BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 27 



(Immature males first assume yellow feathers on the throat and median 

 under parts, the whole under surface becoming yellow before the black 

 begins to appear. This is first seen on the head, which becomes e:cactly 

 as in the adult male before the color of the back, wings, etc., changes 

 from olive-green.) 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Tamaulipas (Tampico; Alta Mira), 

 Vera Cruz (Cordova; Jalapa; Orizaba), Puebla (Rinconada), Oaxaca 

 (Play a Vicente; Guichicovi), and Yucatan (Chichen-Itza), and south- 

 ward to Costa Rica (San Jose; Naranjo de Cartago; San Juan; Turri- 

 alba, etc.); Chiriqui?; Veragua?. 



JEuphonia hirundinacea Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 117 (Guate- 

 mala;=immature male) ; Nuov. Ann. Sc. Nat. Bolcgna, ii, 1839, 345 (Mexico) ; 

 Consp. Av., i, 1850, 232.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1854, 98, pi. 65, 

 fig. 1 (Guatemala; Chiriqui; Veragua; Colombia?); 1856, 278 (monogr. ), 

 303 (Guatemala; Cordova, Vera Cruz); 1859, 364 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 378 

 (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca) ; Tanagr. Cat. Spec, 1854, 14, 16; Synop. Av. Tanagr., 

 1856, 104; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 59 (Coban, Vera Paz, Guatemala; Mexico; 

 "New Granada"); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 75 (Orizaba, Vera Cruz; 

 n. Yucatan; Corosal and Belize, Brit. Honduras; pine ridge of Poctun and 

 Choctum, Vera Paz, Guatemala; San Pedro, Honduras; Costa Eica). — 

 Sclatek and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 16 (Guatemala); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1870, 836 (San Pedro, Honduras).— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phiila., 1865, 

 172 (Turrialba, Costa Rica).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 98 

 (Turrialba and San Juan, Costa Rica); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 

 18 (Guichicovi, Oaxaca). — Frantziits, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 297 (Costa 

 Rica). — Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H , i, 1869, 550 (tierra caliente. 

 Vera Cruz). — Boucard, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 443 (Yucatan). — 

 Salvin, Cat. Strrckland Coll., 1882, 180 (Guatemala). — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am. Aves, i, 1883, 261 (Coban, Cajabon, etc., Guate- 

 mala; Hato Viejo, Nicaragua, etc. ).-t-Zelbdon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa 

 Rica, i, 1887, 109 (San Jos6, Naranjo de Cartago, and Monte Redondo de 

 San Jos6, Costa Rica). — Cherrie, Auk, ix, 1892, 24 (San Jos6, etc., Costa 

 Rica; descr. nest and eggs). — Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 

 488 (Rio Escondido, Nicaragua); xviii, 1896, 631 (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas). — 

 Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., viii, 1896, 297 (Chichen-Itza, Yucatan; 

 song).— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 223 (Rinconada, 

 Puebla). 



E[uphonia\ hirundinacea Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1849, 367. 



[Euphonia'] hirundinacea Gray, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 78, no. 7145.— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 18. 



Phonasca hirundinacea Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 334 (Costa Rica). 



Euphonia laniiroslris (not of Lafresnaye and D'Orbigny) Sclater, Jardine's 

 Contr. Orn., 1851, 86, part (Chiriqui). 



(?) Phonasca gnatho Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., Sept., 1860, 335 (Costa Rica; coll. 

 Berlin Mus.); 1861, 90. 



(?) Euphonia gnatho Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 98 (Costa Rica).— 

 Frantzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 297 (Costa Rica).— Salvin and Godman, 

 Biol. Centr.-Am. Aves, i, 1883, 262 (Tempate, Gulf of iSTicoya, Costa Rica).— 

 Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 76 (Tempate and Turrialba, Costa 

 Rica) .— Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 109 (Costa Rica). 



(?) lEuphonia'] gnatho Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 18. 



