134 CATALOGUE OF MEXICAN AXIM4.LS. 



13. Polioptila caerulea (Linn.)- 



Motacilla ccerulea, Linn., Syst. Nat., 12, I, 1766, p. 337. 



Polioptila ccerulea, ScL, P. Z. S., ISiJS, p. 11 ; Salv. & God., Biol. Ceutr. Am., 

 Aves, I, ]). 50. 



Vulg. — Pespirria, Papamoscas aplomadito. 

 ^a&.— State of Puebla. Piiebla, No. 10 $ . 



Fam. PAEID^. 



14. Psaltriparus melanotis (Hart!.). 



Parus melanotis, Hartl., Rev. Zool., 1844, p. 216. 



Psaltriparus melanotis, Bouap., Conipt. Eencl., XXXVIII, 1854, j). ; Salv. 

 & Godm., Biol. Centr. Am., Aves, I, j). 58, 



Vulg. — Sastre. 



Hal). — State of Puebla. Teziutlan, No. 49 S , No. 49a 9 , November. 



[An adult female, almost certainly of this species, differs from the 

 male in the absence of any black on the bead, except an indistinct, 

 though rather broad streak along the sides of the occiput, above the 

 auriculars. The auriculars and orbits are light grayish brown, fading 

 into paler brown on the malar region and lores. It thus corresponds 

 well with the Psaltrites helHveiitris, of Cabanis, as described in the 

 "Journal tiir Oruithologie " for July, 1881, p. 333, and figured on plate 

 4, fig. 1 of the same journal for Jctober, 1881. A translation of Ca- 

 banis's description is as follows : 



" Upper parts olive-gray, hood pure gray, back brown. Throat and 

 sides of neck white. Chin, bridle, orbital and auricular region, as well 

 as the lower breast, light brown. The gray hood is separated on both 

 sides from the light brown sides of the head by a black stripe begin- 

 ning behind the eye. 



" The species is distinguished from the related Psaltrites melanotis by 

 the light brown (not black) cheeks, and from P. minimus by the gray 

 (not brown) hood. 



"It inhabits Western Mexico (Tehuantepec?) (Mus. Berol.)." 



Since the specimen referred to was obtained at the same time with a 

 male of P. melanotis (at Teziutlan, in the State of Puebla, in November, 

 1884), while it agrees in all respects with the latter except in the color- 

 ation of the sides of the head, there can be no reasonable doubt that it 

 is the same species and therefore that P. lielviventris must be consid- 

 ered as a synonym of P. melanotis. 



The two specimens measure as follows : 



d i 1.90 



2.10 Iris "black. 



$ 1 1. 90 2. 10 Iris yellow. 



E. E.] 

 15. Farus meridionalis, Scl. 



Parus meridionalis, Scl., P. Z. S., 1856, p. 293; 1857, p. 81; 1858, p. 299: 1859, 

 p. 363 ; Salv. & God., Biol. Centr. Am., Aves, I, p. 57. 



Yulg. — Valoucito. 



