^°go^'^l Oberholser, Synopsi's of the Ge?itis Psalirifarus. \ 



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Psaltriparus Bonaparte. 



Psaltriparus Bonaparte, Compt. Rend. XXXI, 1850, p. 47S. 



Psaltrifes Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn. 1S81, p. 333 (noin. emend, pro 

 Psa It rip a rtis ) . 



Tjpe. — Psaltriparus persouatus Bonaparte ; = Partis melajiotis Hart- 

 laub. 



Range. — Guatemala, Mexico, and the western United States. 



Psaltriparus melanotis melanotis {Hartlaub). 



Parus melanotis Hartlaub, Rev. Zool. 1844, p. 216. 



Psaltriparus personatus BoNAPARTK, Compt. Rend. XXXI, 1850, p. 478. 



Psaltrites kelviveniris Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn. 1881, p. 333, pi. iv, fig. i. 



Type locality. — Mexico (southern part). 



Geographical distribution. — Guatemala, and southern Mexico north 

 at least to Hidalgo and Michoacan. 



The black sides of the head and the rich brown color of the 

 back serve readily to distinguish this form from all others of the 

 genus. The bird described by Cabanis as Psaltrites helviventris, ^ 

 from Western Mexico, interrogatively Tehuantepec, though some- 

 times synonymized with Psaltriparus plumbeus, is undoubtedly the 

 female of P. melanotis. 



Psaltriparus melanotis iulus Jouy. 



Psaltriparus melanotis iulus Jouy, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XVI, 1894, 

 p. 776. 



Type locality. — Hacienda El Molino, Jalisco, Mexico. 



Geographical distribution. — Jalisco, with probablj' north central 

 Mexico. 



Similar to P. melanotis, but the back paler, as are also the 

 lower parts. 



Psaltriparus melanotis lloydi {Sennett). 



Psaltriparus lloydi Sennett, Auk, V, Jan. 1888, p. 43. 

 Psaltriparus santaritce Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. X, September, 

 1888, p. 697. 



' Loc. cit. 



