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the yellow median wing coverts and the frontal, loral and gular 

 feathers being replaced first. Three immature males, taken between 

 the isth and 3ist of March, have new tertials. Iris dark brown. 



228. Piranga leucoptera Trudeau. 



Seven specimens were obtained from Patulul and Mazatenango, 

 the only places where this species was seen. Iris dark brown. 



229. Rhamphocelus passerinii Bonaparte. 



Eight specimens were taken at Los Amates. None were seen 

 away from the swamps, where, however, they are quite plentiful. An 

 immature male in the series is indistinguishable, as to color, from 

 the females, but in size it is fully equal to adult males. This tanager 

 is usually seen around the margins of clearings. Iris of adult male 

 red, of immature male maroon, of female brown; bill plumbeous blue. 



230. Lanio aurantius Lafresnay. 



A single specimen was collected at Los Amates. No others were 

 observed. Iris dark brown. 



231. Eucometis spodocephala Bonaparte. 



Los Amates, one specimen, which, on comparison with specimens 

 of spodocephala from Nicaragua and pallida from Yucatan, is seen to 

 belong to the former subspecies. Its upper parts are fully as dark as 

 those from Nicaragua though it is slightly paler below. Prof. Ridg- 

 way* mentions a Guatemalan specimen that agrees with pallida, and 

 a Belize specimen that is intermediate between the two. Iris brown. 



232. Phoenicothraupis rubica rubricoides (Lafresnay). 



Near Patulul this tanager was rather common in heavy timber on 

 the hillsides. Nine specimens were taken. An adult male in the lot, 

 collected April 3d, has three new olive-green rectrices and nine old 

 red ones an interesting reversal of the usual order of moult and 

 furthermore, they are unsymmetrically located, one green feather 

 being an outer retrix on the right side, while the other two are next 

 the middle on the left side. Iris dark brown. 



233. Phoenicothraupis salvini Berlepsch. 



A single specimen was collected near Mazatenango, in a low moist 

 locality covered with primeval forest. Iris dark brown. 



*Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 50, part II, p. 141. 



