700 BULLETIJSr 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



adult male; length (skin), 135; wing, 58; tail, 67; exposed culmen, 

 12.2; tarsus, 19.5; middle toe, 11.5.' 



Western Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Santa Efigenia), Guerrero 

 (Acapulco), Colima (Sierra Madre), and Sinaloa (Rosario; Tatemalis). 



Granatellus venuslus Bonaparte, Oonsp. Av., i, 1850, 312 (Mexico; ex Du Bus, 

 manuscript) .— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1864, 607, pi. 37, lower fig.— 

 Baikd, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 231 (Sierra Madre, Colima).— Lawrence, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., ii, 1874, 270 (Sierra Madre, Oolima).— Lawrence, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 16 (Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca, Jan.).— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1881, 160.— Sharpe, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 369.— Loomis, Auk, xviii, 1901, 110 (Tatemalis 

 and Kosario, Sinaloa; descr. adult female). 



inraiKiteHus} iviiiixtn/! ScLATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 11. 



llctcriii} mmslus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 384, no. 5821. 



GRANATELLUS FRANCESCffi Baird. 

 TRES UARIAS RES-BREASTED CHAT, 



Similar to G. vc/vistiis but larger; adult male without any black col- 

 lar across upper chest; with an interrupted white collar across hind- 

 neck; red of under parts more restricted; white on lateral rectrices 

 more extended; graj' of upper parts lighter and less bluish, and mid- 

 dle and greater wing-coverts margined terminally with white; adult 

 female similar to that of G. vemistu.s but larger and paler, with much 

 more white on lateral rectrices. 



Adult 111 ale — Pileum (except anteriorly and laterally) deep bluish 

 gray or plumbeous; rest of upper parts plain bluish slate-gray, the 

 middle and greater wing-coverts narrowlj'^ tipped or terminally mar- 

 gined with white, producing two narrow bands; primaries dusky gray 

 edged with pale bluish gray; an interrupted and mostly concealed 

 white collar across hindneck; tail black, the outermost rectrix with 

 outer web and more than terminal half of inner web white, the second 

 with more than terminal third and most of outer web white, the third 

 with terminal portion extensively white, the fourth with a small 

 wedge-shaped terminal spot or mesial streak of white; forehead, 

 sides of crown and occiput, with loral, suborbital, and auricular regions, 

 black; malar region, chin, and throat white, the lower portion of the 

 latter with a few, mostly concealed, spots of black;" chest, median 

 portion of breast, abdomen, and under tail-coverts pure light vermilion 

 red; sides of breast, sides, and flanks, white; thighs gray and white; 

 maxilla dusky horn color or grayish black with paler tomia; mandible 

 much paler (bluish gray in life ?) ; iris brown ; " legs and feet dusky horn 

 color (in dried skins); length (skins), 143-160 (151); wing, 65.5-67.5 



' One specimen, from Santa Efigenia, Oaxaca. 



''Sometimes forming, or at least suggesting, an interrupted collar. 



' Grayson, manuscript. 



