3. ACREDITLA. 55 



Abdomen and breast pale vinous fawn. 

 c". Sides of crown black or blackish brown. 



e'". Centre of crown brown ; throat white nioeogidarU, p. 58. 

 f". Centre of crown whitish or pale fawn; 

 throat grej'ish or blackish grey. 

 a^. Across the upper breast faint lon- 

 gitudinal spots ; whole mantle and 



back bluish gi'ey tephronofn, p. 64. 



h*. No spots across upper breast glaucogularis, p. (35. 



g'". Centre of crown white; throat white, 

 with much rose and vinous on the 

 shoulders and lower back. 

 (*. Prieocular and loral region blackish trivirgata, p. 62. 

 rf*. Prteocular and loral region white. 



a^. Centre of mantle grey irbii, p. 6.3. 



¥. Centre of mantle black rosea, p. Gl. 



d". Sides of crown pure white like the 



whole head caudafa, p. 59. 



1. Acredula melanotis. 



Parus melanotis, Hartlaub, Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 216 ; Ltcht. Xomencl. 



p. 37 ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 234, no. 3391. 

 Poecile melanotis, Bp. C. A. i. p. 230 (1850). 

 yEiiithaliscus melanotis. Cab. Mas. Hein. i. p. 90 (1850). 

 Psaltria melanotis, Westerman, Bijdrag. Dierk. p. 16, pi. (1851) ; 



Cassin, X. Am. B. p. 20. 

 Psaltriparus personatus, Bp. C. R. xxxi. p. 478 (1850). 

 Psaltriparus melanotis, Baird, Cass.,1^- Lawr. B. N. A. p. 396, pi. 53. 



lig. 3 (1860) ; 8dat. Cat. Am. B. p. 13, no. 78 ; id. i^- Sale. Xomencl. 



Av. Xeotrop. p. 4 ; Baird, Breiv., 4" Ridgw. X. A. B. i. p. 108 ; 



Salv. Cat. Strickl. Cull. p. 66 ; id. ^- Godm. Biol, Centr.-Amer., 



Aves, p. 58. 



Adult male. Entire crown of head and occiput pale grey ; sides 

 of head, including the loral region, and the cheeks glossy black, this 

 colour extending backwards so as to form a narrow collar round the 

 hind neck : wings and tail brown, externally edged with pale grey ; 

 mantle and back yellowish brown, with a slight olive tinge ; outer 

 pair of tail-feathers with a whitish margin to the outer web ; chin 

 blackish ; throat and sides of neck white, gradually passing into 

 dull pinkish white; abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts pale 

 ochraceous or fulvous ; bill and feet black ; " iris pale straw-colour " 

 {Salviii). Total length about 4 inches, culmen 0"3, wing 1-95, tail 

 2-2, tarsus 0-6. 



Adult female. Sides of head pale brown instead of black ; sides of 

 neck a little blackish ; throat whitish ; rest of underpaits fulvous. 



Hub. Mountainous regions of 3Iexico and California. 



a. [5] orjuv.sk. Mexico. Dr. Kaup [P.]. 



b, c. (5 2 ad. sk. Parada, Mexico. Purchased. 

 d. (S ad. sk. ^lexico. Piu'chased. 

 e,f. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 



g. 2 ad. sk. California. Lord Walsingham [P.]. 



