BIBDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 577 



(Merida, Miigeres I., and Mecop I., Yucatan; Corosal, Brit. Honduras! 

 Vera Paz, Guatemala; Belize, British Honduras; Medina and San Pedro, 

 Honduras; San Jos^, Grecia, Turrialba, and Irazu, Costa Rica). — Chekkie, 

 Expl. Zool. Costa Rica, 1893, 28 (Lagarto, s. Costa Rica). 



[Spermophila] moreleti Sclatek and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 28. 



Spermophila morelelii Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 506 (Rio Grande, 

 Texas, to Honduras); ed. 1860 ("Birds N. Am."), atlas, pi. 54, figs. 2, 3; 

 Rep. U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. ii, 1859, 17, pi. 16, figs. 2, 3 (San 

 Diego and Monterey, Nuevo Leon); Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 388.— 

 SuMiCHRAST, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 551 (hot and temperate regions. 

 Vera Cruz).— Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 200.— Ridgway, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. 

 Mus., iii, 1880, 182, 232. 



[Spermophila^ moreletii CouES, Key N, Am. Birds, 1872, 150. 



S.[pi'rmophild] moreleti Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 392. 



SpoTopMla moreleti Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 111 (Alajuela, 

 Cartago, and San Jos6, Costa Rica). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 

 1887, 580 (Truxillo, Honduras) .—Chekkie, Auk, ix, 1892, 27 (w. Costa Rica, 

 San Jos6 to Pacific coast) . 



Spermophila alUgularii (not Loxia albogularis Spix) Latveence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., 

 V, 1852, 124 (Texas).— Baied, in Stansbury's Rep. Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 3.30 

 (Texas). 



Spermophila parva (not of Lawrence) Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 124 

 (Lometa Ranch, Texas; Cordova, Jalapa, and Orizaba, Vera Cruz). 



Sporophila morelleti sharpei LAWKE^-CE, Auk, vi, Jan., 1889, 53 (Lometa, Texas; 

 Am. Mus. N. H.).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., x, 1898, 29 (Jalapa).— 

 American Oenithologists' Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 602. — 

 Nehrling, Our Native Birds, etc., ii, 1896, 226. 



S-lpermophila] morelleti sharpei Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 450. 



SPOROPHILA TORQUEOLA (Bonaparte). 

 CnmAMO^-BMWBSH SEEDEATER. 



Adadt inale. — Pileum, lores, suborbital region, auricular region, 

 median portion of hindneck, back, scapulars, wings, upper tail-coverts, 

 tail, and band across upper part of chest, black; rump cinnamon; 

 under parts posterior to jugular band pale cinnamon or ochraceous- 

 buff ; malar region, chin, and throat still paler buffy, sometimes almost 

 white; sides of neck and spot .at base of primaries (except three outer- 

 most) white; bill horn brown or dusky; legs and feet dusky horn 

 color; length (skins), 102.62-118.87 (107.95); wing, 52.83-56.90(55.12); 

 tail, 1:5.47-49.28 (47.50); exposed culmen, 8.64^9.66 (9.14); depth of 

 bill at base (one specimen), 8.38; tarsus, 14.48-15.24 (14.99); middle 

 toe, 11.18-12.19 (11.68).' 



Iiimiature male. — Similar to the adult male, but back, scapulars, 

 wings, upper tail-coverts, and tail grayish olive, or more or less mixed 

 with the same. 



Adult female. — Above plain light olive, becoming paler on rump; 

 beneath yellowish buflfy, paler on abdomen, deeper, and more or less 



'Nine specimens. 

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