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southward through Guatemala, British Hondui-as and Honduras to th( 

 Segovia fiiver. 



Tanagra abbas Lichtenstein, Preia-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 2 (Mexico; coll. Berlii 

 Mus.); Journ. iiir Orn., 1863, 57. — Sclater, Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1856 

 235 (monogr.; Cordova and Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Honduras; Guatemala) 

 303 (Cordova); 1858, 358 (Lake of Yojoa Honduras); 1859, 364 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz), 378 (Teotalcingo and Villa Alta, Oaxaca); 1864, 173 (valley ol 

 Mexico); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 61; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 76 (Mexico) 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 162 (Orizaba and Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Belize, 

 Brit. Honduras; Cahabon, Coban, Chisec, Duenas, and Betalhuleu, Guate- 

 mala; San Pedro, Honduras). — Sumichrast, Mem. Boat. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 

 550 (hot and temperate regions Vera Cruz, up to 4,00Ql ft). — Sclater and 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 836 (San Pedro, Honduras). — Law- 

 rence, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 19 (Guichicovi, Oaxaca). — Salvin, 

 Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, 189 (Guatemala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 278. — Fereari-Perez, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 

 1886, 140 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz).— Eidgway, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 

 580 (Truxillo, Honduras), 585 (Segovia R., Honduras). — Eichmond, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., xviii, 1896, 631 (Alta Mira, Tamaulipas) .—Chapman, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 27 (Jalapa). 



ITanagra} abbas Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr.,, 1873, 21. 



Tanagra (Aglaia) mcariits Lesson, Cent. Zool., 1831, 206, pi. 68 (Mexico). 



Tanagra vicarius Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, 116 (Guatemala); 

 Consp. Av., i, 1850, 238; Eev. et Mag. de Zool., iii, 1851, 171; Note aur les 

 Tang., 1851, 22.— Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 16, pi. 5, flg. 1, egg 

 (Duenaa, Guatemala; descr. eggs). — Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 

 59 (Belize, British Honduraa). — Taylor, Ibis, 1860, 111 (Lake Yojoa, 

 Honduras). 



Thlraupisl vicarius Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 29 (Mexico). 



Genus SPINDALIS Jardine and. Selby. 



Spindalis Jardine and Selby, Illustr. Orn., new ser., 1836, pi. 9. (Type, S. bUi- 

 neatus Jakdine and Selby, Tanagra nigricephala Jameson. ) 



Spizampelis Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., x, 1866, 253. (Type, Tanagra pretrei 

 Lesson. ) 



Medium-sized to rather small Tanagers, with exposed culmen decid- 

 edly shorter than middle toe without claw, tarsus not more than one- 

 third as long as tail, and maxillary tomium distinctly sinuated; adult 

 males with head conspicuously striped with black and white, the 

 plumage otherwise varied with black, yellow, orange (sometimes 

 tawny or chestnut), and white; females with wing-coverts and second- 

 aries edged distinctly with whitish or pale olive. 



Bill rather short (distance from nostril to tip of maxilla less than 

 that from same point to anterior angle of eye), varying from stout to 

 rather slender, triangular in vertical profile; culmen distinctly (usually 

 strongly) convex; gonys slightly convex, shorter than length of maxilla 

 to nostril, about equal to or a little less than width of mandible at 

 base; depth of bill at base less than distance from nostril to tip of 

 maxilla; maxillary tomium rather distinctly notched subterminally, 



