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met with by several travellers ; and Prof. Sumichrast tells us ^ that it is found in the 

 upper extremity of the temperate region at an elevation of about 5000 feet above the 

 sea. He further supposes that V. jaulchellus, a bird he never met with himself, has a 

 similar range ; but in this he is doubtless in error, as will be seen in the account of that 

 species. In Guatemala we only found it in the oak-forests of the Volcan de Fuego at 

 an elevation of about 6000 to 7000 feet. Here it is by no means common, specimens 

 only now and then being brought in by our Indian hunters. From this source we 

 obtained the female described above, which shows that there exists a slight sexual 

 difference in the plumage in this species. 



Vireolanius melitophrys probably was first represented in the Berlin Museum under 

 Lichtenstein's MS. name Lanius chrysophrys ^^ ; but no description of it was published 

 till 1850, when Bonaparte gave its diagnosis 2, adopting the name proposed for it by 

 the late Vicomte Du Bus, who had a plate drawn of it from a specimen in the Brussels 

 Museum, which was to be the 26th plate of his unfinished ' Esquisses Ornithologiques '^. 



b. Subtus viridis, gulafiava. 



2. Vireolanius pulchellus. 



Vireolanius pulchellus, Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 13'; Ex. Orn. p. 15, t. 8"; Salv. Ibis, 1861, 

 p. 147'; 1872, p. 314*; P. Z. S. 1870, p. 184'; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. H. vii. p. 468 ^ 

 ix. p. 97'; Baird, Rev. Am. B. i. p. 397'. 



Lsete psittaceo-viridis, abdomiBe flavescentiore, pileo cyaneo, gutture flavo ; rostro plumbeo, tomiis albicantibua ; 



pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota 5-5, alse 2-9, caudse 1'9, rostri a riotu 0'8, tarsi 0-85. (Descr. maris ex 



Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 

 Femina man similis coloribus forsan obscurioribus et stria infra oculos flavescente distinguenda. (Descr. 



femina ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hah. Mexico, Mirador (Sartorius ^) ; Guatemala {Skinner ^), Choctum ^, mountains of 

 Rasche ^, Savana Grande, and Volcan de Agua above San Diego {O.S. & F. B. G.) ; 

 NiCAEAGUA, Chontales {Belt^); Costa Rica, Angostura {Carmiol'' % Orosi (Carmiol) ; 

 Panama, Calovevora ^ and Calobre (ArcS), line of railway (M'Leannan ^ ^). 



As wall be seen above, Vireolanius pulchellus has a wide range throughout our 

 region, being doubtless found wherever the warmer tropical forests extend. In such 

 situations in Guatemala all our specimens were obtained, the bird being very common 

 in the neighbourhood of the Indian rancheria of Choctum. The specimen from the 

 mountains of Rasche was obtained at an elevation of about 2000 to 3000 feet ; and this 

 height is probably the extreme limit of the range of the species in altitude, whence it 

 descends to the sea-level in Nicaragua and Panama, 



When the article on this species was published in 'Exotic Ornithology,' it was 

 stated that the range of V. pulchellus in Guatemala was restricted to the eastern 

 forests; we have since discovered it in the forest-clad slopes which extend to the 



