BIRB8 0^ NORTH AND MiDDtE AMERICA. 



427 



under parts of body more strongly buffy, without vinaceous tinge on 

 sides or flanks; length (skins), 90-105.5 (100.8); wing, 47.5-51 (48.5); 

 tail, 52-5T (54); culmen, 6.5-7.5 (7.2); tarsus, 15.5-17 (16); middle 

 toe, 8-9 (8.4).« 



Southern Mexico, in States of Guanajuato (Santa Rosa), Hidalgo 

 (Real del Monte), Mexico (Valley of Mexico), Puebla (Teziutlan; Chal- 

 chicomula), Vera Cruz (Las Vigas; Mirador), Michoacan (Patzcuaro), 

 Oaxaca (La Parada; Mount Zempoal tepee; Tehuantepec), and Chiapas 

 (San Cristobal), and highlands of Guatemala (Solola; Godines; Vol- 

 can de Fuego; San Lucas; Hacienda Chan col). 



Farm raelanotus Sandbach, Eep. Br;t. Assoc, iv, 1837 (1838), 99 (Mexico; 

 = nomen nudum!) . 



Parus melanotis 'H.AB.TLAVB, Rev. ZooL, 1844, 216 (Guatemala; coll. Bremen Mus.). 



IParus} melanotis Ghay, Hand-list, i, 1869, 234, no. 3391. 



IPoeoila] melanotis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 230. 



Alegiihaliscus] melanotis Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 90, footnote. 



Psaltria melanotis Westermann, Bijdrag. Dierk., 1851, 16, pi. — Cassin, Illustr. 

 Birds Cal., Tex., etc., 1853, 20. 



Psaltriparus melanotis Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xxxviii, 1854, 62. — Sclater, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1858, 299 (La Parada, Oaxaca); 1864, 172 (City of 

 Mexico), Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 13 (Mexico).— Baibd, Rep. Pacific E. R. 

 Surv., ix, 1858, 396 (Guatemala; "Texas" »); ed. 1860 (Birds N. Am.), 

 atlas, pi. 53, fig. 3; Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 14, pi. 

 15, fig. 3; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 297; Review Am. Birds, 1864, 84 

 (Cayuilalpam c).— Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 190 (SoloW, Guatemala) ; 1874, 99 

 (do.). — Sctmichbast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 544 (alpine reg. Vera 

 Cruz). — Dug:6s, La Naturaleza, i, 1869, 140 (Guanajuato).— Baied, Brewer, 

 and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 108, pi. 7, fig. 8. — Ridgway, 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 49; Proc. IT. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 134 



« Ten specimens. 



Specimens from different geographic areas compare in average measurements as 

 follows: 



I am not able to discern any difference in coloration between Guatemalan speci- 

 mens and those from Mexico. 



b In table of measurements. « State of Vera Cruz? 



