BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 613 



Plateau of western Chiapas, southwestern Mexico, and adjacent 

 parts of Oaxaca. 



Guiraca chiapensisJ^fEisoti, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xii, Mar. 24, 1898, 61 (Oco- 

 zoacuantla, Chiapas, Mexico; U. S. Nat. Mus. ). 



Genus ZAMELODIA Coues. 



Habia (not of Blyth, 1849) Reichenbach, Av. Syst. Nat., June 1, 1850, pi. 78, 



fig. 14. (Type, Ouiraca melanocephala Swainson.) 

 Hedymeles^ (not Bedymela Sundevall, 1846) Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, June, 



1851, 152. (Type, ioxia Zudomciana Linnaeus. ) 

 Zamelodia Coues, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, Apr., 1880, 98. (Type, Loxia ludo- 



vidana Linnaeus.) 



Stoutly built, large arboreal Fringillidse with under wing-coverts 

 yellow or rose pink, and the wings marked with white; nostrils 

 exposed; adult males with breast rose red or tawny, the head black 

 (or mostljr so), and exterior rectrices extensively white terminally. 



Bill short, conical, much deeper than broad at base, with superior and 

 lateral outlines very slightly convex, the gonys straight oi' very faintly 

 convex; culmen, from extreme base, decidedly shorter than tarsus; 

 gonys a little shorter than distance from nostril to tip of maxilla; 

 mandibular tomium very faintly convex to the toothed subbasal angle, 

 the maxillary tomium nearly straight to its basal deflection, distinctly 

 notched near tip. Nostril exposed, rather large, nearly circular, with 

 membrane above and behind it. Eictal bristles very inconspicuous. 

 Wing rather long (about four and a half to four and two-thirds times 

 as long as tarsus), pointed (ninth to Sixth primaries longest, the ninth 

 longer than fifth, sometimes longer than sixth) ; primaries exceeding 

 secondaries by more than the length of the tarsus. Tail more than 

 three-fourths as long as wing, even or slightly rounded, the rectrices 

 broad and rounded at ends, more than half hidden by the upper coverts. 

 Tarsus about as long as middle toe with claw; outer claw reaching to 

 or slightly beyond base of middle claw, the inner a little shorter; hind 

 claw stout and strongly curved, shorter than its digit. 



Coloration. — Adult males with head, wings, and tail black; two broad 

 bands across wing, patch at base of primaries, and terminal portion of 

 inner webs of outermost rectrices, white; under wing-coverts rose pink 

 or gamboge yellow. Adult females with wings and tail similar, but 

 black duller and white markings more restricted; other black portions 

 of male replaced by brownish, streaked with dusky; under wing- 

 coverts saffron yellow or lemon yellow; breast streaked. 



Rcmge. — Temperate North America (south to northern South Amer- 

 ica in winter). (Two species.) 



^ "Von -^Sv/neXr/i, von siissen, lieblichen Gesangen." 



