BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 445 



[Pyrgisoma] leucute Sclater and Salvix, Xom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33, part. 

 Pi/r<;isoma leticotis Zeledos, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 9. — Chekkie, Auk, ix, 



July, 1892, 249 (San Jos(5, Costa Rica; descv. young). 

 lEmbernagral leucotis Ghay, Hand-list, ii, 1870, 92, no. 7352. 



MELOZONE OCCIPITALIS (Salvin). 

 SALVIN'S GKOTJND SPAEEOW. 



Similar to 3f. leucotis but tail longer, pileum with a broad ash gray 

 median stripe, a distinct stripe of yellow above the auriculars (conflu- 

 ent with yellow on side of neck), lower foreneck white, passing into 

 ash gray laterally, sides more extensively gray, and black on chest 

 much more restricted, forming a well defined though irregular central 

 spot; length (skins), 175.01-188.21 (180.09); wing, 76.45-83.31 (80.01); 

 tail, 72.39-81.79 (75.95); exposed culmen, 14.99-15.24 (15.11); depth 

 of bill at base (one specimen), 9.91; tai-sus, 26.16-28.45 (27.43); mid- 

 dle toe, 19.81-20.07 (19.94).^ 



Highlands of Guatemala (Volcan de Fuego, Volcan de Agua, Savana 

 Grande, etc.). 



Chaiiiscospiza twquata (not Pipilo torquatus Du Bus) Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 

 1860, 274 (Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala). 



Pyrgisoma leucoie (not Melozone leucotis Cabanis) Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 205 (Guate- 

 mala). — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1868, 326, part (Guate- 

 mala); Exotic Orn., 1868, 128, part, pi. 64, fig. 2. 



[^Pyrgisoma] leucote Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 33, part 

 (Guatemala). 



Pyrgisoma occipitale Salvin, Ibis, 4th ser., ii, Oct., 1878, 446 (Volcan de Fuego, 

 Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1886, 404 (Volcan de Fuego, Volcan de Agua above San 

 Diego, and Savana Grande, Guatemala). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xii, 1888, 404. 



Genus ARREMONOPS Ridgway. 



Arremonops Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed.. Mar., 1896, 434, 605. (Type, 

 Embernagra rufivir-gata Lawrence. ) 



Small or medium-sized semi-terrestrial Fringillidse with tail shorter 

 than wing; wing short and much rounded (wing- tip shorter than distance 

 from nostril to tip of maxilla.,, and outermost primary shorter than 

 secondaries); upper parts plain olive-greenish, the pileum three- 

 striped (lateral stripes brown or blacky median stripe gray or olive); 

 edge of wing yellow; under parts whitish (more or less bufl'y or 

 grayish anteriorly and laterally), without darker band across chest; 

 tail olive-green, like back and wings; superciliary stripe, and auricular 

 and orbital regions gray. 



Range. — Southern Texas to Venezuela and Ecuador. 



^ Three specimens, two of them males, the other with sex undetermined. 



