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bb. Malar region black, or mostly so; chin and throat yellow flecked with black; 

 whitish of abdomen more restricted. (Veragua.) 



Clilorospingua punctulatus (p. 166) 

 aa. Pileum olive-green like back; chest and sides light grayish brown. 

 b. Throat gray; chest crossed by a band of oUve-yellow. (Costa Rica.) 



CMorospingus olivaoeiceps (p. 166) 

 bb. Throat dull yellow; chest light grayish brown or drab. (Veragua. ) 



Chlorospingus hypophasus (p. 167) 



CHLOROSPINGUS OLIV/.CEUS (Bonaparte). 

 OXIVACEUS CHLOROSPINGUS. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck slate-gray, becoming 

 blackish laterally, producing two rather broad but indistinct stripes; 

 lores rather lighter gray; orbital region dusky, passing into dull 

 grayish on auricular region; postauricular region (sides of neck) pale 

 gray; a postocular (supra-auricular) spot of white, involving posterior 

 half of upper eyelid; rest of upper parts plain, slightly brownish, 

 olive-green; malar region, chin, and throat grayish white, sometimes 

 slightly flecked with grayish; chest, sides, and flanks and under tail- 

 coverts pale yellowish olive or olive-yellowish; breast and abdomen 

 grayish white; bill black, the mandible sometimes more brownish; 

 legs and feet light horn color (in dried skins). 



Young. — Gray of head much tinged with olive-green, the white 

 postocular spot tinged with yellow; olive-green of back, etc., 

 browner; grayish white of throat and abdomen tinged with olive- 

 yellow; otherwise like adults.' 



Adadt TOffife.— Length (skin), 135.9; wing, 71.1-72.6 (71.9); tail, 

 58.9-59.4 (59.2); exposed culmen, 10. 2-10.4; depth of bill at base, 

 5.3-6.4 (5.8); tarsus, 21.3; middle toe, 11.9-12.2.' 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 134.6; wing, 66.3; tail, 60.2; exposed 

 culmen, 9.7; tarsus, 21.1; middle toe, 10.9. (One specimen, from 

 Tumbala, Chiapas.) 



Highlands of Guatemala (Coban, San Geronimo, Kamkhal, etc.), and 

 Chiapas (Tumbala). 



Poospiza oUvacea Bonapaete, Consp. Av., i, July 15, 1850, 473 ("Brazil;" coll. 

 Paris Mus.) . 



Chlorospingvji olivaceus Sclatek, Tanagr. Cat. Specif., 1854, 6; Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1856, 90 ("Central America"); Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 28.— Sal- 

 viN and GoD.MAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 315 (Coban, Kamkhal, 

 and San Ger6nimo, Guatemala). — Sclateb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 

 240.— Nelson, Auk, xv, 1898, 157 (Tumbala, Chiapas). 



Chlorospingiis ophthalmicus (not Arremon ophthalmicus Du Bus) Salvin and 

 Sclateb, Ibis, 1860, 32 (Coban, Vera Paz, Guatemala). — Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 88, part (Coban). 



' The specimen described is beginning to assume the adult plumage and therefore 

 imperfectly represents the nestling plumage. 



^Two specimens, from Tumbala, Chiapas; none of the Guatemalan specimens are 

 sexed. 



