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life?); legs and feet grayish dusky (bluish gray in life?); length (skins), 

 123.2-147.3 (131.3); wing, '65.3-73.7 (68.1); tail, 56.4-60.7 (58.4); 

 exposed culmen, 10.9-13.2 (12.4); depth of bill at base, 7.6-8.1 (7.9); 

 tarsus, 18-20.3 (18.8); middle toe, 10.7-12.4 (11.4).' 



Admit female. — Above (including sides of head and neck) yellowish 

 olive-green, more decidedly yellowish on head and neck; scapulars 

 dark olive-grayish; wings and tail dusky grayish, the latter with 

 olive-green, the former with paler grayish edgings (more olive-green 

 on secondaries); middle and innermost greater wing-coverts tipped 

 with white, forming one distinct and one indistinct band; under parts 

 bright yellow (gamboge), slightly tinged with olive on sides and flanks; 

 lores dusky; bill and feet as in the male; length (skins), 116.8-137.2 

 (128); wing, 64.3-68.1 (66.3); tail, 54.6-57.7 (55.6); exposed culmen, 

 12.4-14 (13.2); depth of bill at base, 7.6-8.4 (7.9); tarsus, 17.8-19.1 

 (18.3); middle toe, 10.7-11.7 (11.4).* 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Mirador; Jalapa; Orizaba; 

 Cordova), Puebla (Metlaltoyuca), Mexico (Valley of Mexico), and 

 Chiapas (Tumbala; Ocuilapa); Guatemala (Volcan de Agua; Savana 

 Grande; Retalhuleu; Chisec; Easch^; Barranca Honda); Salvador 

 (San Salvador) ; British Honduras (Belize) ? . 



Tanagra erythromelas (not Pyranga erythromelas Vieillot, 1819) Lichtenstein, 

 Preis-Verz. Mex. Vog., 1831, 2 (Lagunas, Mexico) ; Journ. fur Om., 1863, 

 57. 

 Pyranga erythromelsena Solater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 126 (monogr.; 

 Lagunas, Orizaba, Jalapa, and Cordova, Vera Cruz; Guatemala), 303 (Cor- 

 dova); 1859, 364 (Jalapa); 1864, 173 (Valley of Mexico); Synop. Av. Tan- 

 agr., 1856, 50; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 81 (Jalapa; Guatemala); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 189, part (Jalapa and Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Volcan de 

 Agua, Savana Grande, Eetalhuleu, Chisec, EascM, and Barranca Honda, 

 Guatemala; ? Belize, British Honduras). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 

 15 (Pacific slope and Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Salvin, Ibis, 1860, 100 (Pacific 

 slope, Guatemala); 1861, 147 (mountains of Basch^, Guatemala); Cat. 



' Fourteen specimens. 



' Seven specimens. 



I can discover no difference between Mexican specimens (of which, however, the 

 series examined is very unsatisfactory) and those from Guatemala and Salvador. 

 Their average measurements are as follows: 



