BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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bill at base, 8.1-9.7 (9.1); tarsus, 20.8-22.1 (21.6); middle toe, 15.2- 

 16.5 (16).^ 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa, Cordova, 

 VaUe Real, Motzorongo, etc.), Oaxaca (Playa Vicente), and Tabasco 

 (Teapa) southward through Central America to Costa Rica (Cartago, 

 Navarro de Cartago, Angostura, Orosi, San Carlos, Sarapiqui, etc.). 



Tanagra (Tachyphonm) sanguinolentus Lbsson, Cent. Zool., 1830, 107, pi. 39 

 (Mexico). 



Tlachyphonus] sanguinolentus Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1844, 365. 



[Bamphocelus'] sanguinolentus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850,242. 



R[hamphoceliis} sanguinolentus Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 26 (Mexico). 



Ramphocelus sanguinolentus Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856,132 (monogr.; 

 Valle Real and Cordova, Vera Cruz; Coban, Guatemala; Camalacan R., near 

 Truxillo, Honduras), 303 (Cordova); 1859,59 (Honduras and Guatemala), 

 364 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz), 377 (Playa Vicente, Oaxaca); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 

 1856,56; Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 80 (Honduras; Vera Cruz).— Sclater and 

 Salvin, Ibis, 1859,16 (coast Honduras); Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 278 

 (Mosquito coast, Nicaragua); 1870,836 (San Pedro, Honduras).— Moore, 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 59 (Peten, Guatemala) . — Lawrence, Ann. Lye, 

 N. Y., ix, 1868, 99 (Navarro and Angostura, Costa Rica).— Feantzius, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1869,299 (Orosi, San Carlos, and Sarapiqui, Costa Rica). — 

 Sdmichrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 549 (hot region Vera Cruz, up 

 to 4,000 ft) .—Salvin, Ibis, 1872,316 (Chontales, Nicaragua). 



[Phlogothraupis'] sanguinolenta Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 21. 



PMogothraupis sanguinolenta Boucaed, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1878, 55 (Orosi, 

 Costa Rica); Liste Ois. Guat., 1877, 33. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.- 

 Am., Aves., i, 1883, 285 (Belize and Belize R., British Honduras; near Coban, 

 Choctum,Cahabon, and Yzabal, Guatemala; etc.). — Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., vi, 1883, 400 (Los Sdbalos, Nicaragua; food). — Sclatee, Cat. Birds Brit. 



' Seven specimens. 



Average measurements of specimens from different localities are as follows: 



I am not able to discover any color differences between extreme northern and 

 extreme southern specimens; the series of the latter is very small, however. 



