52 FRINGILLID^. 



sides of the body and flanks ; sides of neck golden yellow, streaked 

 with black like the hind neck ; thighs ashy ; under tail-coverts 

 white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pale golden yellow ; quills 

 below dusky, ashy along the inner web. Total length 9*5 inches, 

 culmen 1*05, wing 4 - 5, tail 3"45, tarsus 1. 



Young male. Similar to the old female, but more yellow above ; 

 wings and tail as in the adult female, but with larger white spots 

 at the end of the wing-coverts and secondaries ; the white base to 

 primaries also larger ; under surface brighter yellow, as well as the 

 eyebrow and sides of face. 



Hah. Western Mexico. 



a. S ad. sk. Mexico (H. Cuming). Zoological Society. (Type 



of species.) 



b. 3 ad. sk. Mazatlan ( Grayson*). Sclater Coll. 



c. § ad. sk. Mazatlan (Grayson). Salvin-Godinan Coll. 



d. S jnv. sk. Mazatlan, Dec. 5 (A. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Forrer). 



e. 2 a d- sk. Presidio, Mexico, Jan. 7 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(A. Forrer). 



f. c? ad. sk. Presidio, Mexico, June 12 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(A. Forrer). 



2. Pheucticus chrysogaster. 



Pitylus chrvso<raster, Less. Cent. Zoo?, pi. G7 (1830) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



ii. p. 362"(1844). 

 Pitylus dorsigerus, Jard. $ Selby, III. Orn. iv. (n. s.) pi. 44 (c. 1840). 

 Coccoborus chrysogaster, Tschudi §■ Cab. Faun. Peruan., Aves, p. 222 



(1855). 

 Pheucticus chrysogaster, Scl. P. Z. S. 1858, pp. 450, 454, 1859, 



p. 140, 1860, p. 87 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 100 (1862) ; id. $ Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 27 (1873) ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. II. 



iv. p. 275 (1874) ; Tacz. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 199 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. 



Coll. p. 218 (1882) ; Berl. $r Tacz. P. Z. 8. 1883, p. 549, 1884, 



p. 292 ; Salvin fy Godman, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 335 



(1884) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, iii. p. 335 (1884). 

 Goniapkea chrysopeplus, Gray, Iland-l. B. ii. p. 104, no. 7550 



(1870). 

 Pheucticus chrysopeplus (nee Viy.), Tacz. P. Z. S. 1874, p. 519, 1879, 



p. 229. 



Adult. Similar to P. chrysopeplus, but much smaller, and not 

 showing the white edging to the ends of the primaries ; the back 

 also is more uniform black, slightly broken up by a few golden 

 marks on the inner webs of the feathers of the mantle, instead of 

 being golden, mottled with black on a few of the mantle-feathers : 

 " upper mandible blackish, the lower yellow ; legs and feet lead- 

 colour, claws brown ; iris dark hazel " (L. Fraser). Total length 

 7'7 inches, culmen 0-9, wing 4-05, tail 3-2, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. Similar to the female of P. chrysopeplus, and differ- 

 ing in the same way from the male : " bill dark horny grey, the 

 lower mandible ashy horny with black edges ; feet leaden " (Jehl-i). 



