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marginatis et terminatis ; subalaribus et axillaribus castaneis; hypochondriis paullo castaneo lavatis. 

 Long, tota circa 6-1, alas 3-4. (Descr. feminse ex Axotla. Mus. aostr.) 

 Juv. feminsB adultse similis, sed plumis albido marginatis distinguenda. 



Hah. North America, South Atlantic and Gulf States, breeding from South Carolina to 

 Louisiana ^9^ Florida ^^ (C. terrestris), Texas to Lower California ^^ (^q pallescens). 

 — Mexico generally (Sumichrast ^^), Matamoros (Dresser ^^), Sonora, {Cahoon^% 

 Guaymas {Belding ^'^), Santa Rosa {Lloyd^% Mazatlan {Grayson^^, Forrer^^), 

 Tres Marias Is. (Grayson '^^, Forrer^'^, Nelson '^^), Soto La Marina, Aldama, Sierra 

 Madre above Ciudad Victoria, Tampico, Tamesi, San Bias, Tepic, Chapala, Vera 

 Cruz, Salina Cruz (Richardson^^), Nuevo Leon, Monte Morelos, Hacienda de los 

 Escobas (Armstrong ^^), Zapotlan, Jalisco (Lloyd ^% Chilpancingo, Guerrero 

 (Mrs. H. H. Smith^% Valley of Mexico (White % Epatlan, Chimalpa, Axotla, 

 Coapa, Mexicalcingo, Ixtapalapa, Culhuacan, Coatepec, Chietla, Chiautla, Acatlan 

 (Ferrari-Perez^^ ^^), San Andres Tuxtla (Salle ^), Oaxaca (Boucard"), Jalapa 

 (de Oca^^^, F. B. G.^^ Chapman^% Tehuantepec (Suinichrast^^), Yucatan, 

 Merida (Schott i2), Chichen-ltza (Chapman^% Tekanto, Ticul (Stone & Baker^% 

 Cozumel I. (Bean^^, Gaumer^^^^), Peto, Holbox I., Mugeres L (Gaiimer ^^ ^^) ] 

 British Honduras, Orange Walk (Gauiner^^) ; Guatemala, Uueiias, San Geronimo 

 (0. S. & F. B. G.^^^^^), Panajachel, Santa Maria near Quezaltenango (Richard- 

 son ^^) ; Nicaragua, Sucuya 22 and Ometepe I. ^^, Lake of Nicaragua, San Juan del 

 Sur, Pacific coastal (Nutting), San Carlos (Richmond^^); Costa Rica (v. Frantzius^-^}, 

 . San Jose (Carmiol^^, Zeledon^^, Boucard^^), Cartago (Cooper ^^), Bebedero to 

 Miravalles, Alajuela ( Underwood 2^), Volcan de Irazu (Nutting ^^, Rogers ^^), La 

 Palraa, Gulf of Nicoya (Nutting ^^). — South America generally to Brazil and 

 Paraguay ^^ ; Greater and Lesser Antilles ^^. 



We have carefully examined the large series of specimens vphich served as the basis 



of Count Salvadori's study of C. passerina for the ' Catalogue of the Birds in the British 



Museum,' and vre agree vi^ith him as to the impossibility of defining the various races 



into which the species has been divided by some writers. The only clearly recognizable 



race is that from Socorro Island, which is of a very dark colour. The Jamaica bird is 



identified by Mr. F. M. Chapman as the true C. passerina of Linnaeus, and the form 



from the South-eastern United States is therefore separated by him as C. terrestris. We 



have a long series of Florida specimens and the majority are of a very deep vinous tint, 



and some Mexican examples are of the same deep colour ; that its richness and 



intensity increase with age there can be no doubt, and that it varies slightly with age 



is also true. According to Mr. Chapman, the colour of the bill in life is different in the 



various races, being wholly black in the Bahama bird, while the Jamaica form has the 



basal half or two-thirds yellow, this portion of the bill being coral-red in Florida 



specimens. The male of the Jamaica bird is said to be slightly paler and to have 



a whiter throat than its mainland representative; the females, too, show slight 



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