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paler and more orange (very nearly the tint of red-lead), the 
rump and ground-color of back olive-grayish, and wing-bands 
pure white. Adult female with yellow of lower parts and olive 
of upper parts much paler. Length (of male, before skinning) 
8.25, wing 3.85-3.95, tail 3.30-3.50, exposed culmen .70-.75, 
depth of bill at base 38-42. Hab. Tres Marias Islands, western 
Mexico. P. flammea Ripew. Tres Marias Tanager.! 
B. Wing less than 3.00. (Adult males rich scarlet-vermilion, the lores, scapu- 
lars, wings, and tail deep black, the wings with two broad bands of 
pure white across tips of middle and greater coverts. Adult females 
bright olive-green above, yellow beneath; wings and tail grayish 
dusky, with olive edgings, the former with two white bands, as in 
males.) 
c. With narrower wing-bands; adult male with the red a lighter, more 
scarlet, tint; adult females with the yellow and olive less deep ; 
length (skins) about 5.10-5.50, wing 2.65-2.85, tail 2.30-2.55. Hab. 
Southern Mexico (north to Jalapa, Valley of Mexico, etc.), Guate- 
mala, and Salvador. : 
P. leucoptera TRUDEAU. White-winged Tanager.? 
ce, With broader wing-bands; adult males with the red of a darker tint 
(almost carmine on upper parts) ; adult females with the yellow and 
olive more intense; length (skins) about 4.90-5.20, wing 2.65-2.85, 
tail 2.35-2.55. Hab. Costa Rica and Veragua. 
P. leucoptera latifasciata Ripew. Broad-banded Tanager.3 
Famity HIRUNDINIDA2.—Tue Swatrows. (Page 322.) 
Genera. 
a. Nostrils opening directly upward, and with very little membrane bordering the 
inner edge, 
b'. Wing 5.00, or more; tail decidedly forked (for much more than length of 
tarsus); adult males (of North American and some tropical species) 
entirely glossy blue-black. (Largest of the Swallows.) 
Progne. (Page 458.) 
b*. Wing decidedly less than 5.00; tail nearly even (forked for much less than 
length of tarsus); adults (sexes alike in color) not black beneath. 
c. Upper parts parti-colored, the crown and back blue-black, forehead 
whitish or rusty brown, rump cinnamon or buffy; throat and sides 
of head chestnut, rest of lower parts whitish medially, grayish 
brown laterally ; edge of outer quill normal. 
Petrochtlidon. (Page 459.) 
1 New species; type, No. 50824, f ad., Tres Marias; Col, A. J. Grayson. (Four specimens—two adults of 
each sex.) . 
2 Pyranga leucoptera TrupEAv, Jour. Ac. Sci. Phil. viii. 1839, 160. 
3 New subspecies. 
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