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species. Salvin once found in a collection of Guatemalan birds what he believed 

 to be a second example of this bird, but it was not to be obtained, and has since 

 passed out of sight. 



We are quite ignorant to what part of Guatemala this fine species belongs, and the 

 fact of its not occurring in the large collections made in that country shows that it, 

 like Calliste cabanisi, must inhabit a limited district seldom if ever visited by native 

 collectors. 



Lesson's name, B. affinis, may belong to this species. The habitat of this bird was 

 first stated to be Mexico ^, but afterwards Colombia*. 



The species is a very distinct one, as the figure now given of the type, in Mr. Sclater's 

 collection, will show. 



Note. — Bhamphoccelus nigrigularis of the region of the upper Amazons has been 

 mentioned by Bonaparte (Consp. Av. i. p. 242) as occurring in Mexico, an obvious 

 error. 



PHLOGOTHEAUPIS. 



Phlogothraupis, Sclater & Salvin, Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 155 (1873). (Type Tanagra sanguino- 

 lenta, Lesson.) 



The single species contained in this genus was for a long time placed in Bhampho- 

 ccelus, with which it has much in common. The structure of the bill, however, 

 warrants its separation, as it has none of the peculiar swelling towards the base of the 

 mandible, which is so marked a feature in Bhamphoccelus. The sexes, too, in Phlogo- 

 thraupis are coloured exactly alike, and this is not so in the allied genus. 



The range of P. sanguinolenta, as will be seen below, is restricted to Central America 

 and Southern Mexico. The form is, however, absent from the State of Panama. 



1. Phlogothraupis sanguinolenta. 



Tanagra [Tachyphonus) sanguinolentus, Less. Cent. Zool. p. 107, t. 39 ^ 



Ramphocelus sanguinolentus, Sol. P.Z. S. 1856, pp. 132^ 303'; 1859, pp. 364*, 377'; Sol. & Salv. 



Ibis, 1859, p. 16" J P. Z. S. 1867, p. 278 ''; 1870, p. 836'; Moore, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 59'; 



Sumiehrast, Mem. Bost, Soc. N. H. i. p. 549 '° ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. ix. p. 99 " ; 



v. Frantz. J. f. Orn. 1869, p. 299='; Salv. Ibis, 1872, p. 316". 

 Phlogothraupis sanguinolenta, Sol. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 155 ". 



Velutino-nigra, pileo postico cum torque cervicali et peotore conjunctis necnon tectricibus subalaribus, crisso et 

 uropygio coccineis ; rostro plumbescenti-albo ; pedibua nigricanti-fuscis. Long, tota 7*2, al» 3-5, caudae 

 3'3, rostri a riotu 0"8, tarsi 0-8. 



$ mari omnino similis. (Descr. maris et feminsB ex Choctum, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. Mexico 1, hot region of Vera Cruz {Sumiehrast ^^, le Strange), Valle Eeal 

 {Deppe^), Cordova {SalU% Jalapa {de Oca% Playa Vicente (Boucard^) ; Beitish 

 Honduras, Belize (Blancaneaux), Belize river {0. S. & F. D. G.); Guatemala, 

 Peten {Leyland% Cohan {Delattre^), Achil near Coban, Choctum, Cahabon, 

 yzabal(C>. S. & P. D. G.); Honduras, Chamelican river {Byson^^), San Pedro 



