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M'Leannan did not meet with it on the Panama Eailway, but we have a pair shot by 

 Mr. Hughes at Paraiso Station. At Chepo Arce only obtained us a single female 

 specimen, but we have no hesitation in referring it to this species. 



b'. Suhtus omnino lutea. 

 6. Euphouia hirimdinacea. 



Euphonia hirundinacea, Bp. P. Z. S. 1837, p. 117'; Scl. P. Z. S. 1854, p. 98 (partim) ' ; 

 1856, pp. 278 ^ 303 ' ; 1859, pp. 364 ', 378 ' ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 16 ' ; P. Z. S. 1870, 

 p. 836'; Lawr. Aun. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 98"; Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 4, p. 18"; Sumi- 

 chrast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 550 " ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 180 ". 



Phonasca hirundinacea, Cab. J. f. Om. 1860, p. 334"; 1861, p. 91 ". 



Supra nitens cseruleo-nigra, loris et capitis lateribus dorso concoloribus ; fronte et pileo ad oculorum medium et 

 corpore subfcus a mento usque ad crissum luteis ; cauda nigra, reotrioibus duabus utrinque externis macula 

 magna in pogonio interne et apicem attingente albis ; rostro nigro ; pedibus plumbeis. Long, tota 4-0, alaB 

 2-5, eaudse 1-45, rostri a rictu 0-45, tarsi 0-6. (Descr. maris ex Chootum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



$ supra olivacea, alls et cauda fusco-nigris extus olivaceo marginatis ; subtus griseo-albida, abdomine medio 

 pallidiore, hypoehondriis olivaceo-flavis. (Descr. feminae ex Vera Paz. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. Mexico, Cordova {SalU % Jalapa {de Oca ^), Playa Vicente (Boucard ^), hot region 

 of Vera Cruz (Sumichrast ^^), Tierra caliente of Atlantic side (le Strange), Guichi- 

 covi (Sumichrast ^^j, Northern Yucatan (Gaumer) ; Beitish Hondukas, Belize 

 [Blancaneux), Corosal [Roe) ; Guatemala ( Velasquez de Leon ^, Constancia ^ '^'^), 

 Poctun, Choctum, Cohan, Cahabon {0. S. & F. I). G.) ; Honduras, San Pedro 

 (G. M. Whitely^); Nicaeagua, Hato Viejo [Baxter); Costa RicaI^, Turrialba 

 (Carmiol % ArcS), San Juan (v. Frantzius ^). 



Owing to Bonaparte having described a young male of this species a good deal of 

 discussion has arisen respecting it ; but Mr. Sclater's determination of Bonaparte's bird 

 and his fuller description have considerably lessened the difficulties surrounding its 

 proper title. We are unable, however, to follow Mr. Sclater in his definition of the 

 range of E. hirundinacea, a bird which we have not been able to trace beyond Costa 

 Eica. The State of Panama and Colombia, though both are included by Mr. Sclater 

 within the range of F. hirundinacea, appear, from the evidence before us, to be occupied 

 by E. laniirostris to the exclusion of the allied species. Then, again, the bird figured 

 in the ' Proceedings ' of the Zoological Society for 1854 ^ as the male of E. hirundinacea 

 is, we feel sure, that sex of E. laniirostris, as indeed Mr. Sclater himself subsequently 

 admitted. The drawing was probably taken from Captain Kellett's Chiriqui example. 



Though E. hirundinacea is very like F. laniirostris, they may be readily recognized 

 from one another, the male of the former having less yellow on the head, and the 

 white of the inner web of the outer tail-feathers continuing further to the end of the 

 feather. The female of E. hirundinacea has the whole of the middle of the under- 

 parts greyish white, whereas this part in E. laniirostris is yellowish olive. 



