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duarum extemarum albis postiee rotundatis baud plumae apicem attingentibus ; femina quoque subtus 

 omnino olivaceo flavida baud medialiter cinerea distinguenda. 



Edb. Costa Rica, Angostura (Carmiol) ; Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui, Bugaba (ArcS), 

 David (Hicks % Chitra 9, Boquete de Chitra ^, Calovevora 9, Cordillera de Tole 12 

 (ArcS), Lion-Hill Station {M'Leannan'^ ^^), Paraiso Station {ffughes).—SovTR 

 Ameeica, to Colombia ^ 3, Ecuador, Peru 10, and Bolivia 1 2 3 4 5_ 



The gradual extension of our series of specimens of this Euphonia has convinced us 

 that Mr. Sclater's name E. crassirostris, which was founded on Colombian skins ^, is really 

 a synonym of d'Orbigny's title E. laniirostris, and that the bird ranges uninterruptedly 

 from Bolivia to Costa Eica. From this latter country, however, we have only a single 

 female skin to show its presence there. In the State of Panama it is abundant, and 

 quite supplants Euphonia hirundinacea, its more northern representative. 



Like E. hirundinacea this species is an inhabitant of low-lying hot districts, but 

 Mr. Simons observed it in the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta as high as 2700 feet 

 above the sea 3. 



b. Crissum castaneum. 

 9. Euphonia gouldi. 



Euphonia, sp., Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 303'. 



Euphonia gouldi, Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 66, t. 124 ^ p. 229 ' ; Scl. & Salv. Ibis, 1859, p. 17 * j Lawr. 



Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 98'; Sumiclirast, Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. i. p. 550°; Salv. Ibis, 



1860, p. 194''; 1872, p. 315'; v. Prantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 298°. 



Supra seneo-olivacea, fronte et pileo usque ad oculos luteis, loris obvaoeo-nigris, subtus gula et cervicis lateribus 

 olivaceis, ventre medio et crisso Isete castaneis, hypocbondriis olivaceis flavo intermixtis, rostro nigro, 

 pedibus obscure corylinis. Long, tota 4-0, ate 2'2, caudse 1-2, rostri a rictu 4-5, tarsi 0"65. 



5 supra mari similis, fronte et pileo antico castaneis, subtus olivacea, ventre medio flavescentiore, crisso sicut 

 in mari castaneo. (Desor. maris et feminae ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Hab. Mexico [Salle^), Santecomapan [JBoucard^), hot region of Vera Cruz (Sumi- 

 chrast ^) ; British HoNDvnAS^Belize (Blancaneaucc); Guatemala^ (Skinner^), Coban^, 

 Choctum, and Kamkhal (0. S. c& F.D. G.) ; Nicaragua, Mosquito coast {Bell% 

 Chontales(.2«^^ s) ; Costa EicA, Angostura ^ 9, Pacuar ^ ^, Dota Mountains ^ », Valza 

 [Carmiol, v. Frantzius), Tucurriqui [v. Frantzius^). 



As will be seen above, this pretty species enjoys a wide range throughout our 

 region, from Southern Mexico to Costa Eica. In the State of Panama, in the rest 

 of the isthmus, and in the northern parts of Colombia, its place seems to be taken by 

 E. fulvicrissa, the female of which much resembles that of the present bird, but the 

 male has the upper parts of the steel-blue colour so prevalent in this genus ; both 

 sexes, however, in E. gouldi and in E. fulvicrissa have the crissum of a light chestnut 

 or tawny colour. 



Euphonia gouldi first came into Mr. Sclater's possession in 1856, a specimen being 



