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length (skins), 105.10-177.80 (170.69); wing, 100.33-106.17 (l"o.63); 

 tail, 59.69-63.50 (61.9S); culmen, 20.32-21.59 (20.83); depth of bill at 

 base, 14.99-16.51 (15.49); width of mandible at base, 13.97-14.73 

 (14.48); tarsus, 19.81-20.57 (20.32); middle toe, 15.75-17-27 (10.51)'. 



Adult female. — Entire pileum, including nape, uniform black; lores, 

 anterior portion of malar region, and chin black or dusky; sides of 

 head (except as described), back, scapulars, and rump grayish olive- 

 greenish; under parts light yellowish olive, washed Avith brownish 

 bufi'y posteriorlj', the throat dull buiiy whitish or pale graj'ish; wings 

 and tail as in adult male, but the black duller; innermost primaries 

 always (?) with a white spot at base, and inner webs of one to three 

 outermost rectrices with a more or less extensi\-e white terminal spot, 

 the upper tail-coverts also sometimes tipped with white; length (skins) 

 163.32-182.88 (172.21); wing, 101.60-104.14 (102.87); tail, 50.69-62.23 

 (60.96); culmen, 19.80-22.36 (20.57); depth of bill at base 14.99-17.78 

 (16.00); width of mandible at base, 13.72-15.49 (14.48); tarsus, 19.56- 

 20.83 (20.32); middle toe, 15.49-16.76 (16.26).' 



Highlands of southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Jalapa, 

 Orizaba), Puebla (Huachinango), and Mexico, and Guatemala (Duenas, 

 Coban, San Geronimo, Volcan de Fuego, etc.).'' 



(xuiraca a6ejH(i Lesson, Rev. Zool., 1839, 41 (Mexico). 



[^Hesperiphonci] abeillii Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 505. 



Hesperiphona abeillii Sumichrast, Mem. Bost. 8oc. X. H.,i, 1869,550 (temperate 



region. Vera Cruz). — Coues, Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 67, footnote 



(synonymy). 

 Hesperiphona aheillxi Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mns., xii, 1888, 34 (near City of 



Mexico; Jalapa, Vera Cruz; Coban, San Geronimo, and Volcan de Fuego, 



Guatemala) . 

 H. [esperiphond] abeillii Baird. Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 



1874, 449. 

 Coccoi/iraustesafeeiH/i ScLATER and Salvin, Ibis, i, 1859, 19 (Guatemala). — Sclatbr, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 365 (Jalapa); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 123 



(Jalapa). — Salvin, Ibis, 1861, 352 (Volcan de Fuego, Chilasco, and Coban, 



Guatemala) ; 1866, 206. 

 [CoccothraustesJ abeillii. Gr.ay, Hand-liet, ii, 1870, 87, no. 7289. 

 C. lodcothraxistes'] abeillii Ridgway, JIan. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 387. 

 \_Coccothrau8tes] abeillcei Sclateb and Salvin, Nom. Av. Xeotr. , 1873, 34. 

 Coccothraustes abeillsci Salvin and Godman, Biol. Ceutr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 426. — 



CHAP5I.4.N, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 30 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz; habits). 

 Coccothraustes abeillei Lantz, Trans. Ivans. Ac, 1896-97 (1899), 222 (Coatepec, 



^Five specimens; four from Vera Cruz and Puebla; one from Guatemala. 



^ Five specimens; four from Huachinango, Puebla (January), and one from Duenas, 

 Guatemala (September). 



^The single adult male from Guatemala examined is appreciably less greenish 

 olive-yellow on the back, and the rump and under parts are decidedly deeper yel- 

 low than in any of the four ^lexican specimens with which it has been compared. 

 The single Guatemalan female examined has a larger and stouter bill than any of the 

 Mexican females, and the under parts are more strongly washed with huffy brownish. 

 A larger series may, however, show that these differences are not constant. 



