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The general colour of all the species of Chlorophonia is a bright grass-green, and this 

 is one of the minor characteristics of the genus. 



Eight or nine species of Chlorophonia have been recognized, of which three (including 

 C. cyanodorsalis, of which we know so little) occur within our country, all of them being 

 peculiar to it. They are the largest members of the genus ; and have been separated 

 from the rest by Dr. Cabanis under the name of Acrocompsa. 



Of the five or six South-American species, C. viridis enjoys the widest range, 

 being found in Brazil and Bolivia as well as Ecuador ; and if C. longipennis prove 

 inseparable, it extends also into Colombia. In the latter country C. pretrii is found. 

 C.flavirostris, a bird as yet known by a single specimen, is from Ecuador. The almost 

 equally rare C. torrejoni, Tacz., is from North-eastern Peru. Lastly, C. frontalis is from 

 Venezuela, the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, and from Guiana. It will thus be seen 

 that, with the exception of C. viridis, all the South-American members of the genus 

 have a very restricted range. 



The same may be said of the species of Central America. C. occipitalis is restricted 

 to Southern Mexico and Guatemala, and C. callaphrys to Costa Eica and the adjoining 

 parts of Panama. C. cyanodorsalis is attributed to Guatemala ; but of this species we 

 know as yet hardly anything. 



1. Chlorophonia occipitalis. 



Euphonia occipitalis, DuBus, Esq. Orn. t. 14 ' ; Jard. Ibis, 1860, p. 103 '. 



Chlorophonia occipitalis, Bp. Rev. Zool. 1851, p. 138'; Cassin, U.S. Astr. Exp. ii. p. 182, t. 20. 



f. 2*; Scl. P.Z. S. 1856, p. 270 = ; 1857, p. 205 ^ 1859, p. 364 ^ 1864, p. 173"; Cat. Am. 



B. p. 55'; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 17"; Ex. Orn. p. 83, t. 42"; Sumichrast, Mem. 



Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 550'"; Lawr. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 18 '^ 



Laete viridis ; vertice et Bemitorque angusto postioo caeruleis, torque pectorali nigricanti-oastaneo ; abdomine 

 medio efc crisso flavissimis, hypoctondriis viridibus ; rostro obscure corneo ; pedibus corylinis. Long, tota 

 5-0, alee 3'0, caudse 1'7, tarsi 0*75. 



5 viridis ; vertice et torque cervicali postico caeruleis sicut in mari sed subtus multo obscurior et torque pectorali 

 castaneo nullo. (Descr. maris et feminae ex Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 



Av. Jiomot. omnino inornato, subtus sordide viridescens. (Descr. exempl. ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico 13 4^ Jalapa (Salle ^, de Oca''), Valley of Mexico {White ^), Orizaba 

 (•Botteri^), hot region of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast^^), Gineta Mountains {Sumi- 

 chrasf^^) ; Guatemala ^ lo^ Coban, Choo^um [0. S.^ & F. D. 6.). 



This pretty species does not seem to have been known to the earlier collectors in 

 Mexico (Bullock, Deppe, and others), and it was not until 1847 that a female specimen 

 placed in the Brussels Museum was described by DuBus, and figured in his ' Esquisses 

 Ornithologiques ' i. Since then the bird has been found from time to time in Southern 

 Mexico, but chiefly in the State of Vera Cruz, where Sumichrast tells us it is a bird of the 

 hot region, shifting its quarters in search of food to places elevated as high as 4000 feet 

 above the sea. M. Boucard never seems to have met with it in the State of Oaxaca ; but 



