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Family THRAUPIDAE 



CHLOROSPINGUS OLIVACEUS POSTOCULARIS Cabanis 



Chlorospingus postocularis Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1866, p. 163 (Sierra above 

 Costa Cuca, Guatemala). 



On November 19 at Sierra Santa Elena I secured a female from 

 a little group of four or five that fed actively in open brush near the 

 ground. The white spot behind the eye was a prominent field mark. 

 Another was secured in a similar situation the following day. 



PIRANGA RUBRA RUBRA (Linnaeus) : Summer Tanager 



Fringilla rubra Linnaeus, Systema naturae, eel. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 181 (South 

 Carolina). 



An adult male in full red plumage was taken on November 8 in a 

 coffee finca at 3,200 feet below Alotenango. Several were recorded 

 near Panajachel on November 13, and a female was shot in a swampy 

 thicket near Puerto Barrios on December 4. 



PIRANGA LUDOVICIANA (Wilson) : Western Tanager 



Tanagra ludoviciana Wilson, American ornithology, vol. 3, 1811, p. 27, pi. 20, 

 fig. 1 (mouth of Lolo Creek Fork of Clearwater River, vpestern Idaho). 



At Panajachel I shot two males on November 11 and a female on 

 November 13. Several others were seen here. On November 29 and 

 30 I recorded others at 3,200 feet below Alotenango. Tanagers of 

 this group were known to the country people as kitrik in obvious 

 imitation of the call of Piranga r. rubra and P. h. sanguinolenta. 



PIRANGA BIDENTATA SANGUINOLENTA Lafresnaye 



Pyranga sanguinolenta IjAf^esn aye, Rev. Zool., 1838, p. 97 (Mexico). 



A male was taken at 6,500 feet on the north slope of Volcan de 

 Acatenango above Dueilas on November 1. The bird worked actively 

 through the lower trees, its call being so similar to that of the summer 

 tanager of the north that I mistook it for that bird until it was in my 

 hand. 



THRAUPIS ABBAS (Lichtenstein) 



Ta)wgra Abbas Lichtenstein, Preis-Verzeichniss mexicanischer Vcigel, 1830, p. 2 

 (Mexico). 



On November 29 and 30 these tanagers were common at fig trees in 

 a coffee finca at 3,200 feet elevation near Las Lajas, below Alotenango. 

 They moved about singly or in groups of two or three, gathering to 

 feed and then scattering out to other trees to rest. Among the 

 branches their movements were rather deliberate. In flight the yel- 

 low spot on the wing was often coiispicuous. In two taken on Novem- 

 ber 29 the intestine was relatively large in size. 



