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under tail coverts, and a fainter indication of this color on the breast 
and back. The nearly grown bill in this bird is dark in color, and I 
noted that the iris was dark. Another female, fully grown, with 
light-colored bill, shows this same suffusion of ochraceous orange, 
and I believe that this also is immature. The bill is actually heavier 
at the base than in viridiflavus in addition to being slightly longer. In 
15 males of viridiflavus the culmen from base varies from 13.1 to 
14.2 mm., with an average of 13.6 mm. The iris in the adult H. f. 
xuthus is light colored, as in the other races of flavipes. 
The subspecific name comes from the Greek ovfés, brownish 
yellow, tawny. 
Family CorREBIDAE: Honeycreepers 
CYANERPES CYANEUS CARNEIPES (Sclater): Red-legged Honeycreeper, 
Azulito 
Coereba carneipes P. L. Sciater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1859 (February 
1860), p. 376. (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca, México.) 
Conditions on Coiba seem especially favorable to the blue honey- 
creeper as it is one of the more common birds. Dozens were found 
at flowering trees in the mangrove swamps, dozens about fruiting 
trees in the forests, and other dozens crowded the guayabo trees in 
the pastures, when these came into bloom at the close of January. 
The birds fly about in small bands, probe actively in flowers for 
nectar and small insects, and then may rest quietly on dead twigs for 
a brief period. They are birds of strong flight seen often passing 
over or through tall trees. As they pass overhead the blue color of 
the males is lost against the sky, and they appear black except for a 
flash of lighter color from the yellow of the underside of the wings. 
Commonly, they are called verdon, a name that may apply to the 
female but is hardly applicable to the brilliant blue of the male. 
COEREBA FLAVEOLA MEXICANA (Sclater): Common Honeycreeper, 
Reinita Comin 
Certhiola mexicana P. L. Sctater, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 24, 1856 (Jan. 
26, 1857), p. 286. (Southern México.) 
The active little yellow-breasted honeycreepers were common, 
though not so abundant as the blue species. They were distributed 
universally, ranging from the mangrove swamps and adjacent wet 
woodlands back into the high forest, and at times I saw them in 
shrubbery and palms around clearings. Males taken January 9 and 
