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and neck bright violaceous steel blue or glossy violet-black; rest of 

 upper parts dark steel blue, more or less tinged with violet, especially 

 on upper back; remiges and rectrices black edged with steel blue; 

 inner webs of secondaries with more than basal half abruptly white; 

 inner web of outermost rectrix mostly or almost wholly white; second 

 rectrix with more than terminal half of inner web white; third with 

 much less white, sometimes very little; under parts of body, includ- 

 ing chest, pure rich lemon or chrome yellow, the lower abdomen some- 

 what mixed with whitish; under tail-coverts white, the shorter ones, at 

 least, tinged with yellow; bill blackish terminally, grayish or whitish 

 (bluish gray in life?) basally; iris brown; legs and feet dusky in dried 



■skins; length (skins), 96.5-99.1 (97.8); wing, 53.6-56.9 (55.1); tail, 

 30.7-35.3 (33); exposed culmen, 6.9-7.4 (7.1); depth of bill at base, 



'4.6-5.1 (4.8); tarsus, 13.5-14.5(13.7); middle toe, 10.2-10.4.'. 



Admit female. — Forehead light olive-green, passing into slate-gray 

 on crown, occiput, and hindneck, the rest of upper parts dull olive- 

 green, brighter on rump and upper tail-coverts and on edges of larger 

 wing-coverts, remiges, and rectrices, the two last mainly diisky; under 

 parts, including throat, pale olive-yellowish, becoming more strongly 

 and purely yellow on flanks; abdomen, anal region and under tail- 

 coverts white; bill, iris, and feet as in adult male; length (skins), 87.6- 

 94 (90.2); wing, 61.6-53.1 (52.8); tail, 29-29.7 (29.5); exposed culmen, 

 6.6-6.9; depth of bill at base, 4.1-4.8; tarsus, 12.7-13.2 (13); middle 

 toe, 9.9-10.2 (9.9).^ 



Western Mexico, in States of Sonora (Alamos), Sinaloa (Mazatlan; 

 Plomosas), and Colima (Sierra Madre), and Territorj^ of Tepic (San 

 Bias; Rosa Morada). 



Euphonia affinis (not Tanagra [Euphonia) affinis Lesson) Lawrence, Mem. Bost. 



Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 273 (Sierra Madre, Colima; Mazatlan). 

 Euphonia godmani Bebwstbe, Descr. Supposed New Birds from W. N. Am. and 



Mex., Jan., 1889, 90; Auk, vi, Apr., 1889, 90 (Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico; 



coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



EUPHONIA HIRUNDINACEA Bonaparte. 

 BONAFARTE'S EUPHONIA. 



Adult male. — Forehead and anterior portion of crown (back to 

 about middle of eyes) and entire under parts yellow, deepest on under 

 parts of body, where deep gamboge or Indian yellow, paler on forehead, 

 chin, throat, and under tail-coverts, where more lemon yellow; poste- 

 rior portion of crown, occiput, hindneck, auricular, suborbital, and 

 malar regions, back, scapulars, smaller wing-coverts, rump, and upper 

 tail-coverts plain dark steel blue, more or less tinged with or inclining 

 to violet on head and neck; remiges and rectrices black, with steel blue 

 edgings; inner webs of secondaries abruptly white for more than basal 



' Four specimens. ■' Three specimens. 



