656 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MCTSEUM. 



Southern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Cosamaloapan; Cordova) 

 Oaxaca (Choapam; Teotalcingo; Playa Vicente), and southward through 

 Guatemala and British Honduras to northern Honduras (Santa Ana). 



Pitylus poliogaster Du Bus, Bull. Ac. Roy. Belg., xiv, pt. 2, 1847, 105 (Guatemala- 

 Brussels Mus.); Rev. Zool., 1848, 245; Esquis. Orn., 1845?, pi. 22.— Sclatee' 

 Proc. Zool. Soo. Lond., 1856, 66 (monogr.; Cosamaloapan and Coi-dova, Vera 

 Cruz; Guatemala), 302 (Cordova); 1859, 376 (Choapam, Teotalcingo, and 

 Playa Vicente, Oaxaca) ^ Synop. Av. Tanagr., 1856, 4 (monogr.); Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 99 (Choctum, Guatemala; Mexico); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xi 

 1886, 307, part (Mexico; Choctum, Kamkhal, and Yaxcamnal, Guatemala; 

 Belize, British Honduras). — Salvin and Sclatee, Ibis, 1860, 32 (Cohan, Vera 

 Paz, Guatemala). — Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1870, 836 

 (San Pedro, Honduras). — Sumicheast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 548 

 (tierra caliente. Vera Cruz, up to 3,350 ft.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 333, part (Mexican, Guatemalan, British Hon- 

 duras, and Honduras references and localities ) . 



P-litylits} poliogaster Geay, Gen. Birds, App., 1849, 16.— Sclatee and Salvin, 

 Exotic Orn., pt. xi, 1869, 168, part (s. Mexico; Guatemala). 



[Pityliis] poliogaster Sclatee andSALViN, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 26, part (Mexico; 

 Guatemala) . 



Pitylus flavo-cinereus Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1848, 47 ("South Amer- 

 ica;" quotes "Loxia canadensis Linn., var. A., Lath., Gen. Hist., v, 282"). 



[^Caryothraustes} episcopus Bonapaete, Cohsp. Av., i, 1850, 504 (Cosamaloapan, 

 Vera Cruz; Berlin Mus., ex Fringilla episcopus Lichtenstein, manuscript). 



CARYOTHRAUSTES POLIOGASTER SCAPULARIS Ridgway. 

 LESSER BISHOP GROSBEAK. 



Similar to C. p. poliogaster but smaller, and with the scapulars and 

 lower back yellowish olive-green, like upper back, instead of slate- 

 gray like rump. 



Advlt male.— Length (skins), 152.40-175.26 (161.04); wing, 83.31- 

 87.88 (85.34); tail, 64.01-70.87 (68.33); exposed culmen, 16.00-16.76 

 (16.51); depth of bill at base, 12.45-13.21 (12.95); tarsus, 20.07-20.83 

 (20.57); middle toe, 13.97-14.73 (14.48).' 



Adult fmiale.— Length (skins), 144.78-172.72 (160.02); wing, 82.55- 

 88.39 (85.34); tail, 59.44-71.88 (66.55); exposed culmen, 15.24-17.27 

 (16.2.6); depthof bill at base, 12.19-12.95 (12.70); tarsus, 20.07-21.34 

 (20.83); middle toe, 13.21-15.24 (14.48).' 



Southern Honduras (Segovia River) to Isthmus of Panama. 



Pitylus poliogaster (not of Du Bus) Sclatee and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1864, 352 (Lion Hill, Panama E. R.).— Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 

 141 (Santa F6, Veragua) ; Ibis, 1872, 317 (Chontales, Nicaragua) .—La whence, 

 Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 102 (Angostura, Costa Rica) .-Nutting, Proc. 

 TJ. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 400 (Los Sdbalos, Nicaragua).— Sclatee, Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., xi, 1886, 307, part (Chontales; Tucurriqui, Costa Rica; Santiago 



'Five specimens. ^ Six specimens. 



