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However, specimens taken at Jalapa agree with others taken at 
Las Vigas, where they were evidently preparing to breed. 
Coccothraustes vespertinus mexicanus, subsp. nov. 
Hesperiphona vespertina var. montana B: B. & R., N. A. Bds., I, 1875, 
P- 449 (in part). 
Coccothraustes vespertina montana MEARNS, Auk, VII, 1890, p. 246 (in 
part). 
Char. subsp.— Slightly smaller than Coccothraustes vespertinus mon- 
tanus, the male with the yellow frontal band narrower, the female with 
the under parts more buffy. Wing, 4.50; tail, 2.64; tar., .75; ex. cul., 
S7ey uae 
Type.— Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., No. 68480, g ad., Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 
Mexico. Alt., 8000 feet. Collected by Mateo Trujillo and Frank M. 
Chapman, April 24, 1897. 
The characters distinguishing this race have in part been 
commented on by previous writers! who, however, deemed them — 
insufficient to warrant its recognition, but on comparing four adult 
males and four adult females from Mexico with over sixty 
specimens of Coccothraustes vespertinus and C. v. montanus, I have 
no hesitancy in describing the Mexican bird as a new form. 
A young male but a few days from the nest, being fed by an adult 
male, was taken at Las Vigas, April 21, where the bird doubtless 
breeds, therefore, early in March, 
Spinus pinus macroptera (Du Bus.). 
‘““ Carduelis macroptera Dusus, Esq. Orn. t. 23;” Bonar. Consp. Avy. 
Il, HBGOS je Gubic 
Char. subsp. — Similar to spzvus pznus but larger, less heavily streaked 
below, and with yellow of wings and tail of greater extent. Wing, 3.12; 
tatlet.O8>3 tate. 52)ssexsicul-, 42) in. 
Type.— Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., No. 68481, g ad., Las Vigas, Vera Cruz, 
Mexico. Alt., 8000 feet, collected by Frank M. Chapman, April 20, 1897. 
I have not seen Du Bus’s description but the description by 
Bonaparte is sufficient to fix the name of this well-marked race. 
At the time of my visit males were in full song and evidently 
mating. 
1Cf. Baird, Brewer and Ridgway and Mearns, /. c. 
