6 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



CHLOROPHONIA OCCIPITALIS (Du Bus). 

 MEXICAN CHLOROPHONIA. 



Adult male.— General color plain bright grass green or parrot green, 

 rather lighter on chin, throat, and chest; a large oval spot or patch of 

 bright turquoise blue on occiput; a bar of turquoise blue across pos- 

 terior margin of sides of neck, sometimes continued across lower 

 hindneck; breast, abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow (lemon or gamboge), the former margined anteriorly by a narrow 

 semicircular band of chestnut-brown, darkening into almost black next 

 to green of chest; sides and flanks bright yellowish green; bill (in 

 dried skins) grayish brown or horn color, becoming blackish termi- 

 nally; legs and feet light brownish (in dried skins); length (skins), 

 124:.5-134:.6 (125.7); wing, 76.2-78.7 (77.7); tail, 46.2-46.7 (46.5); 

 exposed culmen, 10".2-10.7 (10.4); depth of bill at base, 6.9-7.1; tar- 

 sus, 17.8-18.8 (18.3); middle toe, 13.5-14.2 (13.7).' 



Achilt female.— Similar to the adult male, but breast and other 

 under parts light yellowish green, becoming light greenish yellow on 

 abdomen, anal region, and under tail-coverts; no dark brown collar 

 across upper breast; length (skins), 120.7-138.4 (126.2); wing, 75.9-78.2 

 (77); tail, 43.2-46.2 (44.5); exposed culmen, 8.4-9.7 (9.4); depth of 

 bill at base, 6.^7.1 (6.6); tarsus, 17.8-18.8 (18.3); middle toe, 

 13.2-14.7 (14).' 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa; Orizaba), 

 Mexico (Valley of Mexico?), and Chiapas (Gineta Mountains), and 

 highlands of Guatemala (Coban, Choctum, etc.).* 



Euphonia occipitalis Du Bus, Esquis. Orn., 1847, pi. 14 ( = female; Mexico).— 

 Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 233. — Sclater, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1851, 

 90.— Jahdine, Ibis, 1860, 103. 



CMorophonia occipitalis Bonaparte, Rev, et Mag. de Zool., 1851, 138. — Oassin, 

 Rep. U. 8. Astr. Exp. (Gillias), ii, 1855, 182, pi. 20, flg. 2 (Mexico).— Sol a- 

 TER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1856, 270 (s. Mexico); 1857, 205 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz); 1859, 364 (Jalapa); 1864, 173 (Valley of Mexico); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 

 1856, 96; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 55 (Jalapa and Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Cohan, 

 Guatemala); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 57 (Choctum, Guatemala, 

 etc.). — SoLATBK and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 17 (Guatemala); Exotic Orn., 1869, 

 83, j^l. 42 (male and female). — Sumicheast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 

 550 (tierra caliente of Vera Cruz). — Lawrence, Bull. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 

 1876, 18 (Gineta Mts., Chiapas). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., 

 Aves, i, 1883, 253. 



[CMorophonia] occipitalis Sclateh and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 17. 



T[riglyphidia'] occipitalis Cabanis, Journ. fflr Orn., viii, 1860, 331, in t«xt. 



Alcrocompsa] occipitalis Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., ix, March, 1861, 89, in text. 



' Three specimens, all from Guatemala. 



^Five specimens; four from Guatemala, one from Jalapa, Vera Cruz. 



' I am unable to state whether there is any difference between Mexican and Guate- 

 malan examples of this species, the only specimens of the former that I have seen 

 being cage birds, and not in proper condition of plumage for satisfactory comparison. 



