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depth of bill at base, 13.97-15.49 (11.73); width of mandible at base, 

 12.19-12.95 (12.15); tarsus, 19.05-21.59 (20.32); middle -toe, 16.00- 

 18.29 (IT.27).^ 



Mountains of southei'n Mexico, in States of Oaxaca (Sierra San 

 Felipe), Vera Cruz (Orizaba, L:is Vigas, Mirador), Puebla (Chalchico- 

 mula), Mexico (Monte Alto), Durango (El Salto), etc. 



IHespeiijtIiona] vespertimi (not FringiUa vespertina W. Cooper, 1825) Bonaparte, 



Consp. Av., i, 1850, 505, part (Mexico). 

 Hesperiphona i-esjiertiuii Si'michkast, Mem. Bost. Soc. X. H., i, 1869, 550 (Monte 



Alto, near City of Mexico, May). — Cooper, Orn. Cal., 1870, 174, part 



(Me.^ico. ) — Baird, Brewer, and Bidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 449, 



part.— CouES, Birds N. W., 1874, 104, part; Bull Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 



65, part (in synonymy). — Ridrway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 165, part. — 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 32, part (Vera Cruz). 

 Coccothraustes vespertinus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1860, 251 (Orizaba, 



Vera Cruz).— Sata-in, Cat. Strickland Coll., 1882, ,211 (Mexico).— Salvin and 



GoDMAS, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 426, chiefly (Monte Alto and 



Orizaba). 

 [^Coccoihra itxtes'] vespertinus Sclater and Salvin, Xom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 34, part. 

 Cloccothrm^tesl vespcrtixus Ridgway', Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 387, part. 

 Coccothraustes respertiim American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, 



no. 514, part (Mexico). 

 [Hesperiphona resperthial var. inontnna Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer, and Ridg- 



way's Hist. X. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 449, part (mts. of Mexico). 

 Coccothra axles respertlna montana SIearns, Auk, vii, July, 1890, 246, part (Mirador, 



Vera Cruz). 

 Coccothraastes vespertinus niontanus American Ornithologists' Union Committee, 



Auk, viii, Jan., 1891, 85, part (Mexico); Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 514o, 



part. 

 C.[occothraustes1 respertinus montaans Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 



601, part CN'era Cruz). 

 Coccothraustes vespertiims me.ricamis Chapman, Auk, xiv, July, 1897, 311 (Las 



Vigas, Vera Cruz, e. 3Iexico, alt. 8,000 ft.; Am. Mus. Xat. Hist.). 



HESPERIPHONA ABEILLII (Lesson). 

 ABEILLE'S GROSBEAK, 



Adult male with head entirely black (all round); adult female with 

 pileum black and without dusky streak on sides of throat. 



Adult male. — Head and neck all round uniform deep black; back, 

 scapulars and rump light oliA'e-green, more j^ellowish on rump; under 

 parts (except throat and foreneck) olive-A'ellow, paler posteriorly; 

 thighs black, the feathers more or less margined with light olive or 

 grayish; wings, tail, and upper tail-coverts black; innermost second- 

 aries (tertials) and corresponding greater Aving-coverts mostly graj'ish; 

 fourth to seventh primaries sometimes with a white spot at base; 

 bill olive-grayish, with tip and tomia yellowish; feet light brownish; 



' Four specimens. 



