BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



597 



(21.34); depth of bill at base, 16.26-19.05 (17.53); width of mandible 

 at base, 13.21-14.78 (13.72).^ 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Mirador, Orizaba, Sante- 

 comapan, etc.), Oaxaca (Plaj^a Vicente, etc.), and Chiapas (Ocuilapa, 

 etc.) to Mcaragua (Rio Escondido, Los S^balos, etc.) and northern 

 Costa Rica (Rio Frio). 



Oyanoloxia concrela Du Bus, Bull. Ac. Eoy. Brux,, xxii, pt. i, 1855, 150 (Mexico). 



Ooniaphea concreta Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 302 (Orizaba, Vera 

 Cruz). 



Goniaphsea concreta Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 228 (Santecomapan, 

 Vera Cruz). 



lOoniaphea'] concreta Gray, Hand-list Birds, ii, 1870, 103, no. 7540. 



Guiraca concreta Sclatee, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 378 (Playa Vicente, 

 Oaxaca); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 101 (Orizaba).— Salvin and Sclater, Ibis, 

 1860, 32 (Yzabal, Guatemala).— Sumicheast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 

 551 (hot region. Vera Cruz).— (7) Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1870, 836 (Honduras).— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 400 

 (Los Sdbalos, Nicaragua).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, 

 i, 1885, 345, part (Mexican, Guatemalan, and Honduras localities). — Eidg- 

 WAY, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., x, 1887, 580 (Segovia R., Honduras).— Shakpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 74, part (Orizaba, Vera Cruz; Vera Paz, 

 ChoctUm, and Yzabal, Guatemala; Brit. Honduras) . — Eichmond, Proc. U. 

 S. Nat. Mus., xvi, 1893, 492 (Eio Escondido, Nicaragua; habits). 



[Guiraca] concreta Sclatee and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 27, part. 



G.[uiraca] eyanoides concreta Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 446, part 

 (Guatemala; eastern Mexico). 



CYANOCOMPSA CONCRETA CYANESCENS Ridgway 

 PANAMA BLTTE GROSBEAK. 



Similar to C. c. concreta but averaging smaller (the bill especially), 

 the adult male more decidedly bluish, the adult female and young less 

 rustv brown. 



^ Nine specimens. 



Average measurements according to locality are as follows: 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Culmen, 



Depth of 

 bill at 



Tarsus, 



Middle 

 toe. 



Width 

 of man- 

 dible at 



base. 



MALES. 



Two adult males from Vera Cruz, eastern 

 Mexico 



Two adult males from Guatemala 



Three adult males from Honduras and 

 Nicaragua 



FEMALES. 



Two adult females from Vera Cruz, eastern 

 Mexico 



Four adult females from Guatemala (3) 

 and Chiapas (1) 



Three adult females from Nicaragua and 

 Costa Rica 



86.34 

 82.80 



82.65 



78.99 

 76.45 

 77.22 



74.93 

 71.12 



70.36 



69.09 

 66.29 

 66.02 



21.34 

 21.34 



21.08 



22.61 

 21.08 

 20.57 



18.80 

 17.53 



18.29 

 17.53 

 16.76 



22.10 

 22.35 



21.59 

 20.57 

 21.08 



15.24 

 16.24 



14.48 

 14.99 

 14.99 



14.99 

 14.48 



13.97 



14.73 

 13.72 

 13.46 



