BIRDS OF NOKTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 623 



(Ohietla, Puebla). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Avea, i, 1884, 

 335. — SiiAKPB, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xii, 1888, 51. — Lantz, Trans. Kansas 

 Acad. Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 223 (Culiacan, Sinaloa). 

 [Pheudicas] chrysopeplus Sclater and Salvin, Nom, Av. Neotr., 1873, 27. 



PHEUCTICUS AURANTIACUS Salvin and Godman. 

 ORANGE-COLORED GROSBEAK. 



Similar to P. chrysopeplus but the yellow replaced by orange, and 

 the feathers of the rump blackish basally. 



Adult male. — Head, neck, and under parts, except under tail-coverts, 

 uniform orange; rump paler and duller, with the feathers black beneath 

 the surface; under tail-coverts white; back, scapulars, wings, and tail 

 black, the first much broken along the median line by large longitudi- 

 nal spots of orange; innermost middle wing-coverts broadly tipped 

 (for about 8.89 mm.) with white, faintly margined with yellow; greater 

 coverts also tipped with white, broadly (for nearly 12.70 mm.) on 

 innermost feathers bu^ rapidly diminishing toward the outermost ones, 

 where foi'ming onlj' a small spot at tip of outer web; tertials with a 

 large roundish or ovate spot of white at tips of outer webs; seconda- 

 ries broadly edged terminally with white; third to eighth primaries, 

 inclusive, with a large basal patch of white, about 17. 78 mm. long, on 

 fourth and fifth primaries, the outer web of first wholly black; second, 

 third, fourth, and fifth primaries narrowly edged with white beyond 

 their emarginations; two outermost tail-feathers with a large white 

 patch at end of inner webs;^ upper tail-coverts black, broadly tipped 

 with white; thighs dusky, the feathers margined with olive-yellowish; 

 maxilla black, mandible dusky (apparently plumbeous in life); legs 

 and feet dusky horn-color; wing, 116.84:; tail (much worn at tip), 

 101.60; culmen, 25.91; depth of bill at base, 19.05; tarsus, 25.4:0; 

 middle toe, 20.32.' 



Immature male. — Above nmch more varied with black, the feathers 

 of the head and hindneck black medially and feathers of the rump 

 black tipped with orange. (Salvin and Godman.) 



Highlands of Guatemala (Volcan de Santa Maria, near Quzelte- 

 nango; Villanueva). 



Pheucikms awantiacus Salvin and Godman, Ibis, ser. 6, iii, Apr., 1891, 272 

 (Volcan de Santa Maria, Guatemala; coll. Salvin and Godman) . 



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PHEUCTICUS TIBIALIS Baird. 



IRAZi} GROSBEAK. 



Adults [sexes aUke). — Lores dusky; rest of head, neck, and chest 

 olive-yellow, the feathers with bases more or less duskj', those on the 



'The extent of these white tail-patches can not be measured on account of the 

 badly worn condition of the rectrices. 



'Description from a specimen in the collection of the Rev. St. Th. Heyde, from, 

 Villanueva, Guatemala. 



