27. CHRYSOMITRIS. 207 



Spinus psaltria niexicanus, Stefneger, Auk, ii. p. 362 (1884) ; A. O. U. 

 Check-list N. Amer. B. p. 261 (1880). 



Adult male. General colour above glossy blue-black, slightly 

 varied with olive-yellow bases to the feathers of the hind neck and 

 mantle ; rump also mottled with white bases ; wing-coverts and 

 quills entirely black, the latter fringed with white at the ends, the 

 inner secondaries with a large white spot at the end of the outer 

 web, the inner greater coverts also having a small white spot at the 

 tip ; inner primaries white at the base, forming a speculum ; tail 

 black, the three outer feathers with a large white mark on the inner 

 web ; crown of head, lores, upper edge of eyelid, and ear-coverts 

 black, like the head ; cheeks, feathers below the eye, and lower edge 

 of eyelid, as well as the entire under surface of body, bright yellow, 

 a little paler on the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; a black patch 

 on each side of the upper breast ; thighs yellow ; under wing-coverts 

 and axillaries black, edged with ashy white, the latter tinged with 

 yellow ; quills below blackish, white at the base of the inner web. 

 Total length 4-4 inches, culmen 0*35, wing 2*5, tail 1-55, tarsus 

 0-5. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 dull olive-yellow, the lower back and rump a little greener ; lesser 

 wing-coverts like the back ; remainder of the coverts and quills 

 dusky brown, edged with olive, whitish at the end of the greater 

 coverts, and with a large white spot on the outer web of the secon- 

 daries ; a small white alar speculum at the base of the primaries ; 

 tail-feathers dusky brown, the two outer feathers with a large white 

 patch on the inner web ; crown of head like the back ; feathers 

 round the eye and lores a little yellower : ear-coverts olive-brown, 

 washed with yellow ; cheeks and under surface of body yellow, 

 brighter on the abdomen ; sides of body and flanks rather browner ; 

 under wing-coverts and axillaries dusky, edged with whitish. Total 

 length 4 inches, culmen O'SS, wing 2-45, tail 1*55, tarsus 0*45. 



The male from the Tres Marias Islands has a green back mixed 

 with black, thus showing an approach to C. psaltria and C. arizonce. 



Hab. Valley of Lower Rio Grande in Texas southwards into 

 Mexico, and thence through Central America to Panama. 



a. Ad. st. Mexico. J. Phillips, Esq. [P.]. 



b, c. Ad. sk. Mexico. Purchased. 

 d, e. $ 2 a d. sk. Mexico. Sclater Coll. 



/. Ad. sk. Jalapa, S. Mexico (de Oca). Salvin-Godman CoD. 



g. c? ad. sk. Tres Marias Islands, Feb. 21 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{A. Forrer). 

 h. 2 ad. sk. Tres Marias Islands, April Salvin-Godman Coll. 



21 (A. Forrer). 

 i. [ cj ad.] sk. Northern Yucatan ( G. F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Gaumer). 

 k. [ 5 ad.] sk. Mugeres Island, Dec. 1886 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(G. F. Gaume)-}. 

 /. [cJad.Jsk. Guatemala (Comtancia). Sclater Coll. 



