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BULLETIlSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult fenude.^Ijength (skins), 167.6-177.8 (171.7); wing, 80.8-95.8 

 (87.1); tail, 64.3-78.7 (70.6); exposed culmen, 17-17.5 (17.3) depth 

 of bill at base, 10.4-11.2 (10.7); tarsus, 20.8-21.3 (21.1); middle toe, 

 15-15.2 (15.2).' 



Guatemalan specimens have the wing and tail longer, average measurements being 

 as follows: 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen, 



Depth 

 of bill 

 at base. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe. 



MALES. 



Five adult males from central Guatemala 



One adult male from British Honduras (Manatee 

 E.) 



One adult male from southern Honduras (Sego- 

 via R.) 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from central Guatemala 



Two adult females from southern Honduras (Se- 

 govia E. ) 



96.5 

 92.2 

 88.4 



95.8 

 82.8 



78.2 

 73.9 

 70.9 



78.7 

 66.5 



18.3 

 18.8 

 17.8 



17 

 17.5 



10.9 

 10.9 

 10.9 



10.4 

 10.9 



21.6 

 22.4 

 22.6 



20.8 

 21.1 



15.7 

 16.2 

 15.7 



15.2 

 15 



Central Guatemala (pine-ridge of Poctun) to southern Honduras 

 (Segovia River). ^ 



Pyranga testacea (not of Sclater and Salvin) Ridgway, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 



1869, 133, part (Rio Manati and Belize, British Honduras). — Boucard, Liste 



Ois. Guat., 1878, 33. 

 IPyraiigcc] testacea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 22, part 



(Honduras). 

 [Pyranga saira] var. testacea Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway' s Hist. 



N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 434, part (Rio Manati and Belize, British Honduras). 

 Pyranga figlina Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, sig. 37, Dec. 1883, 



293 (Manati R., British Honduras; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Sclater, Cat. 



Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 185 (pine-ridge of Poctun, Guatemala). 

 Piranga figlina Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., s, 1888, 585 (Segovia E., 



Honduras) . 

 P[iran£ra] figlina Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 455. 



PIRANGA ERYTHROMELAS (Vieillot). 

 SCARLET TANAGER. 



Adult male in spring and summer. — Uniform intense scarlet or 

 scarlet- vermilion,' the scapulars, wings, and tail uniform deep black;* 

 under wing-coverts white (sometimes tinged with scarlet), with a broad 



' Three specimens. 



^ While the specimens from Segovia River have decidedly shorter wings and tail 

 than those from Guatemala, the coloration of the examples seen is decidedly that of 

 the present form. 



'The red varies considerably, being sometimes of a flame-scarlet or almost orange 

 hue; more rarely the red is replaced by orange-yellow. 



■•The middle wing-coverts arfe sometimes marked with red, orange, or yellow, 

 rarely forming a broad and conspicuous band. 



