6G2 



BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



25.91 (22.35); depth of bill at base, 13.21-15.40 (13.97); tarsus, 

 27.69-30.23 (28.96); middle toe, 19.81-22.61 (21.34).' 



Southern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Alta Mira), Vera Cruz, 

 Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco and Yucatan, and south to Costa Rica. 



Tanagra {Saltator) atriceps Lesson, Cent. ZooL, 1830, 208, pi. 69 (Mexico; Parsi 

 Mus.). 



S.[altator} atriceps Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 363. — Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1851, 

 142 (Mexico). 



ISiiltator^ atriceps Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 488 (Mexico). — Gray, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1870, 74, no. 7073 (s. Mexico). — Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. 

 Neotr., 1873, 26. 



Saltator atriceps Sclater, Proc. Zool. tSoc. Lond., 1856, 69 (nionogr. ; Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz; Papantla, Vera Cruz; Escuintia, Gautemala; Yucatan), 302 (Cor- 

 dova); 1858, 358 (Comayagua, Honduras); 1859, 58 (Onioa, Honduras), 

 364 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 377 (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca); 1864, 174 (valley 

 of Mexico) ; Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 7 (nionogr.); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 95 

 (Vera Cruz) ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 283 (Jalapa; n. Yucatan; Belize, 

 British Honduras; Chisec, Coban, Rctalhuleu, Volcan de Agua, San Pedro 

 Martir, El Zapote, and Costa Grande, Guatemala; Nicaragua; Costa Rica.) — 

 Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 14 (Comayagua, Honduras; Yucatan); Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 836 (San Pedro, Honduras).— Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 111 

 (Comayagua). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 102 (Pacuar, Costa 

 Rica); ix, 1869, 200 (Merida, n. Yucatan ^; Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 

 19 (Guichicovi and Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., i, 1869, 549 (hot and temperate regions. Vera Cruz, up to 4,000ft.). 

 Salvin, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 199 (Guatemala). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1883, 443 (Merida, Yucatan).— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 vi, 1883, 382 (Sucuya, Nicaragua; habits), 400 (Los Sdbalos, Nicaragua). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 325, part. — Ferrari- 

 Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 141 (Janhuitlan ?, Oaxaca; Plan del 

 Rio, Vera Cruz). — Zeledon, An. Mus. Is^ac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Naranjo, 

 Costa Rica). —RiDG WAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1888, 586 (Segovia R., Hon- 

 duras). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 491 (Greytown, Nica- 

 ragua); xviii, 1896, 631 (Alta Mira, Tamaulii)as). — Chapman, Bull. Am. 

 Mus. N. 11., X, 1898, 28 (Jalapa; notes). 



Tanagra gnatho Lichtenstein, Preis-Verz., Mex. Vog., 1831, 2 (Mexico; see 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 56). 



^ Twelve specimens. 



Too small a proportion of the specimens examined have the sex determined to ena- 

 ble me to say whether there is any variation in measurements with locality. The 

 averages of those measured are as follows: 



