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Habia rubica rubicoides (Lafresnaye). 



Diagnosis. — A relatively small form; adult male with throat 

 light vermillion, passing rapidly into grayish vinaceous rosy 

 red, the gray tone and the rosy shade of the red the two important 

 points, the gray wash strongest on the flanks and vent; adult 

 female correctly described by Ridgway, generally ochraceous 

 olive below, distinctly paler on the throat; wing of males 90-97 

 (93). 



Range. — With the type and a fair series before me, it is obvious 

 that this form is confined to the hot lowlands of eastern Vera 

 Cruz and will presumably be found in Tabasco, Campeche and 

 northern Peten. It is the exact analogue of H. salvini littoralis 

 (Nelson), and is very different from the form in the interior of 

 Vera Cruz. 



2. Habia rubica holobrunnea, subsp. nov. 



Type. — Mus. Comp. Zool. no. 233, 707; adult male, collected in Motzorongo, 

 Vera Cruz, Feb. 20, 1925, by W. W. Brown. 



Diagnosis. — Totally different from any other form in northern Central 

 America; adult male with throat scarlet, passing to bright liver red on abdo- 

 men, entirely lacking either gray or rose tones; adult female darker and 

 browner above than any other form, almost uniform brownish olivaceous 

 ochre below; size similar. 



Range. — -I have examined twelve specimens from Precedio, Motzorongo 

 and Orizaba, interior of Vera Cruz. 



3. Habia rubica nelsoni (Ridgway). 



Diagnosis. — Similar to H. rubica rubicoides, but slightly 

 smaller and duller in color; adult male a browner red above, 

 the red of throat more flesh colored; female duller and paler. 



Range. — Outer two-thirds of Yucatan Peninsula, thus in- 

 cluding parts of Campeche and Quintana Roo. 



4. Habia rubica confinis (Bangs). 



Tanagra ignicapilla Lichtenstein, Preis, Verz. Mex. Vog., 

 1831, p. 2 (Mexico, nomen nudum). 



Phcenicothraupis ignicapilla Finsch, P.Z.S., 1870, p. 581, in 

 text (Guatemala). 



Phoenicothraupis rubica confinis Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 

 18, 1905, p. 158 (Yaruca, Honduras). 

 ' Diagnosis. — -Adult male similar to Habia rubica rubicoides, 



