13. GUIRACA. 



65 



4 2 ad. sk. Fuller's, Arizona (E. TV. Nelson 



Sm. no. 98920). 

 c d juv. sk. Arizona (E. TV. Nelson ■ Sm. no. 



99698). 

 /. d 1 ad. sk. Northern California (C. #; 



Tmonsend ; Sm. no. 91931). 

 f/. 2 ad. sk. Jalapa, Mexico (_D<- Oe«). 



«, ?• d 2 ad. sk. Jalapa {De Oca). 

 .?'. d ad. sk. Oaxaea {Fenuchio). 



k,l. $ % ad. sk. Orizaba (Botten). 

 m. d ad sk. Presidio, Mexico, Dec. 25 



{A. Form-). 



Presidio, Mexico, Feb. 25 Salvin-Godman Coll 



(^4. lorrer). 

 Mexico (J! Taylor). 



U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.], 



Sclater Coll. 

 Sahin-Godruan Coll. 

 Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 Sclater Coll. 

 Salvin-Goduian Coll. 



n. 2 ad. sk. 

 o. d ad. sk. 

 V> 2-6 2 ad. st. Mexico 



Zoological Society. 

 (Type of species.) 

 Purchased. 



r. d ad. sk. 



M,«. d; v. 2 



ad. sk. 

 «\ Juv. sk. 



/3. i7. capitalis. 



San Bernardino, California, 



June 14. 

 California. 



R. B. Sharpe. Esq. 



Lord "\\ alsinpham 

 [P.]. 

 Nevada, California, Oct. (E. W. R B. Sharpe, Esq. 

 Nelson). rp n 



13. GUIRACA*. 



Guiraca, &™iW. Zool. Joum. in. p. 350 (1827) ... G cEerulea 



Ooccoborus, Szcains. Classif. B. ii. p. 277 (1837) G. cajrulea.' 



Type. 



Head of Guiraca cmrulea, 



Range. North America; Central America; and South America 

 except the southern portions, Chili and Southern Patagonia. 



Two well-marked sections exist in the present genus, charac- 

 terized by a strong differential peculiarity in the assumption of 

 the spring plumage. So far as the series examined by me goes to 

 testify, G. ccerulea assumes the spring plumage by an abrasion of the 



„r p i f ] f 6 ^ • G ; r R - Gra 7 restor ed for this genus the name of Ganiaphea 

 of Bowd.tch (Trav. Madeira, p. 29); but, while admitting the characters of the 

 latter geuus to have been taken in all probability from one of the species of 

 (juiraca. there is so much uncertainty about it that it is not advisable to resus- 

 citate Bowditch s name. 



vol. xir. 



