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Oaxaca; adult male very close to confinis, but red of underparts 

 slightly more pronounced, more vermilion, less washed with 

 gray; female a pale and dull edition of confinis, strongly yellow 

 on the throat like that form, but duller brown, less olive and 

 ochraceous both above and below, giving a pronounced clay 

 colored tone; while the male is quite different from affinis, the 

 female must be very close indeed, and a comparison has yet 

 to be made. 



Three males and four females from Lancetilla, Honduras have 

 already been discussed by Peters {loc. cit.), but I cannot agree 

 in referring them to ruhicoides as here understood and delimited. 

 The males are inseparable from salvadorensis , a form not avail- 

 able to Peters last year, and the females are intermediate between 

 confinis and salvadorensis. They do not have sufficient characters 

 to describe as a new form, but the relationships of these birds 

 are of obvious interest in connection with confinis, as Lancetilla 

 apparently is geographically intermediate between Yaruca and 

 Guatemala. It is obvious that more specimens are needed from 

 Honduras, and a better knowledge of the topography there. 



A series of nine specimens in New York from northeastern 

 Nicaragua was referred some years ago by Miller and me to 

 confinis. In the light of the facts brought out above, they should 

 be critically reexamined. 



