BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



667 



(22.61); depth of bill at base, 12.19-13.21 (12.95); tarsus, 27.18-28.45 

 (27.43); middle toe, 18.29-21.08 (19.05).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Alta Mira), Vera 

 Cruz (Tlaltocalpam ; Protrero; Otatitlan; Mirador; Motzorongo), Pue- 

 bla (Metlaltoyuca), Oaxaca(Tuxtepec; Santa Etigenia; Tabasco (Tlapa; 

 Frontera), and Yucatan (Temax) and southward to Costa Rica (San 

 Jose; Cartago; Tempate; Alajuela; Naranjo). 



Tdnagra grancUs IjicnTEi^STEis, Preis-Verz. Mex.Vog., 1831, 2 (Mexico; see Journ. 

 fiir Orn.,1863, 57). 



Saltator grandis ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 72 (monogr. ; Jalapa, Ori- 

 zaba, and Cordova, Vera Cruz; Guatemala); 1857, 205 (Cordova); 1859, 58 

 (Onioa, Honduras), 36-1 (Jalapa), 377 (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca) ; 1864, 174 (val- 

 ley of IMexico) ; Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 10 (monogr. ) ; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 

 96 (Orizaba); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 288 (Orizaba; TonaM, Chiapas; 

 n. Yucatan; Duenas, Guatemala; San Pedro, Honduras; Nicaragua; Irazu 

 San Jose, Tempate, and Volcan de Cartago, Costa Rica). — ^Sclater and Sal- 

 viN, Ibis, 1859, 14 (Duenas, Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 836 

 (San Pedro, Honduras). — Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 58 (Omoa, 

 Honduras).— Cab.\.n-is, Journ. fiir. Orn., 1860, 416 (Costa Rica); 1861, l(do.).— 

 Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 102 (San Jose and Cartago, Costa Rica); 

 ix, 1869, 200 (Merida, n. Yucatan); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 19 

 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca). — Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 300 (Costa 

 Rica). — SuMicHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 541 (hot and temperate 

 regions Vera Cruz, up to 5,000 ft.). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 

 56 (San Jos6, Costa Rica); 1883, 443 (Merida, Yucatan).— Salvin, Cat. 

 Strickland Coll., 1882, 200 (Guatemala).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves, i, 1883, 328 (Tonala, Oaxaca; Escuintla, Retalhuleu, Savana Grande, 

 etc. , Guatemala; Tempate, Costa Rica; etc. ) . — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. , 



^ Eleven specimens. 



Specimens from different geographic areas average as follows: 



Locality. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from .southeastern Mexico. . . . 



One adult male from Yucatan 



Two adult males from Nicaragua 



Three adult males from Costa Rica 



FEMALES. 



Six adult females from southeastern Mexico 



One adult female from southern Honduras (Se 



govia R. ) , 



Three adult females from Nicaragua 



One adult female from Costa Rica , 



19.56 

 19.05 



18.54 

 18.54 



17.78 

 18.54 

 18.29 



Some slight color differences are observable in the series examined, specimens 

 from Guatemala and southward being somewhat browner than those from Mexico, 

 while two examples from Yucatan are rather paler than the last mentioned. The 

 differences are very slight, however, and may not prove sufficiently constant when 

 a more satisfactory series has been compared. 



