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Blamaneaux) ; Guatemala {Velasquez de Leon^^, Constancia^^), Peten (Lei/- 

 land 14), Chisec, Choctum, Coban, Cahabon, Tactic, Duenas i^, Ketalhuleu and 

 Patio Bolas {0. S. & F. D. G.) ; Hondubas {Dyson 2) ; Omoa {Lei/land i*), San 

 Pedro {G. M. Whitely »), Lake Yojoa {Taylor is). 



This is a purely Central- American species, allied to the South-American T.palmarum, 

 the place of which it takes in Southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, 



The first specimens sent to Europe were those of Deppe, who obtained them at 

 Jalapa in Mexico, and which were very briefly described by Lichtenstein in his list of 

 Deppe's duplicates i. Since then T. ahbas has been found in abundance in Southern 

 Mexico by all subsequent collectors. Sumichrast says that it is an inhabitant of both 

 the hot and temperate regions, its movements being determined by the ripening of the 

 fruits '^. In Guatemala we found the same to be the case, and that its range in altitude 

 exceeded that of Tanagra cana, as it was frequently to be found at an elevation of 

 5000 feet, especially in orchards ^. 



A nest found at Duenas in the month of May was a compact structure composed of 

 small twigs with a little wool, and lined with a few pieces of dead flag, fine roots, and 

 horse-hair. This is usually placed in a cypress or some thick-growing tree, in the 

 upper part of a branch about ten or twelve feet from the ground. The eggs, three in 

 number, are spotted or blotched with three shades of a reddish brown on a pale bluish- 

 grey ground i^. 



The name Tanagra vicarius given to this bird by Lesson in 1830, in his ' Centurie 

 Zoologique,' was based upon specimens from Mexico i^. In point of date this 

 description appeared close to that of Lichtenstein, but the latter has been more 

 generally adopted by subsequent writers. 



3. Tanagra palmarum. 



Tanagra palmarum, Weid, Reise n. Bras. ii. p. 76 ' ; Beitr. iii. p. 489 '; Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 234 ' ; 

 Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 397*; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 571 ' ; 1873, p. 263 »; 

 1879, pp. 500 ', 600'; v. Pelz. Om. Bras. p. 309°. 

 Tanagra olivascem, Licht. Verz. Doubl. p. 33 ". 



Tanagra melanoptera, " Hartl.,'' fide Scl. P. Z. S. 1856, p. 235"; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1864, 

 p. 350"; Salv. P.Z. S. 1867, p. 138 ''; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 99"; v. Frantz. J. f. 

 Om. 1869, p. 398 ''; v. Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 309 ''. 

 Intense oleaginea, interscapuHo obscuriore et cEsrulescente tincto, tectrioibus alamm majoribus viridescente lavatis, 

 capite fere concoloribus, minoribus oleagineo-CEerulescentibus ; alls et cauda nigro fuscis, iUis vix oUvaceo- 

 viridi limbatis; speculo alari et secundariis ad basin pallide oUvaceis; alis et cauda plumbeo-nigris 

 Long, tota 6-5, alse 3-8, caud^ 2-9, rostri a rictu 0-7, tarsi 0-7. (Descr. maris ex Paraiso Station, Panama. 

 Mus. nostr.) 

 5 man simiHs, sed coloribus omnibus paulo obscurioribus. 



Hah. Costa Eica, Santa Eosa, Angostura, Turrialba {v. Frantzius^S Carmiol^% 

 Tucurriqui {v. Frantzius ^\ ArcS) ; Vanaua, Santiago de Veraguas {Jrce i^), Lion- 



