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Tanagni aurcntu \ icillot hivoiiics tin- name Ky which this species 

 must be known. Wc recognize three fi^'ographical races, as follows: — 



1. Taxagra aureata aureata Vieillot. 



A large soutliern race, with <larkest under parts — more chestnut 

 or orange and palest blue crown. Range extending nortii to Haliia. 



2. Tanagra al'reata intkr.mkdia (Chubb). 



Kuphonia nigricolUs inicrvudia Chubb, Ibis, 1910, ser. 9, 4, p. 624. 

 A smaller race, slightly paler below, with a slightly more purplish 

 blue crown. Colombia, Venezuela, and Guiana. 



3. Tanagra aureata pelzelni (Sclater). 



Exiphonia nigricollis pelzelni v. Berlepsch, Ms. Sclater, Cat. birds 

 Brit, mus., 1886, 11, p. 61. 



A very distinct race, with yellow under parts (lacking the brownish 

 or orange tinge present in the other two). Western Ecuador. 



Tanagra laita lauta, nom. nov. 



Euphonia hirandinacea (not Tanagra hirundinacca Lesson, Traite 

 d'ornith., 1831, p. 460 = Cypsnagra hirundinacca (Lesson)), Bonaparte 

 Proc. Zool. soc. London, 18^37, p. 117 (Guatemala). 



Since there is no name in synon^-my available for Bonaparte's 

 Euphonia, which ranges from ^lexico to Nicaragua, we propose the 

 above. 



Tanagra lauta proba, nom. nov. 



Phonasca Gnatho (not Tanagra gnatho Lichtenstein, 1830 = Sal- 

 taior atriveps airiceps Lesson) Cabanis, Journ. om., 1860, p. 335 (Costa 

 Rica). 



The name by which the Costa Rican form has been known also 

 proves to be untenable, and finding no other applied to it, we propose 

 the above. 



