Valles; Jilitla), andTamaulipas 

 (Tampico; Alta Mira; Victoria). 



[Tanucini] celaeiio Lichtenstein, Trei-s-Verz. Mex. Yog., 1831, 2 (Mexico; see 

 Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 57). 



Pitylus celxno Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loiid., 1856, 65 (inonogr. ; Papantla, 

 Vera Cruz); 1864, 174 (Valley of Mexico); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 3 

 (monogr. ) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 99 (Mexico) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 

 305. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883,332, pi. 24; Ibis, 

 1889, 238 (Misantla, Vera Cruz; Tampico and mts. bet. Ciudad Victoria and 

 Montemorelos, Tamaulipas).— Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 

 631 (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas). 



[Pili/lus'] calseno Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 26. 



Pill/las atro-2nirpuratus Lafresnaye, P..ev. Zool., 1838, 224 (Mexico). 



\^Pn-iporphyrus] airo-purpuratus Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i, 1850, 503. 



Piti/lu-s atro-olivaccus Lafresnaye, Rev. Zool., 1838, 224 ( Mexico ;=female). 



[Caryothraustes'] atro-olivaceus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 503. 



Pyranga meaicana Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1839, 41 (Mexico). 



P-lyrcmgci] mexicana Gr.vy, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 364. — Bonaparte, Consp. Av., 

 i, 1850, 241. 



mens the under parts are almost unbroken red. Occasionally the middle and greater 

 wing-coverts are narrowly tipped with light red or pink, producing two more or less 

 distinct bands across the wing. These variations are found among specimens from 

 the same locality, and they do not appear to be seasonal. 

 ^ Six specimens, 



