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12. HEDYMELES. 



Type. _ 

 Habia, Reichenb. Syst. Nat. Taf. lxxviii. fig. 14 (1850) j T7 ^ mi mdl " 



Hedymeles, Cab. Mus. Hein. Tk. i. p. 152 (1851) 



(nee Hedymela, Sund.) H. ludovicianus. 



Zamelodia, Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v. p. 98 



(1880) H. ludovicianus. 



Cf. Stejneger, Auk, i. p. 367 (1884) ; Salvin Sr Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 336 (1884). 



Head of Hedymeles ludovicianus. 



Range. North America generally, ranging throughout Central 

 America to Colombia, Ecuador, and the Antilles. 



Key to the Species. 



a. Head black, as well as the back and 



throat ; fore neck and chest rosy ; 



axillaries rosy ludovicianus $ ad., p. 59. 



b. Head black, as well as sides of feet 



and chin ; throat and breast tawny ; 



axillaries yellow melanocephalus S ad., p. 63. 



c. Head blackish, with pale centre to 



the crown ; axillaries yellow. 

 a'. Uniform pale tawny below, yellow 



in the centre of the breast. . . . melanocephalus <f juv., p. 64. 

 b'. Streaked below. 



a". No yellow in the centre of the [p. 60. 



breast ludovicianus § ad. & tf juv., 



b". Centre of breast washed with 



yellow melanocephalus 5 ad., p. 63. 



1. Hedymeles ludovicianus. 



Le Gros-bec de la Louisiane, Briss. Om. iii. p. 247, pi. xii. fig. 2 



(1760) ; Daubent. PI. Enl. iv. pi. 153. fig. 2. 

 Loxia ludoviciana, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 306 (1766). 

 Le Rose-gorge, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 460 (1775). 

 Loxia rubricollis, P. L. S. Mull. Syst. Nat., Anhang, p. 151 (1776) ; 



Cass. Proc. Philad, Acad. 1864, p. 252. 

 Red-breasted Grosbeak, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 1, p. 126 (1783) ; 



Penn. Arctic Zool. ii. p. 350 (1785). 

 Spotted Grosbeak, Lath. t. c. p. 126 ; Penn. t. c. p. 350. 



