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5. CHLORONEEPES. 



Type. 

 Chloronerpes, Stoains. Classif. B. ii. p. 307 (1837) .... C. rubiginosus. 

 Chrysopicus (pt.), Bp. Consp. Volucr. Zi/god. no. 143 



(1854) C. rubiginosus. 



Lampropicus, Malli. Introd. Monog. Find. p. liii 



(1861) C. aurulentus. 



Craugasus, Cab. ^- Heine, Mus. Sein. iv. p. 157 (1863) C. flavigula. 



Range. Southern and Eastern Mexico to Sierra Madre above 

 Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas ; through Central and South America 

 south into Paraguay and the Argentine Eepublic (Tucuman). 



Key to the Species. 



A. Underparts not uniform; upper tail-coverts 

 not red. 

 a'. Quills rufous on more or less of the inner 

 webs. 

 a '. Quills without bars or spots. 

 a". Underparts entirely barred. 



a*. Chin and throat uniform yellow. 



a^. Crown, occiput, and nape red in 



the male, and olive in the female. 



«". Smaller, length 8'3 inches, wing 



4-85 ; side of the neck yellow, 



the yellow stripe from the 



upper mandible uniting with 



it; with only a short olive 



stripe behind red malar region 



in male and not sepaiating the 



yellow of the neck from the 



barred fore neck. [p. 72. 



a'. AVith red malar stripe chrysochlorus J ad., 



v. Malar stripe olive chrysochlorus $ ad., 



b^. Larger, length 9-3 inches, wing [p. 72. 



5-6; side of the neck as well 

 as the face olive, crossed by a 

 yellow stripe from the base of 

 the upper mandible to the 

 nape ; the olive behind the red 

 malar region in the male ap- 

 pearing as a broad stripe bor- 

 dering the throat and fore neck. [p. 73. 



c''. With red malar stripe hrasiliensis c? ad., 



d'^. Malar stripe olive brasiliensis J ad., 



V. Crown, occiput, and nape yeUow; [p. 73. 



malar stripe olive xanthochlorus S ad.*, 



b^. Chin and throat barred like the [p. 73. 



underparts ; the malar region in the 

 young males olive, devoid of red. 



* The female is apparently unknown. The only two examples of this species 

 with which I am acquainted are in the CoUectiou, and are labelled males. It 

 is Tery remarkable that this sex should be totally deyoid of red upon the head . 



