BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMBKIOA. Il7 



Mountain districts of central and southern Mexico, in states of 

 Durango (El Salto), Zacatecas (Valparaiso Mountains), Guanajuato, 

 Hidalgo (Real del Monte; San Augustin), Mexico, Puebla (Teziutlan), 

 Vera Cruz (Jalapa, Orizaba, Cordova), Oaxaca (La Parada, Totontepec), 

 Colima (Sierra Madre), Jalisco (San Sebastian; Sierra Nevada), and 

 Morelos (Tetela del Volcan). 



Ptilogonys cinereus "Swainson, Catal. Bullock's Mex. Mus., 1824, App. page 4" 

 (table lands of Mexico). — Bonaparte, Comp. Av., i, 1850, 335. — Sclateh, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 299 (Cordova, Vera Cruz) ; 1858, 802 (La Parada, 

 Oaxaca); 1859, 364 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 376 (Totontepec, Oaxaca, descr. 

 eggs); 1864, 173 (City of Mexico); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, part (Mexico).— 

 Baikd, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 319, footnote (Mexico); Review 

 Am. Birds, 1866, 412, part (Sierra Madre de Colima; Orizaba and Cordova, 

 Vera Cruz). — Duges, La Naturaleza, i, 1868, 141 (Guanajuato). — Sumichrast, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 548 (alp. reg., Vera Cruz, 4,160-10,000 ft. 

 and Valley of Orizaba). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 

 1883, 217, part (Mexican localities).— Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 

 222, part (Mexico).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 26 (Jalapa; 

 habits). 



Pliilogonys] cinereus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 55 (Jalapa). 



IPtilogonysl cinereus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 366, no. 5568. — Sclatee and 

 Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 13, part (Mexico). 



Ptiliogonys cinereus Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., i, May,' 1827, 368; Zool. Illustr., 

 ser. 2, ii, no. 14, 1831, pi. 62; iii, no. 23, 1832, pi. 102 (Real del Monte).— 

 Ferraei-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 139 (Teziutlan, Puebla; 

 Jalapa, Vera Cruz). 



P[tiliogony8'] cinereus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 464, footnote (descr.). 



Pliliogonatus cinereus Swainson, Zool. Journ., iii, July, 1827, 164. 



Ptilogonis cinereus Laivebnce, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 273 (Sierra Madre, 

 Colima). 



Hypothymis chrysorhoea Temminck, PI. Col., iii, 1828, pi. 452 (Mexico). 



Ilypothymis mexicanus Lichtenstbin, Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 2; Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1863, 58 (reprint). 



PTILOGONYS CINEREUS MOLYBDOPHANES Ridgway. 

 GUATEMALAN PTILOGONYS. 



Similar to P. c. cinerei/s, but more richly colored, the adult male with 

 flanks olive-green instead of golden olive or wax yellow, the area thus 

 colored much more restricted. 



Adult male. — Head soft smoke gray, becoming dull whit3 on fore- 

 head, anterior portion of malar region, and chin, the auricular region, 

 occiput (concealed by longer feathers of crest), and nape more brownish 

 gray, but less distinctly brownish than in I^. c. cinereus; a narrow white 

 orbital ring; back, scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-cov- 

 erts uniform deep bluish gray (decidedly darker than in P. c. cinereus), 

 the chest, breast, upper abdomen, and anterior portion of sides similar 

 but slightly paler; throat pale gray, the upper portion sometimes white, 

 like chin; lower abdomen and thighs white; flanks olive-green (much 



