434 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Auricnlars grayish like the back ; eyelids light red ; lores grayish. 

 Wing, 4.10; tail, 3.40; bill, .50. Hah. Table-lands of Middle 

 America, north into southern Rocky Mountains of United States. 



var. hei^atica. 

 Auriculars reddish like the neck ; eyelids and lores well defined, 

 buffy-white. Wing, 3.60 ; tail, 3.25 ; bill, .40. Ilah. Paraguay. 



var. azar oe } 



8. P. saira. Bill large, much swollen laterally, the culmen curved 

 both terminally and basally. ^. Above dark brownish-red, beneath 

 deep scarlet, duller laterally. 9 • Bright olive-green and intense orange- 

 yellow, instead of reddish. 



Commissural tooth indistinct ; forehead considerably brighter red- 

 dish or yellowish than the back. $. Beneath almost entirely pure 

 vermilion-scarlet. 9 • Beneath almost wholly pure gamboge-yel- 

 low. Wing, 4.00 ; tail, 3.40 ; culmen, .80. Hob. Eastern South 

 America (Brazil and Trinidad) var. saira? 



Commissural tooth distinct, prominent ; foi-ehead scarcely brighter 

 reddish or yellowish than the back. $ . Beneath brownish-scarlet 

 medially, more brownish laterally. 9 • Beneath Indian-yellow 

 medially, greenish laterally. Wing, 3.70 ; tail, 3.20 ; culmen, .80. 

 Hah. Southern Middle America, on the Atlantic (Belize, Rio 

 Manati, Costa Rica, Angostura, and Veragua) . . var. testacea.^ 



Commissure without an appreciahle tooth ; hill paJe brownish. 



9. P. aestiva. ^. Above purplish-red, beneath pure, fine, rosaceous- 

 vermilion. 9 • Above brownish olive-green, beneath ochraceous-yel- 

 low. 



Head above scai;cely brighter reddish or yellowish than the back. 

 Bill, .55, or less, from nostril ; primaries, .84 longer than secon- 

 daries. Wing, 3.81 ; tail, 2.96 ; bill, .52. Hah. Eastern Province 

 of United States, south, in winter, through Eastern Middle America 

 to Peru .......... var. cesttva. 



Head above decidedly brighter reddish or yellowish than the 

 back. Bill, .60 or more, from nostril ; primaries, 1.16 longer tlian 

 secondaries. Wing, 4.24 ; tail, 3.68 ; bill, .64. Hah. Southern Mid- 

 dle Province of United States (Upper Rio Grande region and 

 Lower Colorado Basin) : in winter south, througli AVestern Mexico, 

 to Colima var. cooperi. 



C. Body ashy ; wings, tail, and pileum dull purplish-red ; throat, lining of wing 

 and crissum dilute rose-pink in the ^. 



10. P. roseigularis.* Sides of head, nape, back, and scapulars deep 

 ash, the dorsal region with a faint purplish cast ; lores, eyelids, cheeks, 

 and lower parts in general, paler, and with a dingy buflf tinge, — paler 

 on the abdomen, and more strongly marked with ash across the breast 



1 ? Pyranga azarce, D'Orb. Voy. p. 264. Ridgway, Pr. Ac. IST. S. Philad. June, 1869, p. 

 132, fig. 2. 



2 Pyranga saira, Sclater, P. Z. S. 1856, 124. Ridgway, Pr. A. N. S. June, 1869, p. 131, 

 fig. 1. {Tanagra saira, Spix, Av. Bras. II, 48, fig. 1.) 



3 Pyranga testacea, Sclater & Salvin, P. Z. S. 1868, 388. Ridgway, Pr. A. N. S. June, 

 1869, p. 133, f. 1. 



* Pyranga roseigularis, Cabot. (Description fiom the type.) 



